Mission
The Trust Spanning Protocol Task Force (TSPTF) is a task force of the ToIP Technology Stack Working Group. The mission of the TSWG is to draft the ToIP Trust Spanning Protocol V1.0 Specification meeting the requirements for ToIP Layer 2 as specified in the ToIP Technology Architecture V1.0 Specification. Since this protocol is the keystone for interoperability of the ToIP stack, the TSPTF intends to reach out across all other orgs in the space (e.g., Decentralized Identity Foundation, Hyperledger, OpenWallet Foundation, W3C Credentials Community Group) for collaboration on this effort.
For a complete overview of the development process for the ToIP technology stack, see Evolution of the ToIP Stack.
Deliverables
The deliverable of this Task Force is the ToIP Trust Spanning Protocol Specification that must meet the 18 requirements for the ToIP Layer 2 protocol as specified in the ToIP Technology Architecture V1.0 Specification. The requirements in this specification must interoperate with other ToIP component specifications as explained in the Evolution of the ToIP Stack.
Leadership
Please add your name to this list if you wish to be a lead of this task force:
- Drummond Reed, Gen
- Wenjing Chu, Futurewei
- Daniel Hardman, Provenant
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:
- <name here, plus affiliation if an organizational member>
- Viky Manaila, Intesi Group
- Darrell O'Donnell, Continuum Loop Inc.
Meeting Schedule and Notes
This TF will begin meeting in January 2023. Initially it will meet twice every four weeks (the third and fourth weeks) of the time slot on Wednesdays at 08:00-09:00 PT / 16:00-17:00 UTC. Please check the ToIP Calendar for current times and Zoom links for these meetings. (Note that in the other two weeks, this same time slot is used for TSWG plenary meetings and Technology Architecture Task Force (TATF) meetings.)
Meeting Notes, including Zoom recordings, are kept for every meeting — see the TSPTF Meeting Pages for an index.
Meetings agendas are also announced on the ToIP Slack channel #tswg-trust-spanning-tf. Please join us there.
Milestones
The first major milestone of the Task Force will be publication of the first public review draft of the ToIP Trust Spanning Protocol V1.0 Specification. The proposed goal is to publish this draft by 30 June 2023, and to finalize the spec by 30 September 2023.
Intellectual Property Rights (Copyright, Patent, Source Code)
As a Task Force (TF) of the Technical Stack WG (TSWG), the TSPTF inherits the IPR terms from the TSWG JDF Charter. These include:
- Copyright mode: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
- Patent mode: W3C Mode (based on the W3C Patent Policy).
- Source code: Apache 2.0, available at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html.
Mailing List and Communications
This task force uses the following for communications
- Mailing List: This TF is not using a separate mailing list but sending all emails to the full Technology Stack WG mailing list.
- Slack: The ToIP Slack channel is #tswg-trust-spanning-tf.