Technology Stack Working Group

Introduction

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.

Scope

Define (directly or by reference) the technical standards, test suites, and interoperability certification standards for the Trust over IP architecture stack consistent with the Design Principles for the ToIP Stack.

Leadership

2023 Co-Chairs:

• Darrell O'Donnell (Continuum Loop)
• Drummond Reed (Gen)

2023 Vice-Chairs:

• Daniel Bachenheimer (Accenture)
• Tim Bouma 
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs)

Task Forces

Much of the work on deliverables of the TSWG is performed my self-organizing Task Forces (TFs). Following are the current active TFs and their current leads. See their home pages for their meeting schedules.

• Trust Registry TF (TRTF) — Darrell O'Donnell Andor Kesselman Antti Kettunen 
• Authentic Chained Data Container (ACDC) TF — Samuel Smith Phil Feairheller 
• Technology Architecture TF (TATF) — Wenjing Chu Drummond Reed 
• Trust Spanning Protocol TF (TSPTF) — Drummond Reed Wenjing Chu
• AI & Metaverse (AIM) Technology TF (AIMTF) — Wenjing Chu Vikas Malhotra 

The following TF has been proposed and approved but is not yet active:

• W3C Concept Development TF (W3TF) — Darrell O'Donnell 

Meetings

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):

1. NA/EU: 08:00-09:00 PT / 16:00-17:00 UTC 
2. APAC: 18:00-19:00 PT / 02:00-03:00 UTC

The TSWG shares this Wednesday pair of meeting slots in a four-week cycle with three other TSWG Task Force meetings. So the full four-week cycle (which started on 04 January 2023) is:

1. TSWG Plenary
2. Technology Architecture Task Force
3. Trust Spanning Protocol Task Force Meeting #1
4. Trust Spanning Protocol Task Force Meeting #2 

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.

Deliverables

The table below lists all TSWG deliverables that have been approved to move beyond Pre-Draft status. Bold = current. 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.

Other potential deliverables discussed by TSWG members:

• Laws of Identity (status: PROPOSED) - intended to explain how ToIP maps to Kim Cameron's work. (Google doc draft here.)

How to join

You can join this WG by signing up for the Foundation mailing list at lists.trustoverip.org. Our mailing list is technology-stack-wg@lists.trustoverip.org.

Members as well as observers are welcome (with the important caveat below).

Participation

For the protection of all Members, participation in working groups, meetings and events is limited to members, including their employees, of the Trust over IP Foundation who have signed the membership documents and thus agreed to the intellectual property rules governing participation. If you or your employer are not a member of ToIP, you may not participate in meetings by verbal contribution or otherwise take any action beyond observing.  To join ToIP and be able to contribute, please fill out the light weight membership application on our website here. 

Intellectual Property Rights (Copyright, Patent, Source Code)

The WG inherits the IPR terms from the 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.