2020-08-19 Meeting (Open Conversation Edition)
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- Zoom recording: https://zoom.us/rec/share/zM5oBq3o3GJJWqvS82OFW4UAILvXaaa813Idr6FfzErceQXEq8SQXXC6fwEWgs6u
- John Jordan gave an update on his medical situation
- Background and updates are available on this CaringBridge page
- John expressed that he is very honored to be able to continue as Executive Director
- It has massively increased his awareness of the requirements for accessibility and usability of ToIP
- He is particularly excited about the launch of the Human Experience Working Group next month
- He has not been able to join many WG meetings since his accident, but is hoping to be able to start attending more
- He introduced Dave Luchuk, our new full-time Program Manager, who John has known for 20+ years
- Dave, who just started this week, gave an introduction
- He pointed out that his onboarding to the Linux Foundation
- Based in Ottawa, he has been a manager for a number of large projects for the Government of Canada
- His strongest interest, across all the projects he has been a manager for, is how to help
- His goal is to help all of the members, Working Groups, and Task Forces to achieve their objectives
- Dave is available to all members for help with anything you need to accomplish your objectives—you can reach him at:
- Slack: Dave Luchukxxx
- Email: dluchuk@contractor.linuxfoundation.org
- Wenjing Chu, Futurewei
- Gave an overview of why Futurewei is interested in trusted communications
- Wants to facilitate greater security and privacy in Futurewei's software and services
- Wants to enable customers to have greater confidence in Futurewei products
- Is very excited to be part of this community and to drive to establishing trust widely on the Internet
- Gabriella Laatikainen
- Very interested in horizontal interoperability of different ToIP network interactions
- Would like to find other ToIP members who are are interested in cross-network transactions
- Currently collaborating with the Findy consortium in Finland
- Anyone interested in this topic is invited to contact Gabriella via Slack or email
- Would also like to identify other ToIP topics for the research community to focus on
- For this, Gabriella would like to send a survey link to the members
- Scott Perry, Scott Perry CPA
- Co-chair of the Governance Stack Working Group
- Established a Trust Assurance Task Force within that WG
- Feels very strongly about the role of trust assurance frameworks
- Mentioned the role of the Governance Architecture TF as well
- Kevin Griffin and Philip Feairheller, Scior
- Focused on issuing verifiable credentials to high schools on their platform to help with the credentialing for college and employment
- Took their experience and started an open source project called Canis
- The goal is to allow people to easy spin up a ToIP stack implementation
- The model is a platform like Kong that helps bring together and coordinate a number of other open source projects to make it easy to deploy
- Kalyan Kulkarni, Ayanworks
- Joined ToIP with the goal of getting involved with SSI
- Has become a co-chair of the Governance Stack WG
- In India, there is a standard stack (the India Stack) that has been established for citizen and healthcare services
- Ayanworks is very interested in how that can be integrated with the ToIP stack
- He believes that they can influence the government policy there to try
- Dave pointed out that as an example of the global reach
- Drummond asked about specific contact points
- Kalyan said the NHA (the National Health Authority) is the agency that would be the contact for that
- Juan Caballero, Decentralized Identity Foundation
- Does communications and outreach for the Decentralized Identity Foundation
- Co-chairs the Interop Working Group at DIF
- Joined ToIP because he's doing research throughout the SSI space
- Is particularly interested in governance frameworks and the role governance will play
- Invites questions about collaboration with DIF, the repos, interop projects, etc.
- http://identity.foundation/
- We closed the meeting with a reminder that next month's meeting will be in the Report-Out format
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