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 public document 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. (The full set of first-generation ToIP Governance Stack specification are described in this ToIP blog post.)
Deliverables
#1: ToIP Technology Architecture Specification
The primary 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 one or more subsequent ToIP specifications that will specify protocols and interoperability requirements for each layer.
#2: ToIP Interoperability Test Cases
A second deliverable of this Task Force is ToIP Interoperability Test Cases (also initially being drafted as a Google doc). This is intended to evolve into the overall specification for the test cases that can be implemented by a commercial-grade test harness.
#3: ToIP Primer for Policymakers
A third deliverable of this Task Force is a document written explicitly for policymakers, governing authorities, analysts, and other non-technical audiences who need to deeply understand the purpose, uses, and implications of the ToIP stack but do not need (or want) to dive into the technical details. Work on this document has not yet commenced, but a link will be added here as soon as it has.
Leads
Please add your name to this list if you wish to be a lead:
- Darrell O'Donnell
- Drummond Reed, Avast
- Wenjing Chu, Futurewei
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 Avast
- 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
- Daniel Bachenheimer Accenture
- Antti Kettunen
- Allan Thomson Avast
- Jacques Bikoundou
- Samuel Smith ProSapien
- Sumabala Nair IBM
Meeting Schedule
This TF currently holds two meetings on Thursday every week (see past Meeting Notes on the Meeting Page).
Please check the ToIP Calendar for current times and Zoom links for these meetings.
- NA/EU meeting: 07:00-08:00 PT / 15:00-16:00 UTC
- APAC meeting: 18:00-19:00 PT / 02:00-03:00 UTC
Meetings are announced on the ToIP Slack channel #tswg-tech-arch-tf. Please join us there.
Milestones
The first major milestone of the Task Force is to publish the public review draft of the ToIP Technical Architecture Specification prior to the Fall Internet Identity Workshop, Nov 15-17, 2022.
Intellectual Property Rights (Copyright, Patent, Source Code)
As a Task Force (TF) of the Technical Stack WG (TSWG), the TATF 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-tech-arch-tf.