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Mission and Scope

The (ambitious) mission of the proposed MM&T WG is to identify and address the issues of ToIP stakeholders/users, that relate to ways of thinking (mental models) and terminology, and that may adversely affect the ToIP mission, i.e. "constructing, maintaining and improving a globally working, pervasively used, scalable and interoperable infrastructure  for the (international) exchange of verified and certified data".

Conveners

  • Oskar van Deventer
  • Rieks Joosten

Potential Members (add your name if you are interested in joining this proposed WG)

  • Drummond Reed
  • ...

Background

Context

ToIP is the first and only member of the Linux Foundation that, next to a focus on technology (e.g. cryptography, DIDs and other identifiers, communication protocols, verifiable credentials, etc.) also and specifically focuses on business, legal and social aspects. Its complex and daunting mission is "constructing, maintaining and improving a globally working, pervasively used, scalable and interoperable infrastructure for the (international) exchange of verified and certified data". This is an engineering task that must not only provide the technology, but also actual business value and capabilities for complying with different legal contexts and societies. The main difficulty ToIP seeks to overcome is the integration between technology, business, legal, etc. 

MM&T WG Mission

A well-known impediment for this is 'language confusion', evidence of which is that many stories about this exist in various cultures. A more contemporary acknowledgement of this is the arechitecture of the EU parliament building in Strasbourg, which resembles the Tower of Babel (according to Pieter Brueghel's famous painting).

The (ambitious) mission of the proposed MM&T WG is to identify and address the issues that relate to ways of thinking (mental models) and terminology that may be an impediment for the ToIP mission of constructing, maintaining and improving a globally working, pervasively used, scalable and interoperable infrastructure  for the (international) exchange of verified and certified data.

MM&T WG Purpose

In a similar way that the results of ToIP, in order to be used, must be fit for purpose, the results of this WG must also be 'fit for purpose'. This implies that the WG needs to keep tabs on what the various stakeholders will actually want to do with the mental models and terminology that this WG will govern.

Specifically, the WG  shall create and maintain a list of stakeholders, their objectives, the issues they face regarding mental models and terminology, and the products or services that they might use for resolving such issues.

Knowing the kinds of products or services that will actually be used by others will provide the requirements that the mental models and terminology of this WG must satisfy. It helps us decide what tasks to undertake, guide us with tool selection, etc.

This is especially important because we envisage stakeholders to come from very different domains - technical, business, legal, etc. - each of which has different needs. Minimizing the effort being spent in this WG will require us spending some time to identify these needs, and finding ways to reconcile them into a minimum number of artefacts to be produced and maintained.

Governance

<insert proposed governance policies and procedures>




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