This page is a rough draft of the ToIP Governance Architecture TSS (ToIP Standard Specification), a Draft Deliverable of the GSWG. It is intended to be used for early stages of editing prior to moving the document into a GitHub repo (where we will convert it into a Markdown document following the process being developed by the Operations Team). To simplify editing, some subsections of this document are being developed as separate wiki pages, e.g., the ToIP governance metamodel.
To comply with the intellectual property rights protections in the charter of the ToIP Foundation (as required by all Joint Development Foundation projects hosted the Linux Foundation), all contributors to this Pre-Draft Deliverable MUST be current members of the ToIP Foundation and the Governance Stack Working Group (GSWG). The following contributors each certify that they meet this requirement:
In this document, the key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
All other terms in First Letter Capitals are defined in the Governance Glossary published by the Concepts and Terminology Working Group.
The purpose of this TSS is to specify the standard requirements that apply to all ToIP-compatible governance frameworks (GF) regardless of their layer in the ToIP Stack.
Note: The technical counterpart to this TSS is the ToIP Technical Architecture TSS.
The overall purpose of the ToIP Governance Stack is to enable users of the ToIP Technology Stack to make Transitive Trust decisions based on Governance Frameworks that are both human-readable and machine-verifiable. While Governance Frameworks can be specialized for all four layers of the ToIP Stack, certain requirements apply to all ToIP-Compliant Governance Frameworks regardless of layer. The goal of this specification is to specify all of those requirements in a single specification.
The purpose of the ToIP Governance Metamodel is to provide an overall template for ToIP-Compliant Governance Frameworks from which the GSWG will then develop layer-specific templates.
The ToIP Governance Metamodel is currently defined on its own wiki page. The contents of that page will be incorporated into this section of the TSS.
To support Transitive Trust across trust boundaries, ToIP-Compliant Governance Frameworks (GF) need to provide standard, persistent, verifiable identification of themselves, their Governance Authorit(ies), their Controlled Documents, and the ToIP Roles, Credentials, and other components they define.
The following MUST have Public Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) compliant with the ToIP Technology Stack:
The following SHOULD have Public DID URLs compliant with the ToIP Technology Stack:
To support Transitive Trust, the following verification requirements apply to ToIP-Compliant Governance Frameworks (GF):
To support Transitive Trust, a publicly-available ToIP-Compliant Governance Framework:
To support Transitive Trust, a publicly-available ToIP-Compliant Governance Framework:
To support the interoperability necessary for Transitive Trust, a publicly-available ToIP-Compliant Governance Framework: