2021-04-8 : Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

On Today's Call:

Review: Working Group status updates
Presentation: Daniel Bachenheimer (Principal Director at Accenture) will be presenting on the Known Traveler Digital Identity (KTDI; World Economic Forum initiative) and how it uses SSI / Hyperledger Indy stack.

Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom: https://zoom.us/my/hyperledger.community.3?pwd=UE90WHhEaHRqOGEyMkV3cldKa2d2dz09

Date

08 Apr 2021 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

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Attendees

Name (Organization) <email>
Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
Sam Curren (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
Lynn Gray Bendixsen(Indicio) <lynn@indicio.tech>
Daniel Bachenheimer (Accenture) <daniel.bachenheimer@accenture.com>
ROLAND FAURE Aerosurete <roland.faure@aerosurete.com>

Announcements

IIW Workshop #32 (April 20-22, 2021), online, https://internetidentityworkshop.com
Hyperledger Global Forum 2021 (June 8-10) - https://www.hyperledger.org/event/hyperledger-global-forum-2021

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

Main Identity WG
- Meeting Notes: 2021-03-31
  - Darrell O'Donnell presented the latest advances in Digital Wallets.
  - Original 2019 presentation: 2019-12-11
  - New 2021 presentation recording: zoom_0.mp4

Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG
- 2021-03-30 Indy Contributors Call
  - Indy Node
    - CI for Indy Node - merged
    - CD for Indy Node - ready, but waiting waiting on Plenum
    - Stable to Master merge - in review
    - Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade - close
  - Indy SDK
    - CI/CD for Indy-SDK looks good – in review
    - Jenkins/GHAs will run both in parallel while GHA is finalized
  - Indy Contribution Campaign - ?
  - Hyperledger Contribution Campaign
  - Sovrin Network Upgrade process:
    - Release 1: Another 16.04 using the new CI/CD code plus the Post-Feb. 2020 changes
    - Release 2: Ubuntu 20.04 matching Release 1. Stewards will create a new 20.04 node and remove their 16.04 node

Hyperledger Aries
- Aries Working Group meetings:
  - Meeting Agenda & Notes: Aries Working Group
  - WG A: 2021-04-07-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
    - Presentation on the "Trustworthy Data Mesh" by Robert Mitwicki
  - WG B: 2021-04-07-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
    - Regular Topic: Mobile Topics
    - AIP Next
      - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/579 (Main AIP 2.0 PR)
      - PR 613 - Problem Report
      - PR 617 - Coordinate Mediation
      - PR 626 - DID Exchange Recipient Keys
      - AIP 2.0 PRs
- Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
  - Release 0.6.0 tagged and image posted.
  - Recently Merged:
    - BDD test suite of integration tests that supplement the AATH tests – different startup options, e.g. multi-tenancy, mediator, etc.
  - In Progress:
    - Credential Exchange V2 (0454)
    - Shared Components: Fully functional branch that uses the shared libraries, not indy-sdk
    - Getting to W3C Verifiable Credential support with ZKP and Selective Disclosure
    - DIF Presentation Exchange
- Aries Bifold User Group (React Native & Typscript)
- Aries Language Frameworks, Libraries, and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
- Tools (great for interoperability testing)
  - Aries Toolbox – supports ACA-Py 5.3 https://github.com/thclab/aries
  - Aries Protocol Test Suite - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-protocol-test-suite
  - Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-agent-test-harness

Hyperledger Ursa
- Homepage: Hyperledger Ursa
- 2021-03-31 Meeting Agenda
  - Discussion of Dave Huseby's identity protocol and discussion about a follow-up paper.
  - PR #176 discussion
  - SOK discussion led by Mike L.
  - Looking for volunteers

Trust Over IP Foundation
- Main site: https://trustoverip.org/
- Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation
- All Members Meeting
  - 17 Mar 2021: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-03-17+All+Members+Meeting+Notes
    - Slides: Trust over IP Foundation - All-Member Meeting 03.17.21.pdf
    - Recording
    - ToIP Charter
    - Good Health Pass - becoming a full ToIP project effort
    - ToIP Whitepaper v2 underway
- Steering Committee Meeting
  - 7 April 2021: no published notes, yet.
    - Updates on Good Health Project
      - 9 drafting groups
      - 53 organizations have joined
      - Co-Chairs: Rebecca Distler (ID 2020) and Kaliya Young (Identity Woman)
    - Publishing a Letter of Agreement for collaborations with Sovrin
    - Next meetings being shifted to week of April 26 due to IIW
  - 23/24 Mar 2021: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=74256
    - Presentation slides: Trust over IP - Steering Committee - Good Health Pass WG - Mar23 2021.pdf
    - Recording: LINK (3/23) and LINK (3/24)
    - Proposal: Interoperability Working Group for Good Health Pass
      - Partnership of many health-related organizations
      - Website: https://www.goodhealthpass.org
      - Whitepaper: Download the white paper
    - Role of ID2020 (intro by Dakota Gruener, Exec Dir of ID2020)
- ToIP Working Groups:
  - Communications Committee: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Communications+Committee
  - Governance Stack
  - Technical Stack - Interoperability Taskforce
  - Utility Foundry
  - Ecosystem Foundry
  - Decentralized Semantics
  - Concepts and Terminology

DIF DIDComm Working Group
- Rolling Agenda: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm/blob/main/agenda.md
- 22 Mar 2021 meeting
  - PRs
    - 170 - Restructure to solve image display issues.
    - 172 - Fix inconsistencies with to/next attributes in a forward message.
    - 171 - media type discussion
    - 167 - accept property
    - 161 - Attachments WIP
      - Encrypted Attachments https://hackmd.io/jx8W0boDSzmLe2r6LKQU5w
  - Issues
    - 165 - cty of JWM
    - 162 - Rewrapping forwarded messages. - awaiting PR
DIF Interoperability Group
- Main: https://identity.foundation/interop/
- Wiki: https://www.notion.so/Interoperability-WG-a42995c37e2a4511a10aea96cdbccc38
- Rolling agenda: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/interoperability/blob/master/agenda.md
  - 7 April 2021:
    - Manu Sporny of Digital Bazaar (US) will be discussing the new VC Status List spec at CCG and how it could relate to VC Refresh and other next-generation flows.
Sovrin Foundation
- Technical Governance Board (TGB)
  - 1 April 2021 Meeting Minutes:
    - Upgrade of Sovrin
    - Status of Indy DID method - https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/indy/Indy+DID+Method+Specification
    - Daniel’s update to the Sovrin Security Policy - https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/sovrin-sip/tree/master/text/5005-preliminary-security-review
- Steward Council
  - Rolling Agenda:
  - 1 April 2021
    - Make LibIndy easier to use for app developers (Steve McCown)
      - Methods for Wrapping Rust Code (using Mozilla Uniffi - https://github.com/mozilla/uniffi-rs) 
      - Presentation slides attached (https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/IWG/2021-03-25+%3A+Identity+Implementers+WG+Call)
    - Health / Monitoring (Wade) 
      - New plug-in architecture 
      - Good list of tickets for new contributors in issue #24
      - Updating the node selection algorithm
    - Technical Workstream (Wade) 
      - Indy upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 
        Works on Ubuntu 20.04, but CI pipeline is not complete. Need contributors. 
        Migrating release artifacts to Hyperledger Artifactory. 
      - Token Plugin: 
        Devin Smith has taken over from Anmol. 
        Existing builds have been fixed. 
        Working on upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 
        Plans to switch to GitHub Actions after upgrade.
      - Sovrin Deb
        Merge from Stable to Master is ready for review 
    - Steward Community
      - Vote on removing the Sovrin Token: 11 keep / 11 remove

W3C Standard
- Verifiable Credentials Working Group
- DID Working Group

Other?

Presentation:

Future Topics

Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org)