2023-02-15 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

• Planning for OWF Aries Components Presentation
• LegacyPeer
• AIP 3 tasks

Date

15 Feb 2023 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

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Attendees                   

• Sam Curren(Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
• Warren Gallagher (AffinitiQuest.io) <warren@affinitiquest.io>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
• Alexandra Walker (Indicio) <alex.walker@indicio.tech>
• Kim Ebert (Indicio) <kim@indicio.tech>
• Thomas Diesler (RedHat) <tdiesler@redhat.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

Release Status and Work Updates

• Aries Agent Test Harness (https://aries-interop.info)
• Aries Shared Components - Indy SDK replacements
  • Shared Rust Library/CredX (AnonCreds) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-shared-rs
  • Indy Verifiable Date Registry - Ledger Interface https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
  • Aries Askar secure storage - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-askar
  • AnonCreds Rust - https://github.com/hyperledger/anoncreds-rs
• Frameworks:
  • Aries-CloudAgent-Python (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python, Meetings: ACA-Pug Meetings)
  • Aries-Framework-JavaScript (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript, Meetings: Framework JS Meetings)
    • Version 0.3.2 released - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGgUPPwa63g
    • PR from SICPA for DIDComm v2 on AFJ need help:
      • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/issues/1038
      • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/pull/1096
  • Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go, Meetings: aries-framework-go) 
  • Aries VCX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx)
  • Aries-Framework-DotNet (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-dotnet)
  • Picos as Aries agents (https://github.com/Picolab/aries-cloudagent-pico)
    • Phil Windley has students working on a DIDComm v2 version of ACA-Pico
• Mobile:
  • Aries Mobile Agent React Native, aka Aries Bifold (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native, Meetings: Aries Bifold User Group Meetings)
    • Bifold Summit Happening now – Bifold Summit 2023
    • BCGov has realeased an Aries Bifold version, rebranded w/ BC blue/theme/etc (BC wallet)
  • Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin aka Aries MAX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobileagent-xamarin)
• aries-mediator-service – a DIDComm Mediator in a Box
  • working on Pickup support
• aries-endorser-server – an Indy Endorser in a Box (in development)
• Aries-Toolbox
• Aries-SDK-Java
• Ursa (https://www.hyperledger.org/use/hyperledger-ursa, https://github.com/hyperledger/ursa)

Discussion Topics

• Open Wallet Foundation Component Presentation
  • Feb 20, noon US/Mountain
  • 60 min meeting, likely 45 for our presentation.
  • Scope will be Hyperledger Aries
  • We can present whatever we want.
  • Any UX has been mostly declared out of scope - just interested in 'wallet components'
  • I was not going to offer any of these things as direct code contributions (which has been common during other presentations)
  • I wanted to present to raise awareness
  • Proposal:
    • Introduce the Hyperledger Aries projects, with goals and history
    • Aries Askar / shared components
    • Aries Cloudagent Python
    • AFJ
      • Mention as underlying foundation for Aries Bifold
  • Ideally, we have a rep of each project share their project for a few minutes
  • This shows them the size and activity of the community
  • Open Issue: What is the future relationship of Aries and the Open Wallet Foundation?
  • Deck is in progress
• LegacyPeer DID Method
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/768
  • Community Coordinated Update?
  • Phase 1 - Everybody can read, defaults remain using old - April?
  • Phase 2 - Everybody switches default to fully qualified DIDs - June?
  • Phase 3 - Support for Old may be removed. - Sept?
• AIP 3.0 Tasks
  • https://hackmd.io/_Kkl9ClTRBu8W4UmZVGdUQ
  • Update Issue Credential and Present Proof to include .1 and .2 improvements
    • addition of explicit roles to indicate support for portions of the protocol flow
  • note to list which RFCs are included in the v2 spec
    • Lance Byrd will add this
  • Indy creds → Anoncreds
  • W3C format
  • BBS+ evolution
  • did:web RFC
    • Alex Andrei will do this
  • did:peer method 2 RFC ?
  • did:legacypeer Sam Curren 
  • UX / OCA / Supplements
  • actionmenu
  • push notifications
  • BLE / NFC for OOB (as QR alternative)
• OCA for Aries RFC update -- a summary of the recent changes
  • PR: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/755
  • RFC 0755 OCA for Aries: https://github.com/swcurran/aries-rfcs/blob/oca4aries/features/0755-oca-for-aries/README.md
  • RFC 0756 OCA for Aries Style Guide: https://github.com/swcurran/aries-rfcs/blob/oca4aries/features/0756-oca-for-aries-style-guide/README.md
  • Discussion

Other Business

Future Topics

• Thomas - Apache Camel AIP 1.0- done, touch base early next year.

• Issue Credential v2.1 learning
• State-of-union of Aries projects
• OIDC Credential Exchange in Aries - Mike Richardson
• decorator for redirection after proofs. - existing?

Action items

Call Recording