2019-12-18-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Summary:

Planned Topics:

• Transition Message Types
• Connectathon Topics (continued)

Note: This call is being recorded.

Date

18 Dec 2019 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>
• George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• New Indy/Aries/Ursa edX course, now online - enroll now!
• Dec 25th and Jan 1st calls canceled for holidays
• Updated Hyperledger Calendar: Calendar of Public Meetings

Related Meetings Review

• Ursa - Progress on packages and Plenum work.
• Semantics - ODCA pilots underway - The agenda, video, notes, etc. from the HL Indy Semantics WG call: 
  • Read more: https://odca.online and https://tool.odca.online
  • Fully functional parser: https://github.com/THCLab/odca-ruby
• DID UX Call - Slack/Mailing list - details in the shared document as well minutes and additional information, currently focus on Purpose Based Services
• SSI in IoT WG
• Indy Contributors - Richard Esplin (Mon) - 
• Identity WG / Identity WG Implementer calls (Wed / Thurs)

Upcoming Releases and Work Updates

• Aries Protocol Test Suite
• Aries Shared:
  • Aries KMS
  • Verifiable Data Registry Interface (VDRI) library
  • Other Core Libraries (pack / unpack)
• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov) - Latest is Release 0.4.0 on PyPi - some internal breaking changes regarding plugins
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
  • 2019-12-17 Framework Go Weekly Planning
  • RFC implementation status and Wishlist
  • Continuing efforts on routing & relays, crypto/kms, WebAssembly, generic JSON messages, JWE envelopes.
  • WASM is working for DID Exchange from a browser (running the WASM) to a routing agent. Next we want to show DID Exchange between browsers.
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
• Aries-StaticAgent-Python - Now up to 0.6.1; more details
• Aries-Toolbox
• Aries-SDK-Python - Wrapper from JeromK and SBCA?
• Aries-SDK-Java
• Aries-Framework-JavaScript / Aries-SDK-JavaScript
  • As agreed in the connect-a-thon, planning efforts on merging the aries-sdk-javascript codebase into a single framework repo - aries-framework-javascript
  • Starting with the efforts on the React-Native Mobile Agent.
• Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
  • HIPEs/RFCs
    • overview https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/concepts/0250-rich-schemas
    • context https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/features/0249-rich-schema-contexts
    • schema processing feedback https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/features/0281-rich-schemas 
  • Next HIPEs/RFCs for
    • encoding
    • mapping
    • credential definition 
  • Node implementation of
    • context (merged)
    • schema PR in progress https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/pull/1513
• Migration from LibIndy
  • LibVCX 0.5.0 with Aries protocol support released today.
• Ursa 0.3.0 release in November
  • Updated BLS signature (multi-signatures, small-BLS)
  • Compilation optimization for specific hardware
  • Rest of predicates for Anoncreds 2.0 and delegatable credentials
  • ZMix 0.1.0 expected in January
    • Ursa and ZMix will be separate releases. ZMix is the proving code, and Ursa is everything else.

Agenda

• Issue Game: Can we close this? (15 min - Sam Curren) - issues (as time permits): 
  • #256, #144, #239, #146
• Transition Message Type to HTTPs (15 min - Stephen Curran)
• Connectathon Update (Continued)
  • Biometrics
  • Shared Library Development
  • Schema 2.0
  • Inline Keys
  • DIF DIDComm WG
• Open Discussion / Next Week Topics

Next Week

Future Topics

• Use cases for RFC 335 (HTTP over DIDComm)
• DIF Interop Project - Project is proceeding, connect the communities at IIW
• DKMS status
• Independent 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
• Schema interop - how to reused schema across different networks Robert Mitwicki(RFC in progress)
• 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