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Agenda 

Overview of Purpose of Meeting
- Judith Fleenor, Director of Strategic Development

Review of Origins and Purpose of ToIP
- John Jordan, Executive Director

Discussions of the Strategic Imperatives of ToIP

Open Discussion of next steps

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Dir. John Jordan shared  shared his personal experience and journey by detailing that it’s important to develop technology with the understanding that it will be deployed in the human social context. He believes the core fundamentals of the effort. He went on to say that one of our Core Principles is that we aim to create an open community with this as a Core principle. Dir. Fleenor asked for feedback and Steering Member Chris Bucannan said Buchanan said he believes the why is the fact that when we’re talking about trust, we’re talking about knowing things and the decentralized nature of decentralized identity lends itself to horrific things potentially. He continued further with, if we don’t have someone to say “this is good”, then we don’t have anything standing in front of efficiency. He believes we need to highlight this and advocate for this on behalf of ToIP. 

Dir. John Jordan stated that view can inform some of our communication efforts to engage the community and then Steering Member Drummond Reed said  said that the idea of putting human needs in the context of governance, one thing that we are known for as an org is that we’re tackling the governance half of the equation and problem. Reed mentioned he's a little concerned that there's an idea that the technology part is being driven by other organizations and that we’re seeing signs within the market that there is traction.

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WHAT are we trying to accomplish?

Dir. John Jordan believes that in order to have a system that globally enables digital trust at a globe scale, (i.e. car industry, steam/electric/open bodies/wheels, etc.)  a variety of factors, there was a dominant model that was created, companies move from feature discovery to production. When this shift happens, that’s what we’re trying to achieve. How can we as an organization, encourage the establishment, that allows us to create digital relationships on the internet that aligns with our principles. We must include tech choices and governance model choices so that when we gain adoption, we have to help establish digital trust.

Steering Member Chris Buchanan said  said he’s appreciates the car as an example and he believes the ecosystem idea, he likes to compare us to the NTSB National Traffic Safety Bureau, “they don’t make better cars, but they make cars better”

Dir. John Jordan, proposed the question, who are the organizations we need to bring into the conversation? He went on to say that within various industries, we want this to be adopted by and large because we believe the model is better for our citizens because they can conduct their data with easy and safety. Steering Committee member Reed saidmember Drummond Reed  said, I would like to drill into some implications of what the “dominant design” strategy means for the ToIP stack.

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Steering Committee member Drummond Reed Drummond yes, i’m optimistic about the opportunity for us to get into…maybe it s future SC meeting about the big picture, this is what we’re trying to get to. Design principles document helped us make progress. 

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• Design the stack within stack, have discussion of how are we tackling destructive path and when are we intentionally designing in the stack, this is how we connect with the legacy system.
  • I would go so far as to say that “it is the power — and market value — of the trusted data ToIP Core will unlock that will drive adoption”.
• Drummond Reed, 1. What is the optimal design of stack? 2. What is the body of work on how to optimize/simply for integration? 
I would go so far as to say that “it is the power — and market value — of the trusted data ToIP Core will unlock that will drive adoption”.
• Steve McCown, built an interface to dropbox that would encryption and description on the way down. That allowed me to integrate with major systems with his own touch to it. I believe we need to integrate with what’s there but we need to stay focused on what the stack is and how it works. Also reach out to folks who are working with current/legacy systems and show them how they can implement
• John Jordan , be careful of false dichotomy, decentralized vs centralized. That’s not going away and it’s not at odds with Self sovereign identity. We need to be clear about this overall
• Bryn Robinson-Morgan, Agree that ToIP stack is the ToIP stack - it is the points of integration with legacy and future stacks that is important
• Chris Buchanan, agree with Drummond Reed, we have to start with reverence architecture 
• Wenjing, comparison of our stack vs existing stack, we are trying to do the minimum possible to achieve our principles. We want to do the very minimum to achieve the goals, so that everyone can adopt and put work on top so that enables easy adoption.