TCF Meetings - 2025 - January

TCF Meetings - 2025 - January

Attendees

 

Discussion topics

1. GovSpec releases

BB

Status / owner

Comment

BB

Status / owner

Comment

Payments BB - CR #121

COMPLETED

Payments BB 3.0 published

  • To be presented at Tech committee

  • Communication of this released to be coordinated with comms team

  • Consent: #85 → v1.3

  • e-Signature: #90 → v1.1

  • Wallet: #47 → v1.1

  • ID: Note / #55 (blocked)

community review

@David Higgins

  • Most probably release to be finished this week

  • Next steps tbd

  • Craft the external communication about future of CFID and know we can put the ad-hoc on-boarding announcement

  • @Ali González / @David Higgins to coordinate date for extra CFID onboarding

CFR Architecture release

@Kristo Vaher

Registries BB stuck on defining CFRs

@Ali González

Need help or advisory from team on what to do

  • Bring this challenge to Arch WG

Implementation Playbook:

  • Arch Design CR #29

 

  • CE to test february pre-release of IP

  • March they intend to release v1.0

eIDAS Implementation guide:

@Ali González

  • @Ali González to work with Yuliia for merge and communicate

  • Check with Yuliia what has she thought about feedback mechanism

  • Feb 3, 2026 to be presented on tech committee

  • February will be for feedback, march to apply feedback, and end of march to release

IM 1.2

 

 

  • Ali to talk to maksim

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

 

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Notes

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BB-Specs release update:

  • Payments: #121 - Waiting for B2G, G2B - Note → possibly jumps to version 3 and or 4

  • Consent: #85 → v1.3

  • e-Signature: #90 → v1.1

  • Wallet: #47 → v1.1

  • ID: Note / #55 (blocked)

@Ali González

 

CFR Architecture release

@Kristo Vaher

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U49JSfXV2p_h4lRc-7q18wLWHPDqcKj4MLQmkZASfIg/edit?usp=sharing  

Communications for the week #90:

  • CFR architecture release

  • BB specs releases

 

 

Community health:

  • Onboarding calls update

  • Tech Committee call week 4

  • others

@Ali González

  • There a job posting for Mauritania. We’ll posting that on our internal channels

  • @Puja Raghavan has a db for women

  • We need to start a DB for the community

Agreements or tasks:

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Copy https://govstack.gitbook.io/cfr-architecture  to development branch

@Ali González

 

 

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

  • Payments 2.1

  • Registries X.X

  • IM 1.2

  • CMS 1.0-rc

  • Architecture specifications (CFR, common terminology, specification framework)

  • Payments 3.0 DONE!

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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)

 

Implementation Playbook 1.0 (incl. service design, architecture guidance and DPI chapter)

 

eIDAS Implementation Guide 1.0

 

A Trust Framework concept or outline for all ID-related BBs has been published and circulated internally.

 

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

 

Publish a blog post on the intersection of specifications and regulations (currently draft 0.9 with comments of Mikael to be incorporated)

 

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

 

Community

  • One Community Meet up

  • Two Onboarding Calls

  • Decide how to bring Alumni of all trainings together

 

AI Chatbot: Facilitator has been selected and WG has been formed and BB proposal has been handed in @Puja Raghavan

 

Link between Community and GovLearn is clarified:

  • Where can they place any Videos/webinars

  • How can they organize, conduct and communicate events

  • How can they publish document and communicate demos on sandbox

 

Website Updates:

  • Release Community Page

  • Release Market Page

  • GC Feedback on Landing Page

 

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

 

Publish version 0.9 of the machine-readable version for the specification (its schema)

 

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)

 

  • Present a decision proposal to GC on what parts of the Sandbox should be handed-over/maintained by the new GovStack Foundation