This deliverable is the white paper that provides an overall introduction to the ToIP stack and the ToIP Foundation

Status: V2 of this white paper is currently under development, with a goal of completing a draft ready for ToIP community review by the end of August 2021.

Links:

• GitHub repository here.
• Deliverables portal publication here.
• Early Word version here.
• Current Google doc version here <== this is where to go to contribute to the current draft of the V2 white paper.

Note that the original V1 version of the Introduction to ToIP white paper is still active on the ToIP website.

This is the structure of the original white paper:

• Introduction:
  • Overview
  • Human Trust
• Digital Trust Challenge:
  • Pre-Internet Era Trust:
    • Credentials
    • In-Person Trust Triangle
    • Governance Trust Triangle
    • Trust Triangle Examples
  • Internet Era and the Trust Gap:
    • Moving Online
    • Login Accounts: The Accidental Actor
    • Federating Accounts
    • Peer-to-Peer Trust
  • New Era of Digital Trust:
    • Back to the Future with Digital Credentials
    • Verifiable Credential Trust Triangle
    • Economy-Scale Digital Trust
• Trust over IP Stack:
  • Dual Stack Design
  • Layer One: Public Utilities
  • Layer Two: Peer-to-Peer Protocol
  • Layer Three: Data Exchange Protocols
  • Layer Four: Application Ecosystems
• Foundation Role and Process:
  • Mission
  • Concepts
  • Deliverables
  • Organization Structure
  • Join Us
• Help:
  • FAQ
  • Contact us