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This WG aims helps ToIP community participants understand one another at whatever level of precision they need.
Discussion of the Proposed WG Charter
DanG: My Comments
While I agree with the problem that "Interpretation" of meaning is an pervasive problem in many of our daily lifestyle activities that cross international boundaries, I do not believe this is an achievable problem to solve for the Foundation nor one within our mission. That said, if there are community members desiring to contribute to such an endeavor I for one will not prevent such an activity.
Conversely, the Foundation requires base level of "words" that need to be "defined" in a default language "English". This if often referred to as a Glossary. Since the Foundation is not missioned to prescribe any technology solutions, we will need to have a base Glossary and then each ToIP Interoperability Profile (TIP) will need to extend the base.
If there is community interest in "interpreting" the meaning of these Glossaries, that for me is a separate task which BTW is dependent on the establishment oof something to "interpret".
Therefore, as per originally proposed – I refer to the original proposal as a starting point for a Glossary WG: ToIP Glossary WG proposal
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Scope Statement (the proposed language for our JDF Working Group Charter)
The scope of the Concepts and Terminology Working Group is to develop shared concepts and terminology available to all stakeholders in the Trust over IP stack. This includes developing artifacts and tools for discovering, documenting, defining, and (deeply) understanding the concepts and terms used within ToIP. Key deliverables include one or more glossaries together with a corpus of data behind them. This data will consist of formally modeled concepts, plus their relations and constraints, and will encompass perspectives from technical, governance, business, legal and other realms. Although this WG will maintain these glossaries and corpus of data as a repository for all ToIP WGs and Task Forces (TFs) to contribute to and inherit from, this does not preclude WGs or TFs from maintaining their own specialized glossaries if they require. Such specialized glossaries, together with other generators of concepts and terminology elsewhere in the industry, are expected to feed back into the glossaries and corpus of data maintained by this WG in a cycle of continuous improvement
Scope Statement (for the JDF Working Group Charter)
The scope of the Concepts and Terminology Working Group is to develop a corpus of shared concepts and terminology available to all stakeholders in the Trust over IP stack. This includes developing artifacts and tools for discovering, documenting, defining, and (deeply) understanding the concepts and terms used within ToIP. Key deliverables include one or more glossaries, and the corpus of data behind them. The data will consist of formally modeled concepts, plus their relations and constraints, and will encompass perspectives from technical, governance, business, legal and other realms.
Conveners (add your name if you are interested to become one of the conveners)
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- Daniel Hardman
- Oskar van Deventer
- Scott Perry
- Shashishekhar S
- Philippe Page
- Paul Knowles
- Taylor Kendal
- Scott Whitmire
- Arjun Govind
- Vinod Panicker
- sankarshan
- Steven Milstein
- Joaquin Salvachua
- James Hazard
Description
The primary focus of the ToIP Foundation is not just on technology (e.g. cryptography, DIDs, protocols, VCs, etc.), but also on governance and on business, legal and social aspects. Its mission to construct, maintain and improve a global, pervasive, scalable and interoperable infrastructure for the (international) exchange of verified and certified data is quite complex, and daunting". This not only requires technology to be provided (which is, or should be the same for everyone, i.e. an infrastructure). It also requires that different businesses with their different business models can use it for their specific, subjective purposes. And that each individual business and user is provided with capabilities that facilitate its compliance with the rules, regulations and (internal and external) policies that apply to that entity - the set of such rules, regulations and policies being different for every such entity, and dependent on the society, the legal jurisdictions and individual preferences. All this is to be realized by people and organizations from different backgrounds - different cultures, languages, expertise, jurisdictions etc., all of whom have their own mindset, objectives and interests that they would like to see served.
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