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The mission of  the TSWG Technology Architecture Task Force (TATF) is to draft a ToIP specification that defines the overall technical requirements for the four layers of the ToIP stack. This TF will be specifically focused on adapting the original public document defining the ToIP stack. Note: this specification is intended to serve as a direct a counterpart to the ToIP Governance Architecture Specification deliverable from the GSWG Governance Architecture TF. (The full set of first-generation ToIP Governance Stack specification are described in this ToIP blog post.)

Deliverables

#1: ToIP Technology Architecture Specification

The primary deliverable of this Task Force is the the  ToIP Technical Architecture Specification—a specification of the overall architectural requirements for each of the four layers of the ToIP the ToIP stack and how they are abstracted from the layer below. It is anticipated that this specification this specification will lay the overarching foundation for four one or more future ToIP specifications—one for each layer of the stack—that will specify detailed interoperability subsequent ToIP specifications that will specify protocols and interoperability requirements for each layer.

#2: ToIP Interoperability Test Cases

A second deliverable of this Task Force is ToIP Interoperability Test Cases (also initially being drafted as a Google doc). This is intended to evolve into the overall specification for the test cases that can be implemented by a commercial-grade test harness.

#3: ToIP Technology Introduction for Policymakers

A third deliverable of this Task Force is a document written explicitly for policymakers, governing authorities, analysts, and other non-technical audiences who need to deeply understand the purpose, uses, and implications of the ToIP stack but do not need (or want) to dive into the technical details. Work on this document has not yet commenced, but a link will be added here as soon as it has. 

Leads

Please add your name to this list if you wish to be a lead:

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To join this TF, add your name to this list:

• Drummond Reed  EvernymAvast
• Scott Whitmire  Mayo Clinic
• Rohan Pinto 1Kosmos Inc.,
• Vinod Panicker  Wipro Ltd
• Wenjing Chu  Futurewei
• Xinxin Fan  IoTeX
• Darrell O'Donnell Continuum Loop Inc.
• Steve McCown Anonyome Labs
• sankarshan Dhiway Networks
• Jo Spencer 460degrees/Sezoo
• Daniel Bachenheimer Accenture
• Antti Kettunen
• Allan Thomson Avast

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1. NA/EU meeting: 07:00-08:00 PT / 15:00-16:00 UTC
2. APAC meeting:  1318:00-1419:00 PT / 2101:00-2202:00 UTC

Meetings are announced on the ToIP Slack channel #tswg-tech-arch-tf. Please join us there.

Milestones

Key milestones will include, but are not limited to:

1. ToIP Technical Architecture Specification
   1. First Draft — 15 March 2021
   2. Public Review Draft — 31 March 2021
   3. Final Draft — 30 April 2021

The first major milestone of the Task Force is to publish the public review draft of the ToIP Technical Architecture Specification prior to the Hyperledger Global Forum 2022 conference in Dublin, Ireland on September 12-14, 2022.

Intellectual Property Rights (Copyright, Patent, Source Code)

As a Task a Task Force (TF) of the Governance the Technical Stack WG (GSWGTSWG), the GATF TATF inherits the IPR terms from the GSWG the TSWG JDF Charter. These include:

• Copyright mode: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. 
• Patent mode: W3C Mode (based on the W3C Patent Policy).
• Source code: Apache 2.0, available at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html. The GSWG TA TF is not expected to produce source code.

Mailing List and Communications

This task force uses the following for communications

• Mailing List: This TF will most likely not need its own is not using a separate mailing list but sending all emails to the full Technology Stack WG mailing list.
• Slack: This TF will have its own dedicated Slack channel if there is enough demandThe ToIP Slack channel is #tswg-tech-arch-tf.