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Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/93803916577?pwd=UWdLSTJ2b0kvZTRyc1hZTUdQQ3ZFZz09

Recording:  

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url http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z-b7CYzgfdo

Date

24 Jan 2024 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

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Attendees

• Sam Curren  (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• Reference implementation of SD-JWT in Rust (contributed by DSR Corporation to OWF labs): https://github.com/openwallet-foundation-labs/sd-jwt-rust, https://crates.io/crates/sd-jwt-rsbruce_conrad@byu.edu (Pico Labs) <picolabs@sanbachs.com>
• Alex Metcalf (BC Gov) <alex.metcalf@gov.bc.ca>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

Release Status and Work Updates

• Aries Agent Test Harness -- https://aries-interop.info
• Aries Shared Components - Indy SDK replacements
  • Indy Verifiable Date Registry - Ledger Interface https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
    • PR merged for caching in Indy VDR of Pool Transactions - Aries Frameworks should be adding that to
    • Release 0.4.0
    • Release 0.5.0 will have breaking changes, including did:indy branch merged into main.
  • Aries Askar secure storage - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-askar
    • Release 0.2.9
  • AnonCreds Rust - https://github.com/hyperledger/anoncreds-rs
    • Release 0.1.0
  • Shared Rust Library/CredX (AnonCreds) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-shared-rs - being replaced by AnonCreds Rust
    • Release 0.3.3 Bugfix (bug was in the python wrapper)
      
    • Release 1.0.0 Embeds new AnonCreds CL Signatures library with fixes, performance improvements
• Frameworks:
  • Aries-CloudAgent-Python https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python, Meetings: ACA-Pug Meetings, Documentation: https://aca-py.org
    • 0.10.5 Adds an important JSON-LD VC verification update
    • 0.11.0 has a full set of updates (includes 0.10.5 fix)
    • Addition of AnonCreds Rust library into ACA-Py now in main, using new wallet-type "askar-anoncreds"
      • Moving to ledger agnostic AnonCreds
    • .12.0rc0 – Peer DID support, many enhancement/fixes, nothing breaking yet but at least one will be made before finalized.
      • This could be 1.0.0 as well...
    • Traction Sandbox now available - https://traction-sandbox-tenant-ui.apps.silver.devops.gov.bc.ca
      • Workshop Tutorial for using Traction, AnonCreds and Aries 
      • Repo - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-acapy-controllers/tree/main/TractionIssuanceDemo
  • Agent-Framework-JavaScript  https://github.com/openwallet-foundation/agent-framework-javascript, Meetings: Framework JS Meetings
    
    • Accepted by TAC in OWF, repository has moved. See initial announcement here: https://github.com/openwallet-foundation/agent-framework-javascript/discussions/1586#discussioncomment-7815973
    • Looking for a new name, feel free to weigh in here: https://github.com/openwallet-foundation/agent-framework-javascript/discussions/1668
    • 0.5 in the works
      • Dropping IndySDK
      • AnonCreds Revocation
      • Dropping Node 16 support (EOL)
    • Continuing working on SD-JWT and OpenID4VC support
    • Started work on W3C issuance and verification of AnonCreds credentials
    • PR open for did:peer:4 support and did rotate protocol
  • Aries VCX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx, Meetings: Aries-VCX Meetings
    
    • aries-vcx as repository now contains 2 project families:
      
      • aries
      • didcore
  • Picos as of pico-engine version 1.3.0 natively use DIDComm v2 (https://github.com/Picolab/pico-engine/blob/master/packages/pico-engine/README.md)
    • replacing ACA-Pico agents (https://github.com/Picolab/aries-cloudagent-pico) which are now deprecated
    • protocols implemented so far: oob invitation, trust-ping, basicmessage (more to be added https://github.com/Picolab/DIDComm-V2)
    • based on the SICPA didcomm NodeJS module
  • Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go, Meetings: aries-framework-go) 
• Mobile:
  • Aries Mobile Agent React Native, aka Aries Bifold https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native, Meetings: Aries Bifold User Group Meetings
    • 0.4.0 in Bifold – including the shared components
  • Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin aka Aries MAX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobileagent-xamarin)
• aries-mediator-service – a DIDComm Mediator in a Box
  • Update to use SocketDock?
• aries-endorser-service – an Indy Endorser in a Box (in development)
• Aries Akrida - Load Testing DIDComm based protocols
  • Added module support for different Issuer and Verifiers

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• Annual Report Update – Draft Aries Report, TOC Annual Report Requirements
• PR Review
  • Unqualified DIDs CCU Status Update https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/810
  • W3C DI Attach https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/809
  • DIDComm JSON-RPC https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/804
  • Trust Input Protocol https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/803
• Aries RFC Status Changes Needed
  • What needs to change?
• Open Discussion
  • Interop between ACA-Py and Veramo
    • Issue of DIDComm v1 (ACA-Py) and v2 (Veramo)
  • Aries Agent Test Harness
    • Peer did tests
    • needs an update to the credo (afj) backchannel
      • aca-py has some tooling that allows easier testing, porting those to credo would be very helpful
      • (agent launch configurations)
    • volunteers welcome.
  • Interopathon?
    • JFF PlugFest involvement
    • Other community specific event?
      • AIP v2
      • DIDComm v2 adoption
    • Survey for interop events
      • targets
      • actions
      • dates - March?
    • marketing call next tuesday
  • protocol updates for DIDComm v2?
    • only some.

Other Business

Future Topics

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• State-of-union of Aries projects
• decorator for redirection after proofs. - existing?
• in the Aug 9 call there was talk about EUDI compatibility. Maybe tracking the progress every now and then in these calls? Has there been any discussion about adding SD-JWT and OID4VC stuff to Aries Interop test suite?

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