Industry sector: Information Technology

Mission

The purpose of the SEGF Task Force is to develop the Sovrin Ecosystem, a ToIP Layer 4 ecosystem whose purpose is to enable self-sovereign identity (SSI) as a universal service. This Task Force is a sister effort to the Sovrin Utility Governance Framework (SUGF) Task Force, a ToIP Layer 1 public utility to support the Sovrin Ecosystem and all other digital trust ecosystems.

For background on both the SEGF and SUGF, see this document from the Sovrin Governance Framework Working Group. The governance authority for both the SEGF and SUGF is the Sovrin Foundation, a U.S. 501(c)4 non-profit public trust organization.

Deliverables

1. An implementation plan for the Sovrin Ecosystem Governance Framework, an evolutionary development of the existing Sovrin Governance Framework V2.

Chairs/Convenors

• Drummond Reed
• Chris Raczkowski

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, Evernym
• Chris Raczkowski
• sankarshan
• Ken Adler

Meeting Schedule

This TF is expected to start scheduling meetings in October 2020. Subscribe to this page for updates.

Milestones

Key milestones will include, but are not limited to: <TODO>

Intellectual Property Rights (Copyright, Patent, Source Code)

As a Task Force (TF) of the Utility Foundry WG (UFWG), 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: <TODO>
• Slack: <TODO>