TCF Meetings - 2025 - January
Attendees
Discussion topics
1. GovSpec releases
BB | Status / owner | Comment |
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Payments BB - CR #121 | COMPLETED | Payments BB 3.0 published
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community review @David Higgins |
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CFR Architecture release | @Kristo Vaher |
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Registries BB stuck on defining CFRs | @Ali González | Need help or advisory from team on what to do
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Implementation Playbook:
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eIDAS Implementation guide: | @Ali González |
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IM 1.2
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Workflow |
| Ali to talk to maksim to see how to integrate workflow to rest of specs use case guide status |
CMS |
| Talk to Daniel about his WG and publication process See when to publish as there is current porject in Senegal |
2. Community health / managing
Tech Committee calls
Jan 27, 2026 - Presentation of Payments BB 3.0 and CFID BB releases
Feb 3, 2026 - Presentation of eIDAS implementation guide feedback mechanism
3. Communications Planning
GovStack presence in Brussels:
Kurt is giving a talk
“If you want to meet we’ll be there”
@Ali González to draft a comms paragraph to deliver to Martha
GovStack communication processes
@Martha Mundas shared the events tracker.
@Martha Mundas to help David get access to GIZ’d govstack sharepoint
@Martha Mundas to add @Ali González to Communications Hall meeting to coordinate release communications
Release communications for January-February-March
eIDAS feedback mechanism - confirmed
Payments BB 3.0 - confirmed
CFID releases and next steps - to be confirmed by Monday Feb 2, 2026
Onboarding calls: Feb 4, 2026 10:00-11:00 CET and 17:00-18:00 CET. Everyone filling out the Join our tech community form will be invited
Implementation Playbook - pre-release feedback cycle on february. To be confirmed around tuesday Feb 3, 2026 and final release estimated on march. GovStack ambassadors training to be confirmed
Item | Owner | Notes |
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BB-Specs release update: | @Ali González |
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CFR Architecture release | @Kristo Vaher | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U49JSfXV2p_h4lRc-7q18wLWHPDqcKj4MLQmkZASfIg/edit?usp=sharing |
Communications for the week #90:
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Community health:
| @Ali González |
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Agreements or tasks:
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Copy https://govstack.gitbook.io/cfr-architecture to development branch
| @Ali González |
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OKRs for the quarter:
OKRs alignment
https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GH/pages/1733951489/OKR+Q1+2026?atl_f=PAGETREE
Objective 1: The range and the quality of GovStack’s global offerings has been extended by new public releases or internal mechanisms:
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BB Specifications
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Guidance and communication for the working groups on how to adhere to new architecture specification has been share (e.g. how to write CFR on specifications: both their own, and the Core CFR ones is provided to WG) |
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Implementation Playbook 1.0 (incl. service design, architecture guidance and DPI chapter) |
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eIDAS Implementation Guide 1.0 |
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A Trust Framework concept or outline for all ID-related BBs has been published and circulated internally. |
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A country feedback mechanism has been tested (depending on ITU, GIZ and EstDev collaboration) based on https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GH/pages/1420623878 |
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Publish a blog post on the intersection of specifications and regulations (currently draft 0.9 with comments of Mikael to be incorporated) |
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Objective 2: Ensure the community is healthy;
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For this, identify the tooling, channels and rituals needed, and 1) operate the stablished ones, 2) socialize the new ones, 3) continue developing the needed ones and, 4) document any identified gaps and propose solutions |
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Community
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AI Chatbot: Facilitator has been selected and WG has been formed and BB proposal has been handed in @Puja Raghavan |
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Link between Community and GovLearn is clarified:
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Website Updates:
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Objetive 3: WiGTC
Objective 4: Specification publication and compliance testing process is enhanced
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Have a machine readable version 0.0.9 published for all specifications - to be meta-spec by Q2 |
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Publish version 0.9 of the machine-readable version for the specification (its schema) |
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A prototype of machine-readable specifications (Wallet BB) has been developed (covering parsing specs from gitbook to github json to Compliance WebApp, optionally test editing and reading UI or ITB) |
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