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*** NOTE: THIS TASK FORCE IS PLANNED BUT NOT YET ACTIVE ***

This page describes the GSWG Trust Assurance Task Force (the "GSWG TA TF"). It was originally created by Scott Perry (for a detailed understanding of trust assurance, see Scott's Trust Assurance White Paper).

Objectives

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Background/Context

Trust is defined as the “firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something”.  Digital trust is built from three main components: Cryptographic Trust; Human Trust and Referential Trust.  Referential Trust is established through a trustworthy entity transferring trust upon a third party. 

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The ecosystem creates assurance to verifiers, 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.

The Governance Metamodel

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

Objectives

1. To embed mechanisms that will add to the reliability of actors and processes within the ToIP Governance Stack 
2. To develop assurance processes of roles operating at all layers of the ToIP Governance Stack
3. To establish classes (levels) of trust that can be assigned to objects (e.g. credentials) 
4. To standardize variations of process activity attributable to levels of assurance
5. To establish sets of criteria for actors in the ToIP ecosystem to assert levels of assurance they convey into the ToIP ecosystem
6. To create models for certification schemes that can be deployed by ToIP customer ecosystems
7. To align assurance roles and processes with the ToIP Technical Stack
8. To align with schemas and semantics being developed in other areas of the ToIP Foundation

Conveners

1. Scott Perry, Scott S. Perry CPA PLLC
   

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