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id: "toip-tsp-mid-year-2023"
type: "article"
type_label: "Articles, press releases and opinion"
title: "Mid-Year Progress Report on the ToIP Trust Spanning Protocol"
maintainer: "Trust over IP Foundation"
authors: []
date: "2023-08-31"
year: 2023
reading_level: "practitioner"
reading_level_label: "Practitioner"
reading_level_meaning: "architects, product people and adopters who know identity systems"
evidence: "informative"
evidence_meaning: "an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite"
status: "quiet"
status_meaning: "no change in six to eighteen months; still correct"
access: "public"
access_meaning: "anyone with the link"
topics:
  - "specifications"
  - "history"
roles:
  - "developer"
  - "security-architect"
  - "standards-policy"
  - "communications"
  - "investor"
  - "researcher"
source_url: "https://trustoverip.org/blog/2023/08/31/mid-year-progress-report-on-the-toip-trust-spanning-protocol/"
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abstract_license: "CC BY 4.0"
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# Mid-Year Progress Report on the ToIP Trust Spanning Protocol

A Trust over IP blog post of August 2023 reporting progress on the Trust Spanning Protocol (TSP), opening with verifiable identifiers as the first of its topics.

Labels: reading level Practitioner; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://trustoverip.org/blog/2023/08/31/mid-year-progress-report-on-the-toip-trust-spanning-protocol/ (license not recorded).
The abstract is KSKB's own text under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; credit KSKB, the KERISuite Knowledge Base (https://kskb.dev/).
Found through KERISSE, the KERI Suite Search Engine (Kor Dwarshuis and Henk van Cann), whose dataset is the source of the documents the base indexes.