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+# Confidential Computing Consortium
+
+## Minutes of the Technical Advisory Council
+
+*The TAC meets for two hours on alternating Thursdays. All members of the community are welcome to attend and participate.*
+
+### Meeting details
+
+**Date**: Thursday, December 11, 2025
+
+**Time**: 8a-9a US Pacific Time
+
+* **Zoom**: [https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/94618773737?password=4b2a5cdf-685a-4ea3-822d-24ff7ddab72e] 
+
+* **Calendar**: [https://calendar.confidentialcomputing.io](https://calendar.confidentialcomputing.io),
+[ical](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c\_c0pcihr7n2n1k3a38i32d9ag10%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics),
+[Google Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r?cid=c\_c0pcihr7n2n1k3a38i32d9ag10@group.calendar.google.com)
+
+* **Recordings**: [YouTube TAC Playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmfkUJc39uMjaB_I1dYW72I44kr9QzG_B)
+
+## Links
+
+* **Code of Conduct**: [code-of-conduct.confidentialcomputing.io](https://code-of-conduct.confidentialcomputing.io)
+* **CCC Charter**: [charter.confidentialcomputing.io](https://charter.confidentialcomputing.io)
+* **LF Training course on DEI**: [Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation (LFC102) (free)](https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/inclusive-open-source-community-orientation-lfc102/)
+* **Declared project dependencies**: [Google Sheets](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UKnbbGWXYLjnPZsox3zmYo59nv3XSXjePfas5E2fER0/edit#gid=0)
+* **CCC YouTube**: [youtube.confidentialcomputing.io](https://youtube.confidentialcomputing.io)
+* **LFX**: [lfx.linuxfoundation.org](https://lfx.linuxfoundation.org)
+* **Join the CCC**: [join.confidentialcomputing.io](https://join.confidentialcomputing.io)
+* **Contact the CCC**: [confidentialcomputing.io/contact-us/](https://confidentialcomputing.io/contact-us/)
+
+## Agenda and Minutes
+
+### Welcome
+
+* Dan Middleton (DM) opened the call at 8:04 am PT
+* DM welcomed the members of the TAC and reviewed the values of the CCC and the antitrust policy of the Linux Foundation
+* Renu Chauhan (RC) created meeting minutes.
+* DM reviewed the agenda
+
+
+### Roll Call / Attendance
+
+A quorum was not achieved
+
+#### Voting members of the TAC
+
+*Per the [charter](https://charter.confidentialcomputing.io), all [CCC Premier members](https://confidentialcomputing.io/members/) receive one vote on the TAC. Quorum for votes is at least 50% of voting members present.*
+
+* AMD - Nathaniel McCallum / David Kaplan
+* Arm - Paul Howard+  
+* Google -  Rene Kolga+ / Keith Moyer+
+* Huawei - Zhipeng (Howard) Huang 
+* Intel - Raynor Scott+ / Simon Johnson
+* Meta - Henry Wang / Kevin Hui
+* Microsoft - Alec Fernandez
+* Nvidia - Fritz Alder / Dan Middleton+
+* Red Hat -  Yash Mankad+ / Ram Pai 
+* TikTok -  Mingshen Sun+ / Yao Zhang
+* Shielded Technologies - Bob Blessing-Hartley 
+
+   " + " indicates attending
+
+#### Other Attendees
+* Bartłomiej Sulich
+* Benjamin Landman
+* Benny Fuhry
+* Caroline (MSFT)  
+* Ding (Confidential Containers/Alibaba)  
+* Henk Birkholz
+* Jeff Kuhn  
+* Jens Albers (Fr0ntierX Inc) 
+* Mark Novak 
+* Mona Vij (Intel Corporation) 
+* Mikko Ylinen (Intel)
+* Ofir Azoulay-Rozanes (Anjuna) 
+* Renu Chauhan (Linux Foundation)
+* Ryan Savino  
+* Samuel Ortiz (Rivos Inc)  
+* Steven Bellock (NVidia)
+* Sungho Yoon(Samsung)
+* Tobin  
+
+ ## Welcome New Community Members
+Rene Kolga introduced themselves to the meeting.
+
+## Meeting Minute Approval & Old Business
+* Meeting minutes will be approved via GitHub. DM reviewed the old Business covered in the previous meeting. 
+
+## Announcements
+DM shared the election results, mentioning that DM will be chairing the TAC for 2026, while Ijal shall be continuing as the Vice-Chair for 2026. 
+He shared the TAC Topics for 2026, which need to be planned.DM shared that the next TAC meeting will be on January 08, 2026, and today’s meeting will be the last one for this year. 
+DM explained that the budget for 2026 is a balanced one and requested to take a look at the budget in January 2026.
+Mona Vij requested details about the criteria used for selecting top projects and suggested revisiting the process, with a possibility of creating new criteria for future evaluations. DM acknowledged the subjective nature of the current criteria and invited proposals for more objective ones.
+Yash Mankad announced that he would send out a year-end review for the TAC early next week, highlighting the group's achievements, including the launch of the TWI SIG and voting on project proposals.
+
+## New Business
+Ding presented Trustee, a general-purpose attestation verifier and broker designed to standardise attestation protocols and key management across different clouds and Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs).  The TAC members discussed the architecture and functionality of the Trustee service, focusing on its alignment with the RATS (Remote Attestation Service) model.
+[Slide](CCC_Trustee_Presentation_2025-12-11.pdf)
+
+## Thanks, Yash!
+DM extended thanks to Yash for his contributions as Vice Chair and his work on the mentor program.
+
+## Any Other Business / Topic Schedule 2025
+
+Next meeting is scheduled on January 08,2026. The meeting was adjourned by DM at 08:59 am PT