Mission

The mission of  the TSWG Technology Architecture Task Force (TATF) is to draft a ToIP 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 Hyperledger RFC 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.

Deliverables

The deliverable of this Task Force is the  ToIP Technical Architecture Specification—a specification of the overall architectural requirements for each of the four layers of the ToIP stack and how they are 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.

Leads

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

• Drummond Reed, Evernym

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

Meeting Schedule

This TF meets as required. Meetings are announced on the ToIP Slack channel.

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

Intellectual Property Rights (Copyright, Patent, Source Code)

As a Task Force (TF) of the Governance Stack WG (GSWG), the GATF inherits the IPR terms from the GSWG 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. 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 mailing list.
• Slack: This TF will have its own dedicated Slack channel if there is enough demand.