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This page describes the GSWG Trust Assurance Task Force (the "GSWG TA TF"). It was created by Scott Perry.

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For a digital world, trust is an essential.  As shown in ToIP Governance Stack, human trust is heavily relied upon in layer three – Credential Exchange and is refined in the Ecosystem Governance Layer (Layer Four) with the introduction of the following roles creating a referential trust ecosystem: Trust Anchor; Credential Registry, Governance Authority, Auditor and Audit Accreditor. The following diagram depicts how these roles interact

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The ecosystem creates assurance to verifiers, identity owners credential holders and relying parties that trust anchors are applying generally accepted trust criteria to their methods and practices by the introduction of accreditation and independent third-party audits that act in their interest.  Relying parties acquires trust from the ecosystem based on the ability of the players to follow through on its commitments and the integrity of its decisions.  Symbols of this trust are stored on publicly accessible credential registry it can be propagated throughout the ecosystem.

As one of a set of "genesis" task forces birthed by the GSWG, This this task force will further develop the trust assurance roles and processes  processes and will be used in establishing generally accepted roles, responsibilities and standard processes of actors relying upon ToIP ecosystems

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