Any news and updates of general interest to CTWG members

• Neil Thomson said that he spoke with Savita Farooqui and the Governance Stack WG is going to separate out the private-to-private / peer-to-peer ("Alice-to-Bob") uses cases and Neil is going to develop a mental model around the trust establishment, trust tasks, trust checkpoints, and trust history workflow.
  
  • This is in contrast to the many consumer-to-business uses cases.
  • Neil would like to be able to run his mental model ideas by Rieks Joosten for his feedback.
  • Rieks Joosten asked if Neil Thomson could focus on what the participants will be able to do with these P2P scenario uses of the ToIP stack that they would not be able to do without it. This is the best criteria for deciding what is the highest priority for the mental model.
  • Neil: there is a lot of plumbing involved with reaching a data agreement — a consent to a filter on a data set. ISO 27560 is the data agreement spec.
  • Candidate audience/model types
    • Three parties are involved: the developer of the components, the supplier of the data, and the consumer of the data.
    • Core library technical -> Dev user of core libraries -> HUMINT (human interface) -> public consumer
  • The important output in terms of a cohesive whole is the consumer who must understand the choices they are making.
• Henk van Cann shared: "Docusaurus, concepts, terms and glossaries -> We’ve been testing with front-end editing and signing: https://kordwarshuis.github.io/WOT-terms/docs/overview/"

• ACTION: Drummond Reed to send Judith Fleenor the final Word doc and PDF of the Decentralized SSI Governance white paper.
  • Permalink: https://trustoverip.org/wp-content/uploads/ToIP-Decentralized-SSI-Governance-V2.0-2022-01-06.pdf
• ACTION: Judith Fleenor, Henk van Cann, and Andor Kesselman to develop recommendations for sustainable GitHub maintenance, including definitions of the skills and roles needed and how a ToIP GitHub Support Group should be formed and maintained.
  • Henk said that Andor replied: “I had briefly looked into this a while ago, and remember coming across https://github.com/contributor-assistant/github-action. Has anyone tried this?”
  • Brian thinks that Andor's suggestion is not related.
  • Henk still needs an answer to the EasyCLA issue.
  • The KERI team is focused on using Docusaurus.
• ACTION: Drummond Reed to put the Mental Models Task Force on the agenda for the next meeting.

Brian Richter Rieks Joosten 

Here is the current ToIP Glossary Workspace Google doc. Drummond will share more about the process the TSWG is following.

Neil Thomson suggested we have two different audiences for our outputs:

1. Specification writers and architects.
2. Developers and UI/UX designers who need a simpler operational understanding.

Rieks Joosten shared his experience with EU Data Spaces that there are many different audiences. This leads to two different types of challenges:

1. These different participant groups understanding each other's concepts without having to harmonize their terms.
2. The collective group as a whole wanting to communicate with an outside audience—in which case the pressure is to pick one unified model.

The latter case requires that one coherent overall model to be developed that can be used to author different texts for external audiences.

See this proposed charter. Discuss how we might want to proceed.

Rieks Joosten said that from his experience, the most effective mental models are those that directly address the needs of the business people requiring a solution.