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This page describes the GSWG Process and Roles Task Force (the "GSWG P&R TF"). It was created by Scott Perry.

Objectives

  1. To develop the roles and responsibilities of actors within at each of the four layers of the ToIP Governance Stack 
  2. To develop standard processes of roles operating at all each of the four layers of the ToIP Governance Stack
  3. To align roles and processes with evolving specifications for the ToIP Technical Stack
  4. To align with schemas and semantics being developed in by other areas WGs of the ToIP Foundation
  5. To standardize process variables for various levels of trust assurance mechanisms

Background/Context

The mission of the ToIP Foundation was established as a public resource for the enablement of more trusted communication using verifiable credentials.The depiction of interoperability has been demonstrated in a stack diagram with two hemisperes: a is to define a complete architecture for Internet-scale digital trust that combines cryptographic trust at the machine layer with human trust at the business, legal, and social layers. The ToIP stack has two parallel halves Governance Stack and a Technical Stack operating in at four distinct layers 1) Utility (DLT Blockchain) Layer, 2) Provider (Agent/Wallet) Layer, 3) Credential (Issuer/Verifier/Holder) Layer and 4) Ecosystem (Governance AuthorityApplication) Layer.  This has been depicted in "Stack diagram and further explained in a concept RFC developed as part of the Hyperledger Aries project (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/blob/master/concepts/0289-toip-stack/README.md)See further details in the ToIP white paper and the ToIP RFC.

As one of the first four Working Groups, the mission of the Governance Stack WG is to fully define the ToIP Governance Stack.

The mission of this Task Force is to As one of a set of "genesis" task forces birthed by the GSWG, This task force will further develop the roles and processes previously defined and will be used in establishing identified in the initial ToIP RFC. The goal is to establish generally accepted roles, responsibilities and standard processes of that apply to actors participating in ToIP ecosystems

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each of the four layers of the ToIP stack.

Conveners

  1. Scott Perry, Scott S. Perry CPA PLLC

Membership and Joining

Prior to participating in the meetings please ensure that you are a member of the Trust Over IP Foundation. More detail on this can be found at this link.

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  • If you wish to join as a Contributor Member only, please see these documents.
  • If your organization is already a member of The Linux Foundation please see these documents

To join this TF, add your name and your expected role to this list:

  • Primary Editors
  • Secondary Editors (includes those who will ensure deliverables meet ToIP specifications)
  • Primary Reviewers

  • Secondary Reviewers

  • Observers


Deliverables

The GSWG P&R Task Force intends to create well defined descriptions robust definitions of roles, responsibilities and process processes that all actors in the ToIP Ecosystem will operateactors will operate at all four levels of the ToIP stack.  The focus will be on governance and operational processes and processes—definitions will only touch upon technical processes as needed for its purposesclarity.  This task force Task Force will not focus on technical interoperability processes (deferring to the Technical Stack Working Group).  These definitions are critical in the establishment and consistency of for consistently applying governance principles for across all four ToIP layers. 

Key deliverables will include, but are not limited to:

  1. ToIP Roles and Responsibilities which further defines the players that execute and rely upon key operations in the ToIP ecosystem at all governance layersDefinitions
  2. ToIP Governance Layer Process Definitions are a set of defined processes occurring at the different ToIP Governance Layers 

Intellectual Property Rights (Copyright, Patent, Source Code)

As a Task Force (TF) of the Governance Stack WG (GSWG), the GSWG P&R TF inherits the IPR terms from the GSWG JDF Charter. These include:

Milestones

Key milestones will include, but are not limited to:

  1. Formation of Task Force Group members
  2. Finalizing and evangelizing TF objectives
  3. Drafting of ToIP Roles and Responsiblities Responsibilities Definitions document
  4. Drafting of ToIP Governance Layer Process descriptionsDefinitions document

The work of the GSWG P&R TF will be complete when a final draft drafts of both deliverables are submitted to the GSWG.

Dependencies

As this TF will establish generally accepted roles, responsibilities and the ToIP Steering Group

Meeting Schedule

processes of the ToIP Governance Stack, it will need to work with a variety of other ToIP task forces and working groups to align definitions and deliverables.  They include, but not limited to:

  • Technical Stack Working Groups
  • Decentralized Semantics Working Group
  • Ecosystem Foundry Working Group
  • Utility Foundry Working Group
  • Concept and Technology Working Group
  • Trust Assurance Task Force

Meeting Schedule

Kickoff: Thursday July 30, 2020 11:00PDT (18:00 UTC)

On-going meetings:  11:30AM Pacific Time, every other Wednesday.To be developed

Mailing List and Communications

This task force uses the following for communications

  • Mailing List: The wide mailing list available to the members of the Governance Stack Working GroupThe Task Force will explore whether to set up a dedicated mailing list or use the Governance Stack WG mailing list. 
  • Slack: The Slack channel for the Governance Stack Working Group (#governance-stack-wg)TF has its own dedicated Slack channel: #gswg-process-and-roles-tf