The Technology Stack Working Group (TSWG) specifies requirements, specifications, and test suites for the technical architecture of the ToIP stack. For an overview of the ToIP stack, see the Introduction to ToIP white paper. For an overview of the ToIP stack development process, see the Evolution of the ToIP Stack.
The scope of the Technical Stack Working Group (as defined by our charter revised in September 2023) is to define (directly or by reference) the technical standards, test suites, and interoperability certification standards for the Trust over IP architecture stack as described in the Introduction to ToIP paper and the Design Principles for the ToIP Stack paper.
2023 Co-Chairs:
2023 Vice-Chairs:
Much of the work on deliverables of the TSWG is performed by self-organizing Task Forces (TFs). Following are the current active TFs and their current leads. See their home pages for their meeting schedules.
The TSWG currently holds a plenary meeting once every four weeks on Wednesdays in two time slots (one for North America/Europe and one for Asia Pacific time zones):
Meetings in 2024 will begin on January 23.
For all authoritative meeting logistics and Zoom links, please see the ToIP Calendar.
See the TSWG Meeting Page for an index of all Meeting Pages with agendas, notes and recordings from all meetings.
The table below lists all TSWG deliverables and the Task Forces working on each. Bold = completed. Non-bold = future. WG members are welcome to follow the links to contribute, either by joining the responsible Task Force (TF) or contributing directly to a deliverable document.
Name of Deliverable | Deliverable Type | Link to Deliverable | Task Force | Deliverable Status |
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Principles of SSI | Recommendation | Completed | ToIP Approved Deliverable | |
Design Principles for the ToIP Stack | Recommendation | ToIP Approved Deliverable | ||
ToIP Technology Architecture Specification | Specification | ToIP webpage (with links to the GitHub version and PDF) | ToIP Technology Architecture TF | Public Review Draft 01 |
ToIP Trust Spanning Protocol Specification | Specification | ToIP wiki page | Trust Spanning Protocol TF | Draft Deliverable |
ToIP Trust Registry Protocol Specification | Specification | ToIP wiki page (with links to current versions) | Trust Registry TF | Draft Deliverable |
ACDC Specification (Authentic Chained Data Containers) | Specification | See ACDC TF home page | ACDC TF | Draft Deliverable |
KERI Specification | Specification | See ACDC TF home page | ACDC TF | Draft Deliverable |
CESR Specification | Specification | See ACDC TF home page | ACDC TF | Draft Deliverable |
SAID Specification (Self-Addressing Identifier) | Specification | See ACDC TF home page | ACDC TF | Draft Deliverable |
OOBI Specification | Specification | See ACDC TF home page | ACDC TF | Draft Deliverable |
did:webs DID Method Specification | Specification | ToIP wiki page | did:webs TF | Draft Deliverable |
did:x509 DID Method Specification | Specification | ToIP wiki page | X.509 VID TF | Draft Deliverable |
After you have joined Trust Over IP, you can join this WG by signing up for the Working Group's mailing list. Use this link to sign-up for the TWSG-2 mailing list to signify your acceptance of the WG charter and desire to participate in the TSWG-2. Scroll to the bottom of the page. Log-in using your group.io username and password or LF ID. Then click on the blue button [+Join This Group]. mailing list at lists.trustoverip.org. Our mailing list is technology-stack-wg-2@lists.trustoverip.org.
Members as well as observers are welcome (with the important caveat below).
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The WG inherits the IPR terms from the JDF Charter. Until 25 October 2023, these are:
After 25 October 2023, the IPR terms changed to: