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Potential Members (add your name if you are interested in joining this proposed WG)

• Drummond Reed
• ...Daniel Hardman

Background

Context

ToIP is the first and only member of the Linux Foundation that, next to a focus on technology (e.g. cryptography, DIDs and other identifiers, communication protocols, verifiable credentials, etc.) also and specifically focuses on governance, including business, legal and social aspects. Its complex and daunting mission is "constructing, maintaining and improving a globally working, pervasively used, scalable and interoperable infrastructure for the (international) exchange of verified and certified data". This is an engineering task that must not only provide the technology, but also actual business value and capabilities for complying with different legal contexts and societies. The main difficulty ToIP seeks to overcome is the integration between technology, business, legal, etc. 

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The most basic purpose for having mental models and terminology (definitions) is for them to help someone that interprets a term (interpreter) that is uttered by someone else (speaker), to correctly hallucinate accurately apprehend its intended meaning. In casual, human conversations, 'interpretation errors' (mis-hallucinationsapprehensions) may be detected and corrected if relevant. In automated contexts, terms (messages) are just interpreted as they are programmed, so any miscommunication occurs at the human level, and may go undetected and lead to buggy software (or costly repairs).

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