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Meetings are every 2 weeks on a Tuesday at 9am EDT on the following zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97104385554?pwd=OWJWMWVoZ0Nyai9BL3diMFMwSXlrdz09.  (see the ToIP Calendar for details). 

Tuesday

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11th January 2022

9am EDT = 14.00 London = 15.00 CET = 6am PT = 18.30 India, zoom link

Meeting Recording: 

Attendees :  Nicky Hickman, Ekene Ezike, Will Abramson; Jeff Aresty; Maha Sroor; Frednand Furia; Scott Perry ; Clayton Bond; Wesley Furrow; Johannes Wedenig

Agenda:

1. Antitrust Policy Notice: Attendees are reminded to adhere to the meeting agenda and not participate in activities prohibited under antitrust and competition laws. Only members of ToIP who have signed the necessary agreements are permitted to participate in this activity beyond an observer role.
2. Intro's to New Members
3. Updates
   1. Domain Modelling is now on pause and completed to a point, all the outputs and information are available here on the wiki page.  
   2. Risk Assessment (Fred)
4. Reviewing the Governance Framework which has been heavily updated in the last few days so that 
   1. Aligning everything behind Yoma's core values of Privacy, Personal Self-Development, Fairness & Inclusion, Community and Trust 
   2. Including text that is easy for youth to read throughout the document
   3. Aligning with the revised ToIP meta-model
   4. Proposing a way that the document could be machine readable
   5. Revising the list of controlled documents and assigning owners.

(Recommended that for this meeting you focus on 

a) How can we make the document machine readable?

b) What are the technical requirements?)   

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1. Reviews & approvals - Yoma Rules! the Interim Governance Framework for the Yoma Ecosystem.  This is the link to the folder containing the principal document and the controlled documents
   1. Further reviews / approvals 
      
      1. Youth group (13/01)
      2. OP's & Yoma elders (by end Jan)
      3. EFWG 
      4. SC

3. Next Steps

• Supporting proposed ‘Interim Youth Council’ with Ekene Ezike
• Publishing a paper with Maha Sroor and other researchers at the University of Jyväskylä on use of the domain modelling with Yoma as a case study
• Application for funding as part of a Digital Ethics Hub to research lean governance and the methodology used in developing Yoma Rules!
• Finalising the glossary with CTWG
• Potentially a Yoma TF in HXWG for the ‘Human Experience of Governance’

4.  AOB

Tuesday 14th December 2021

9am EDT = 14.00 London = 15.00 CET = 6am PT = 18.30 India, zoom link

Meeting Recording: 

Attendees :  Nicky Hickman; Frednand Furia

Agenda:

1. Antitrust Policy Notice: Attendees are reminded to adhere to the meeting agenda and not participate in activities prohibited under antitrust and competition laws. Only members of ToIP who have signed the necessary agreements are permitted to participate in this activity beyond an observer role.
2. New Intro's and Updates
3. Revisions to the Governance Framework  based on feedback from the Youth group (x2) and from the not so youthful group
   1. Marketplace & Tokens remain out of scope!  We have to be lean, and we have to finish this iteration.
   2. Fairness and equity, cooperation vs competition
   3. One account one user
   4. Governing Parties Model incl. Youth Council
   5. Alternative Dispute Resolution Process
   6. Credentials
   7. Guardianship Arrangements
   8. Trust Registries
   9. Terms Wiki & Glossary 
4. Finalising the GF Plan
   1. 18th December issue the final version
   2. No meeting on 28th December
   3. 1st Week Jan - review session with the Youth Group & Risk Assessment review following GF changes
   4. By Friday 7th January - ALL final revisions - conversion to full ToIP format a nd ready for this group's
   5. approval at Yoma TF meeting on 11th Jan
   6. Approval from Ecosystem Foundry WG 14th Jan
5. AOB

Tuesday 30th November 2021

9am EDT = 14.00 London = 15.00 CET = 6am PT = 18.30 India, zoom link

Meeting Recording: 

Attendees :  Nicky Hickman; Maha Sroor;  @Aamir Abdualah, ; Wesley Furrow; Scott

Agenda:

1. Antitrust Policy Notice: Attendees are reminded to adhere to the meeting agenda and not participate in activities prohibited under antitrust and competition laws. Only members of ToIP who have signed the necessary agreements are permitted to participate in this activity beyond an observer role.
2. New Intro's and Updates
   1. Scott Lewis: S/W engineer by trade, been working on decentralized digital identity for a few weeks
3. Feedback from Youth (Ekene)

• 1. All participants concurred and reaffirmed their support for a judiciary arm to the Yoma community
• 2. Two members proposed a rule that would ensure one Yoma account to one user.
• 3. The translation of the GF to other languages was recommended.
• 4. A participant emphasized the need to ensure Yoma community members read, understand and agree to the rules before enforcement.
• 5. A participant advocated for the following:
• a. Incentives commensurate to the level of difficulty of the task/challenge.
• b. Unbiased and equal opportunities for members, that is, not location, gender, race, and religion specific.
• c. Equity within the Yoma community.

4.  Feedback from OP's & Youth key points

• 1 member 1 CV
  • Scott: = 1 member 1 vote challenge in DAO - use human reputation systems, penalties for fraud 
  • Aamir: These are the two big ones acting as a blockchain court - https://kleros.io/?ref=hackernoon.com & https://anj.aragon.org/?ref=hackernoon.com#/dashboard
  • Scott = use of AI to detect fraud patterns
  • Nicky = use ticketing
  • Maha = selective disclosure can be used instead of multiple CV's
  • Wes = natural incentive to build one great CV - as long as it's not multiple ZLTO for one opportunity
• Want a view for the future with a GA in place - judiciary question - youth council idea, also representation from other stakeholders (Scott experience from Church group - empower them and get out of the way) - Nicky & Ekiene to discuss with youth group. (can be gamified, staked to blockchain).
• Wording around cooperation vs competition
• Equity vs fairness

5.  AOB

Tuesday 16th November 2021

9am EDT = 14.00 London = 15.00 CET = 6am PT = 18.30 India, zoom link

Meeting Recording: https://zoom.us/rec/share/2rYxvjAh9rpzfouDQwviWbCF4JrOldyjMzqDEQvaZXA0Lutnj9YEeS5EUX6T1Pbx.LM5vS8dG0m6iI7OO

Attendees :  Nicky Hickman; Taija Kolehmainen; Maha Sroor; Lohan Spies ; Ekene Ezike; Frednand Furia

Agenda:

1. Antitrust Policy Notice: Attendees are reminded to adhere to the meeting agenda and not participate in activities prohibited under antitrust and competition laws. Only members of ToIP who have signed the necessary agreements are permitted to participate in this activity beyond an observer role.
2. Updates & New Intro's:
   1. Yoma workshops last week highlighted the importance of Green Yoma
   2. Taija developing the domain modelling language.  Now development phase, automating some parts within tool.  Yoma first chance to see tool in action.   Studying JYU doing IS masters program.  Lohan to get the EGC tool so that we can explore code generation opportunities and play with updated Yoma model. https://gitlab.com/jyu-startup-lab/ecosystem-governance-compass-jyu;  Looking at ways of automating governance and generating code through changes in the tool as they flow into code.  Taija & Maha meeting with the DSM expert.  Brainstorm ideas to operationalise governance.
   3. Maha writing a paper on the tool and the Yoma experience as part of her masters studies.
   4. Ekene Ezike - Intern with Yoma been working on the HX & GF to get youth feedback on GF.
3. V0.2 of the Yoma Rules (Interim Governance Framework)
   1. Awaiting FB from Youth and OPs - Nicky to arrange with Yoma team.
   2. Populating our terms wiki, see our glossary here:  JYU also created a tool, we created our listing for the modeling tool. I will compare yours and ours for the new development phase: https://gitlab.com/jyu-startup-lab/ecosystem-governance-compass-jyu/-/blob/main/glossary.md
   3. Technical Requirements update will abramson has made comments and updates, lohan reviewing
   4. Dealing with gaps:  Gap with Credentials EGF not full stack - but OP's start as issuers in start of January on Yoma Platform.
   5. Remove LYC's from GF.
   6. Dispute resolution
   7. Translation to ToIP template
4. Retrospective - To next time
   1. Here are some slides to remind us of what we've done
   2. Here is a link to our lean governance MiroBoard for a quick retrospective

Wednesday 20th October 2021

9am EDT = 14.00 London = 15.00 CET = 6am PT = 18.30 India, zoom link

Attendees :  Nicky Hickman;  Will Abramson Frednand Furia Wesley Furrow; Aamir Abdullah

Agenda:

1. Antitrust Policy Notice: Attendees are reminded to adhere to the meeting agenda and not participate in activities prohibited under antitrust and competition laws. Only members of ToIP who have signed the necessary agreements are permitted to participate in this activity beyond an observer role.
2. Updates & New Intro's:
3. V0.2 of the Yoma Rules (Interim Governance Framework)
   1. Reviews from Drummond Reed& Rieks Joostenwere extremely thorough and very helpful, resulted in a restructure (again) back to core metamodel with various sets of requirements back in controlled documents
   2. Risk Assessment completed by Frednand Furia
   3. Stakeholder review sessions with Youth and Opportunity Providers scheduled for this week.
   4. Still a gap around dispute resolution - we are asking Youth and OP's - it would be good to have options
4. Lean Governance Approach 
   1. Miro board link
   2. Has not worked in the way we had hoped (ie 1 GF only) this is very much a Layer 4 GF
   3. Do we need to create a 'backlog' for future iterations of the GF
      1. Including Trust Registries
      2. Layer 3 governance framework for credentials
      3. Layer 2 governance framework for providers.
   4. Establishing metrics - how will the stakeholders know that the GF is being correctly administered?
   5. Doing a retrospective next session but one.
5. AOB?

Tuesday 5th October 2021

9am EDT = 14.00 London = 15.00 CET = 6am PT = 18.30 India, zoom link

Attendees :  Nicky Hickman;  Jeff Aresty;  Frednand Furia; P Subra; Maha Sroor; Johannes Wedenig;; Wesley Furrow; Gary de Beer

Agenda:

1. Antitrust Policy Notice: Attendees are reminded to adhere to the meeting agenda and not participate in activities prohibited under antitrust and competition laws. Only members of ToIP who have signed the necessary agreements are permitted to participate in this activity beyond an observer role.
2. Updates & New Intro's: 
   1. Jeff - Founder & President of Internet Bar, working in I4A space for some years from legal perspective
   2. Fred - Trust Assurance based in Dar es Salam in Tanzania - audit & compliance - also part of Sovrin GFWG
   3. Maha - Masters Student at University of Jvlaskya (finland) - modelled yoma ecosystem - from Egypt.  Yoma is a
   4. Subra - standford cyber-knowledge R&D, interested in decentralized ecosystems & their impact on society at large.  
   5. Sankarshan - Interest in GF for identity & digital systems
3. V0.2 of the Yoma Rules (Interim Governance Framework)  Now ready for stakeholder review with the following ToDo's
   1. Move to ToIP document standard.  
   2. Ensure terms consistency and add the definition of the term after it’s first use or use the ecosystem diagram to define the terms
   3. Risk Assessment, review xls and re-appraise given Rules, identify policies / requirements that treat the risk
      1. Meeting today at 14.30 UTC to x-check
   4. Consider how /if each requirement is checked / enforced
   5. Legal Agreements Review (Aamir, Jeff & Aebha input requested)
      1. here’s a gap around disputes – not sure what to do or where to put it. - could use ODR as tech, but still need to resolve the structure / law etc
      2. No involvement of legal jurisdiction in the normal course of things unless there are legal breaches
      3. Question for stakeholder reviews
   6. Youth Participant Review (Ekene & Clayton arranging)
   7. Opportunity Provider Reivew (Wes arranging)
   8. Gov Stack WG review (Scott & Drummond reviewing)
   9. Concepts & Terminology WG review (e.g., alignment w/eSSIF lab models)
4. HXWG meetingThursday 7th October at a bright and breezy 7.00 PT= 14.00 UTC = 16.00 CAT on this zoom.
   https://zoom.us/j/99429712733?pwd=K214bTM4cG54YzZYVnZCL1I5MEdQQT09.  Alta Nel & Ekene Ezike from the Yoma team will be presenting Yoma persona and UX for SSI
5. Next Steps
   1. Reviews / comments and feedback by Friday 15th of October 
   2. Then I will consolidate input for our next  TF meeting on Tuesday 19th October,
   3. Then ToIP process.  Once TF is happy with a 'frozen version', goes to EFWG then take to Steering Committee.  Nicky to catch Judith & Karl to arrange.
   4. Yoma 'handover' process.??
6. AOB 

Tuesday 21st September 2021

9am EDT = 14.00 London = 15.00 CET = 6am PT = 18.30 India, zoom link

Attendees :  Nicky Hickman; Will Abramson;   Clayton Bond, Frednand Furia sankarshan; Lohan Spies ; Wesley Furrow; Johannes Wedenig; Aamir Abdullah

Agenda:

1. Antitrust Policy Notice: Attendees are reminded to adhere to the meeting agenda and not participate in activities prohibited under antitrust and competition laws. Only members of ToIP who have signed the necessary agreements are permitted to participate in this activity beyond an observer role.
2. Updates
   1. Human Experience WG have agreed to support us in developing the HX Controlled Document, we have sessions planned with Yoma's UX team.  Here is a link to the presentation.  Here is a link to the meeting.  We will also be doing a youth feedback session with a group in Nigeria in October.  Add names of those who want to join these sessions.  (Wesley Furrow, Will Abramson, Fred Furia).  Not on critical path.
   2. Recommended listening Lohan's interview with Northern Block - a great insight into Yoma now and in the future.
   3. Comments / additions in the Governance Framework
      1. Clayton: added EVRs to the Business Requirements section of the GF - bringing into the GF.  
      2. Lohan: added the technical standards / requirements
      3. Keep it simple reduce controlled documents
      4. Reviewed basic mechanisms (complaints, disputes, participation in rules changes).
3. Review RA to identify areas for Governance
   1. See comments in the worksheet.
4. Finalising the GF  - please set aside time next week to review the document.  Nicky will send out a version for reviews and feedback on Monday 27th September. 
5. Next Meeting Tuesday 5th October - Final version - ready for review with internal ToIP experts, Youth Group and workshop w/ Opportunity Providers.
6. AOB

Tuesday 7th September 2021

9am EDT = 14.00 London = 15.00 CET = 6am PT = 18.30 India, zoom link

Attendees :  Nicky Hickman; Maha Sroor, Darrell O'Donnell, Lohan SpiesFrednand FuriaWesley Furrow, Clayton Bond

Agenda:

1. Antitrust Policy Notice: Attendees are reminded to adhere to the meeting agenda and not participate in activities prohibited under antitrust and competition laws. Only members of ToIP who have signed the necessary agreements are permitted to participate in this activity beyond an observer role.
2. Updates
   1. Domain Modelling is now on pause and completed to a point, all the outputs and information are available here on the wiki page. and here in Gitlab
   2. There is also a session which we did for DIF Africa which outlines what we have done so far.    You can see the presentation here.
   3. Risk Assessment (Fred)  - some gaps in the worksheet (e.g. credential registry, risk treatment still unfilled, review to identify areas of risk that need to be covered in the GF)
3. Reviewing the Governance Framework
   1. Aligning everything behind Yoma's core values of Privacy, Personal Self-Development, Fairness & Inclusion, Community and Trust 
   2. Including text that is easy for youth to read throughout the document
   3. Aligning with the revised ToIP meta-model
   4. Revising the list of controlled documents
   5. GAPS - technical requirements
4. No need for Interim GA - may be needed in the future depending on operating model.  Time constraints - purpose of GA in the interim.
   1. Only risk is associated with new opportunity providers that are not part of trusted group then might be an issue if there is a dispute
   2. Agree to delay disputes until next V1
5. Next Steps
   1. Finalising the draft by 21st
   2. Human Experience Controlled Doc
   3. Glossary and terms wiki
   4. Public Review period
      1. ToIP Community review last week of September.
      2. Wider Yoma Community - 1x Youth Group, 1x Opportunity Provider / other stakeholders (October)

Tuesday 10th August 2021

9am EDT = 14.00 London = 15.00 CET = 6am PT = 18.30 India, zoom link

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