2019-10-30-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Summary:

Planned:

• Test Suite

Note: This call is being recorded.

Date

30 Oct 2019 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 5AM Sydney)

Remember the Hyperledger Code of Conduct

Anti-Trust Policy:

Linux Foundation meetings involve participation by industry competitors, and it is the intention of the Linux Foundation to conduct all of its activities in accordance with applicable antitrust and competition laws. It is therefore extremely important that attendees adhere to meeting agendas, and be aware of, and not participate in any activities that are prohibited under applicable US state, federal or foreign antitrust and competition laws.

Examples of types of actions that are prohibited at Linux Foundation meetings and in connection with Linux Foundation activities are described in the Linux Foundation Antitrust Policy available at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/antitrust-policy . If you have questions about these matters, please contact your company counsel, or if you are a member of the Linux Foundation, feel free to contact Andrew Updegrove of the firm of Gesmer Updegrove LLP, which provides legal counsel to the Linux Foundation.

Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• Aries Workshop/Connectathon December 3-5 in Provo, Utah - Dates Confirmed, Food Sponsors welcome!
  • Please RSVP
• Sovrin Foundation Sovrin Governance Framework GDPR Docs—second public review (15 days) started Oct 23rd—see the links here
• Other Announcements

Related Meetings Review

• Ursa - Progress on packages and Plenum work.
• Semantics - Pilots underway
• DID UX Call - Slack/Mailing list - details in the shared document as well minutes and additional information, currently bootstrapping discussion about UX for defined personas
• Indy Contributors - Richard Esplin (Mon) - Discussed future of Indy Ledger (View Change, Aardvark BFT, bug fixes, future of Plenum)
• Identity WG / Identity WG Implementer calls (Wed / Thurs)

Upcoming Releases and Work Updates

• Aries Protocol Test Suite
  • Works, and ready for test contributions
• Aries Core Libraries (agent storage, resolvers, comms)
  • Moving Indy Wallet crate into aries-ams (might change the repo name)
    • SQLite as the default wallet.
    • aries-ams-sqlite is archived
  • Need to migrate Postgres wallet plugin from Indy to aries-ams-postgres
  • Future:
    • Verifiable Data Registry Interface library
    • Static Peer DIDs in aries-vdri as the default implementation
    • aries-vdri-peer is archived
• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov) - Release 0.3.5 Coming Soon - caching updates.
  • Continuing to learn about performance/storage impacts of using Aries protocols and non-secrets interface.
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy)
  • Weekly planning notes (2019-10-22)
  • DID Exchange invitations can now include ledger DIDs (in addition to the underlying peer DID support).
    
    • Ledger DIDs BDD tested using Sidetree protocol with both mock ledger (CI) and fabric ledger (CI) implementations.
    • Help wanted to additionally support Indy in the BDD tests.
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
  • Project is featured on Ruby-Flow (http://www.rubyflow.com/p/ofdqjq-ruby-sdk-for-hyperledger-aries)
  • Updated to 0.0.6 at RubyGems https://rubygems.org/gems/aries-sdk-ruby
  • Rails sample project using aries-sdk-ruby at https://github.com/johncallahan/aries-rails
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav) Transaction Authors/Endorser support for Indy.
• Aries-SDK-Python - PR from JeromeK - weigh-in from those interested in Python wrapper would be appreciated.
• Aries-SDK-Java - Usually Wed Evenings
• Aries-SDK-JavaScript - Contributors are now meeting on every Fridays - 
  • Meeting details are here - Framework JS Meetings 
  • See current plan here - 2019-09-24 Meeting notes
• Indy
  • Migrating from Indy SDK
    • Closing PRs related to Indy wrappers with pointers to Aries language libraries
    • Adding LibVCX support for some Aries protocols
      • Trouble when testing with ACA-Py as an issuer.
        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python/pull/239
        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python/pull/240
        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python/pull/241
        • Conversations about RFCs versus working implementations.
• Ursa

Agenda

• Review open tickets; which can be resolved? (15 min - Stephen C)
• Signed attachments, ~sig, etc (15 min - Kyle, Troy)
• Cutting over to didcomm.org (15 min - Daniel H)
• Socialize test suite RFC (5 min - Daniel H) 
• Delegatable creds and consent receipts (30 min - George A, Jan L)
• Open Discussion / Next Week Topics

Next Week

Future Topics

• Link handling to open Mobile Agents
• DIF Interop Project - Project is proceeding, connect the communities at IIW
• DKMS status
• Rolling agent upgrades
• Signature Envelope (Kyle)
  • Updating to JWE compliant data model
• Credential Fraud:  Example how in ACA-Py to verify same link secret across multiple credentials in presentation
• Using WebSocket as a way to communicate back to the mobile/desktop wallet (Agent (services or user) as a proxy for communication between service and digital wallet) Robert Mitwicki
• Update message type and protocol identifier to https. (and protocol documentation hosting.) 
• Formal protocol verification techniques
  • https://github.com/SvenHammann90/SSI/blob/master/RWOT_9/Topic_Paper_RWOT.md (using ProVerif)
  • https://github.com/johncallahan/needham_shroeder_spin (non-Aries example using SPIN/Promela)

Action items

Call Recording