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Volunteers Needed – ToIP Announces new Issuer Governance Requirements Task Force

By April 10, 2023Blog

The mission of the Trust over IP (ToIP) Foundation is to define a complete architecture for Internet-scale digital trust that combines cryptographic assurance at the machine layer with human accountability at the business, legal, and social layers. Part of that mission is to define generally accepted requirements for standard roles that play a critical part in accountability in digital trust.

Today our Governance Stack Working Group is forming a task force to define standard requirements for issuers of verifiable credentials. While many schemes in the US, UK and Canada have focused on elements of identity credential issue and use, this will be the first effort to define what are standard requirements expected of issuers of verifiable credential to ensure that their processes are transparent, consistent and meeting the needs of relying parties and ecosystem owners.

While we have a core team of spirited technologists and governance architects assembled, we need more voices from the verifiable credentials community to broaden our perspectives and solidify our expected deliverables. This task force could produce artifacts that have global implications.  

We need your voice!

Meetings plan to start on Wednesday April 12 at 7:00am PT/10:00am ET.

In order to actively participate, you need to be a member of the Trust Over IP Foundation and a member of the Governance Stack Working Group.

Contributing Membership rates are free so just fill out our membership agreement to join. If you need assistance just fill out the contact us form.