Deliverables

Changing the landscape—through deliverables

The “Work” of the Working Groups is to create deliverables!

Yes, we have interesting conversations between intelligent people, and we learn from each other and invent new things together.

However, the goal remains to change the Digital Trust Landscape, and that requires deliverables that people can put into action.

The ToIP Foundation produces a wide range of tools and specifications, organized into five categories:

• Specifications to be implemented in code
• Glossaries to be incorporated in other documents
• Recommendations to be followed in practice
• Guides to be executed in operation
• White Papers to assist in decision making.

Introductory and Foundational Documents

• Trust Over IP Foundation White Paper V2.0 (PDF)
  ToIP – Approved  •  17 Nov 2021
  The history of trust, the new era that’s upon us, and an overview of the Trust Over IP stack that supports its implementation.
• Design Principles for the ToIP Stack V1.0 (PDF)
  ToIP – Approved  •  17 Nov 2021
  This paper recommends the 17 core design principles for the design and development of the ToIP stack, including computer network design principles, “human network” trust principles, and general design principles.
• Digital Trust Primer V2.1 (PDF)
  4 Apr 2020
  An introduction to Digital Trust and how to drive its global adoption.
• Principles of SSI V1.0 (PDF)
  ToIP – Approved  •  21 May 2021
  Provides emerging ecosystems, organizations and individuals with a set of design principles that cover the core tenets of SSI.

Explorations and Recommendations

• Overcoming Human Harm Challenges in Digital Identity Ecosystems White Paper V1.1 (PDF)
  ToIP – Approved  •  4 May 2023
  Explores the nature of human harms that arise from digital identity ecosystems, how decentralized identity can exacerbate or mitigate them, and proposes a systemic framework and clear strategies for mitigating those harms.
• Practical Steps for Overcoming Human Harm Challenges in Digital Identity Ecosystems V1.0 (PDF)
  ToIP – Approved  •  4 May 2023
  A short set of seven practical steps and countermeasures for mitigating human harms arising from digital identity ecosystems.
• Defining Digital Trust Ecosystems V1.0 (PDF)
  ToIP – Approved  •  13 Oct 2022
  Drawing on the characteristics of natural ecosystems and human economies to propose a definition of digital trust ecosystems.
• Decentralized Resource Identifiers in the Research Landscape V1.0 (PDF)
  ToIP – Approved  •  23 Sep 2021
  A new ecosystem of decentralized research identifiers is proposed that offers benefits of decentralization, interoperability, security, and scalability compared to current implementations.
• Do You Trust Me? V1.2 (PDF)
  ToIP – Approved  •  10 Nov 2021
  An exploration of the challenges in digital trust for every transaction, whether human, technical, or digital.
• Decentralized SSI Governance V2.0 (PDF)
  ToIP – Approved  •  6 Jan 2022
  This paper explores some issues that businesses may encounter when adopting SSI infrastructure as a new tool for obtaining “qualified data”, and suggests possible ways for addressing those issues.

Templates, Specifications, and Companion Guides

Goverance Stack Working Group

• Governance Architecture Specification V1.0 (PDF)
  ToIP – Approved  •  21 Dec 2021
  This is the core specification for the interoperability requirements for ToIP-compliant governance frameworks. (Note that it references the Governance Metamodel Specification as a subset; see below.)
• Governance Metamodel Specification V1.0 (PDF) and Companion Guide V1.0 (PDF)
  ToIP – Approved  •  21 Dec 2021
  A subset of the ToIP Governance Architecture Specification, this specifies the required, recommended, and optional components of a ToIP-compliant governance framework document set.
• Risk Assessment Worksheet Template V1.0 (Excel) and Companion Guide (RACG) V1.0 (PDF)
  ToIP – Approved  •  21 Dec 2021
  A guided template to help complete a ToIP recommended Risk Assessment in advance of a governance framework construction.
• Trust Criteria Matrix Template V1.0 (Excel) and Companion Guide V1.0 (PDF)
  ToIP – Approved  •  19 Oct 2021
  A container to organize and operationalize the accountability of governance framework mandates.
• Trust Assurance and Certification Controlled Document Template V1.0 (PDF) and Companion Guide V1.0 (PDF)
  ToIP – Approved  •  19 Oct 2021
  A starter shell for the production of a ToIP-approved trust assurance framework.
• Governance Framework Matrix V1.0 (Excel) and Companion Guide V1.0 (PDF)
  ToIP – Approved  •  19 Oct 2021
  A structure to evaluate, define and operationalize governance objectives, structure, process, and incentives for ToIP solutions.
• Issuers Requirements Guide for Governance Frameworks of Verifiable Credentials (PDF)
  Working Group – Approved  •  30 Jan 2024
  This document acts as a guide for including ToIP recommended issuer requirements within a governance framework that conforms with the Trust Over IP governance metamodel.

Technical Stack Working Group

• Trust Spanning Protocol Specification
  Implementers Draft  •  11 Apr 2024
  Trust Spanning Protocol, the first protocol designed explicitly to serve as a universal spanning layer for digital trust relationships between any two parties in the same way that the Internet Protocol (IP) serves as a spanning layer for data packets between any two local area networks.
• Trust Registry Protocol Specification V2.0
  Implementers Draft  •  3 Apr 2024
  The Trust Registry Protocol creates a simple and consistent way to programmatically get answers from authoritative ecosystem sources.
• Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) specification
  Public Review  •  15 Mar 2024
  An identity system based secure overlay for the Internet that provides verifiable authorship (authenticity) of any message or data item via secure cryptographically verifiable attribution.
• Authentic Chained Data Containers specification
  Public Review  •  15 Mar 2024
  A protocol that provides granular provenanced proof-of-authorship (authenticity) of contained data via a tree or chain of linked protocol elements. This provides a verifiable chain of proof-of-authorship of the contained data.
• Composable Event Streaming Representation specification
  Public Review  •  15 Mar 2024
  KERI’s encoding protocol for cryptographic primitives. A universal encoding that uniquely provides dual text and binary domain representations via composable conversion.
• DID:WEBS Method specification
  Public Review  •  15 Dec 2023
  did:webs is a DID method that combines the ease of discovery of did:web, while securing the identity using the power of KERI.
  
• Technology Architecture specification V1.0
  First Public Review Draft  •  14 Nov 2022

Good Health Pass Resources

• Good Health Pass Interoperability Blueprint V1.0 (PDF)
  ToIP – Approved  •  1 Aug 2021
  The approved deliverable about the open, inclusive, cross-sector initiative focused on reopening global travel.
• GHP Guardianship Addendum V0.9 (PDF)
  ToIP – Approved  •  11 Oct 2021
  Addressing the role of guardians in supporting accompanied travel for children, adults requiring support, and unaccompanied travel scenarios.
• Paper Credentials Cookbook V1.0 (PDF)
  ToIP – Approved  •  24 Nov 2021
  A “cookbook” for creating Good Health Pass (GHP) paper credentials and passes (PCP).
• GHP Holder Wallet Requirements and User Experience Considerations V1.0 (PDF)
  ToIP – Approved  •  11 Nov 2021
  Requirements for a consistent user experience, based on a model of universal acceptance.

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