Mission

The mission of  the TSWG Technology Architecture Task Technology Architecture Task Force (TATF) is a task force of the ToIP Technology Stack Working Group. The mission of the TATF is to draft a ToIP specification the ToIP Technology Architecture Specification that defines the overall technical requirements for the four layers of the ToIP stack. This TF will be specifically focused on adapting the original public document defining the ToIP stack.  Note: this specification is intended to serve as a direct a counterpart to the ToIP Governance Architecture Specification deliverable from the GSWG Governance Architecture TF. (The full set of first-generation ToIP Governance Stack specifications are described in this ToIP blog post.)

Deliverables

#1: ToIP Technology Architecture Specification

The primary deliverable of this Task Force is the the ToIP Technical Architecture Specification—a specification of the overall architectural requirements for each of the four layers of the ToIP the ToIP stack and how they are each is abstracted from the layer below. It is anticipated that this specification will lay the overarching foundation for four more future ToIP specifications—one for each layer of the stack—that will specify detailed interoperability requirements for each layer.

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The requirements in this specification will guide the selection and/or development of a set of component specifications as required to enable the complete four layer stack. See the Evolution of the ToIP Stack for a full backgrounder on the development stages for the ToIP stack.

#2: ToIP Primer for Policymakers

A second deliverable of this Task Force is a document written explicitly for policymakers, governing authorities, analysts, and other non-technical audiences who need to deeply understand the purpose, uses, and implications of the ToIP stack but do not need (or want) to dive into the technical details. Work on this document has not yet commenced, but a link will be added here as soon as it has.

Leadership

Please add your name to this list if you wish to be a lead:

• Darrell O'Donnell, Continuum Loop
• Drummond Reed, Gen
• Wenjing Chu,  EvernymFuturewei

Membership and Joining

Prior to participating in the meetings please ensure that you are a member of the Trust Over IP Foundation. Contributor level membership is available to anyone at no cost. Details can be found at this link.

To join this TF, add your name to this list:

• Drummond Reed  Evernym
• Scott Whitmire  Mayo Clinic
• Rohan Pinto 1Kosmos Inc.,
• Vinod Panicker  Wipro Ltd
• Wenjing Chu  Futurewei
• Xinxin Fan  IoTeX
• Darrell O'Donnell Continuum Loop Inc.
• Steve McCown Anonyome Labs
• sankarshan Dhiway Networks
• Jo Spencer 460degrees/Sezoo
• Daniel Bachenheimer Accenture
• Antti Kettunen
• Allan Thomson Gen
• Jacques Bikoundou 
• Samuel Smith ProSapien
• Sumabala Nair IBM
• Christine Martin Continuum Loop Inc.

Meeting Schedule

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and Notes

Starting in 2023, this This TF currently holds two meetings on Thursday every week (see past Meeting Notes on the Meeting Page):

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one meeting every four weeks on Wednesdays at 08:00-

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09:00 PT /

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16:00-

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17:00 UTC

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. Please check the ToIP Calendar for current times and Zoom links for these meetings. (Note that in the other three weeks, this same time slot is used for TSWG plenary meetings and other TSWG task force meetings.)

Meeting Notes, including Zoom recordings, are kept for every meeting — see the Meeting Page for an index.

Meetings agendas are also announced on the ToIP Meetings are announced on the ToIP Slack channel #tswg-tech-arch-tf. Please join us there.

Milestones

Key milestones will include, but are not limited to:

1. ToIP Technical Architecture Specification
   1. First Draft — 15 March 2021
   2. Public Review Draft — 31 March 2021
   3. Final Draft — 30 April 2021

The first major milestone of the Task Force is publication of the first public review draft of the ToIP Technical Architecture V1.0 Specification prior to the Fall Internet Identity Workshop, Nov 15-17, 2022.

The next milestones are the publication of the second public review draft (and, if necessary, a third), followed by the publication of the final 1.0 specification.

Intellectual Property Rights (Copyright, Patent, Source Code)

As a Task a Task Force (TF) of the Governance the Technology Stack WG (GSWGTSWG), the GATF inherits TATF inherits the IPR terms from the GSWG the TSWG JDF Charter. These include:

• Copyright mode: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. : OWFa 1.0 (available at https://www.openwebfoundation.org/the-agreements/the-owf-1-0-agreements-granted-claims/owfa-1-0)
• Patent mode: W3C Mode (based on the W3C Patent Policy).OWFa 1.0 (available at https://www.openwebfoundation.org/the-agreements/the-owf-1-0-agreements-granted-claims/owfa-1-0)
• Source code: Apache 2.0 , (available at at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html. The GSWG TA TF is not expected to produce source code.)

Mailing List and Communications

This task force uses the following for communications

• Mailing List: This TF will most likely not need its own is not using a separate mailing list but sending all emails to the full Technology Stack WG mailing list.
• Slack: This TF will have its own dedicated Slack channel if there is enough demandThe ToIP Slack channel is #tswg-tech-arch-tf.