2023-03-23 Aries Framework JS Meeting notes

Meeting recording

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Attendees

• Timo Glastra  (Animo Solutions) <timo@animo.id>
• Simon Henriksen (Hyphen) <simon@hyphen.id>
• Alberto Antonio Leon (Instnt, Inc.) <alberto@instnt.org>
• Ariel Gentile (2060.io) <gentilester@gmail.com>
• James Ebert (Indicio) <james.ebert@indicio.tech>

Resources

• Hyperledger Discord: https://discord.gg/hyperledger (#aries-javascript and #aries-bifold)
• Aries JavaScript Docs: https://aries.js.org/
• Repositories:
  • Aries Framework JavaScript: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript
  • Aries Framework JavaScript Extension: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript-ext
  • Aries Mobile Agent React Native: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native

Status updates

• Aries Bifold (Aries Bifold User Group Meetings)
  • PR open for shared components (draft)
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native/pull/666
• Aries Call 2023-02-08 Aries Working Group Call
  • presentation on OCA bundles by Stephen Curran

    • https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1U35ZdoslOvRYsAXWz4YN1-pRV8TcGhWtFJSXU9IFpXk/edit?usp=sharing

• Releases
  • AFJ 0.4.0-alpha releases (74)
• DIDComm v2
• Aries Interop Profile 3.0 continues to be discussed https://hackmd.io/_Kkl9ClTRBu8W4UmZVGdUQ
• Shared Components
  • Indy VDR 0.1.0-dev.12
    • React Native & Node.JS
    • No support for older Android versions yet
  • Aries Askar 0.2.8-dev.6
    • React Native & Node.JS
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/pull/1211
    • ACA-Pug Call talking about Askar profiles: 2023-01-24 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
  • AnonCreds 0.1.0-dev.11
    
    • Node.JS
    • React Native
  • Berend made a demo: https://www.loom.com/share/8497e12cb1c64383aa01768ac2551078
• Open Source Summit in Vancouver
  • https://ossna2023.sched.com/event/1K58t?iframe=no

Agenda

• Record the meeting
• new time for the meeting
• GitHub runners limitations
  • not necessarily needed to support in-between versions of Node.JS (odd numbers)
    • reduces ci resource usage
• indy-vdr proxy
  • https://github.com/2060-io/aries-javascript-indy-vdr-proxy/tree/main/packages/server
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-did-networks/issues/3
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-did-method/issues/66
• Continue the conversation about “prioritisation for 0.5.0”
  
  • DIDComm v2
    • now that indy-sdk is gone, other libraries have DIDComm v2 support, main objective of AIP 3
    • Askar as backend for DIDComm v2? SICPA has implemented using didcomm v2 wasm library
    • support both libraries
  • Need to work on a new wallet api
    • focused on indy-sdk
    • still uses parameters for indy-sdk
    • way we are creating / opening the wallet is inherited from indy-sdk
  • Improving interfaces for message repository
    • fully support pickup v2 and v3 protocols
    • be a mediator without in memory message repository
  • Refactor basic message / trust ping to align with new way of doing things (support multiple versions of the protocol)
  • End user wallet perspective
    • key rotation
    • changing mediator
    • initialization, efficient way to check if the wallet key is valid

Meeting Notes

• New meeting invite:

  • Hyperledger Community is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
    
    Topic: Aries JavaScript Meeting
    Time: Mar 23, 2023 06:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
            Every week on Thu, until May 9, 2024, 60 occurrence(s)
    https://zoom.us/j/99751084865?pwd=TW1rU0FDVTBqUlhnWnY2NERkd1diZz09
    
    

Future topics

Future Topics:

• It would be good to discuss OCA implementation in AFJ and in Aries Bifold and where should be a boundary between the two in this feature.