Discussion of progress on the working draft of the ToIP Technical Architecture Spec and work on issue resolution.
- Wenjing proposed to divide our issues into three buckets
- The first bucket is "meta-issues" about what the document should cover.
- We began with discussion about a diagram suggested by Tim.
- Wenjing proposed that this spec is a technology architecture spec that only covers that subject—it doesn't get into specific protocols yet (that will come in a subsequent spec). It also doesn't cover larger questions of how to explain the stack from a conceptual and policy standpoint.
- Drummond agreed and described a way to think about three levels: conceptual, architecture, protocol specifics.
- Tim agreed about the specifics of this document, and the need for a different document the regulators, policymakers and business people.
- Drummond suggested that we formally name that other deliverable.
- ACTION: Tim Bouma and Drummond Reed to prepare a proposed name and scope for this other deliverable and document it in a wiki page for next week's meeting.
- Neil Thomson suggested that we start a "catalog" of our other deliverables. Drummond agreed that we should list them on the wiki page for this TF.
- Allan had brought up test cases.
- ACTION:
- Wenjing also suggested that use cases need to be added. We have discussed passwordless authentication and other aspects of digital identity.
- ACTION: All members of the Technology Architecture TF need to add their use case to the Google doc.
- Wenjing's second bucket is "intermediaries". His proposal is that we limit the term to the relaying of messages and not other functions that should be considered supporting systems.
- Jo Spencer has expressed strong views about intermediaries.
- Drummond suggested that we discuss that question with Jo in the APAC meeting.
- Wenjing suggested that the term should be defined that the role of an intermediary.
- Sam suggested that intermediaries play no role in the trust basis.
- Wenjing's third bucket is interoperability.
- We also briefly discussed Kaliya's comment about the ToIP stack being very "Hyperledger Aries architecture focused" and thus not friendly to other "stacks".
- ACTION: Drummond Reed to see if Kaliya would like to present about this perspective in an upcoming meeting.