Purpose

The purpose of the GSWG Governance Architecture Task Force (GATF) is to draft specifications and companion guides for ToIP-compatible governance frameworks (regardless of their governance targets in the ToIP stack). The first generation of this TF developed the foundational requirements for all ToIP-compatible governance frameworks. This work was completed in December 2021 and is summarized in this ToIP blog post. The second generation, which will begin in September 2022, will tackle specifications and companion guides for specific governance framework components.

Deliverables

1. ToIP Governance Architecture Specification—a specification of the overall layer-independent requirements that any ToIP-compliant governance framework must meet.
2. ToIP Governance Metamodel—a specification for the standard model for ToIP-compliant governance frameworks.
3. ToIP Governance Metamodel  Companion Guide—the "instruction manual" for the above.
4. ToIP Governance Framework Matrix—a tool for governing authorities to plan and organize their work on developing their own ToIP-compliant governance frameworks.
5. ToIP Governance Framework Matrix Companion Guide—the "instruction manual" for the above.

Leadership

Please add your name to this list if you wish to be a lead of the second-generation GATF:

• TBD

Members

Please add your name to this list in any desired role:

• Primary Editors

  • Drummond Reed

  • Scott Perry

  • Jim St. Clair

  • Wenjing Chu
  • Savita Farooqui

• Secondary Editors

  • Eric Drury
• Primary Reviewers

  • Scott Whitmire

  • Kalyan Kulkarni

• Secondary Reviewers

  • Ken Adler

• Observers
  • Karl Kneis
  • Steve Magennis
  • Steven Milstein
  • sankarshan
  • Victor Golubkov

Meeting Schedule

This TF schedules meetings as needed. Each meeting will be announced on the GSWG mailing list and the #gswg-gov-architecture-tf Slack channel.

Milestones

Key milestones will include, but are not limited to:

1. ToIP Governance Architecture Specification
   1. First Draft — 30 November 2020
   2. Second Draft — 31 December 2020
   3. Final Draft — Pending completion of dependent specifications

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 does not maintain a separate mailing list.
• Slack: This TF has its own dedicated Slack channel: #gswg-gov-architecture-tf