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  • Drummond Reed
  • Daniel Hardman
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Unlike most Linux Foundation projects, the primary focus of the ToIP Foundation is not just on technology (e.g. cryptography, DIDs and other identifiers, communication protocols, verifiable credentials, etc.). Instead, our focus is just as much on governance, including the business, legal and social aspects. It is a complex and daunting mission to "construct, maintain and improve a global, pervasive, 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 all of these domains. 

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