2023-09-13 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

• Unqualified DIDs
• LTS for Aries Codebases

Date

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

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Attendees                 

• Sam Curren  (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• DIF DIDComm Users Group Meets 2,3, and 4th Mondays: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-usergroup/blob/main/schedule.md
• Oct 10-12 IIW
• HL Member Summit Oct 23 in SF and Tokyo
• New Meeting Link - Check the HL Calendar for updates.

Release Status and Work Updates

• Aries Agent Test Harness -- https://aries-interop.info
• Aries Shared Components - Indy SDK replacements
  • Indy Verifiable Date Registry - Ledger Interface https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
    • Release 0.4.0-dev16
    • Release 0.5.0 will have breaking changes, including did:indy branch merged into main.
  • Aries Askar secure storage - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-askar
    • Release 0.2.9
  • AnonCreds Rust - https://github.com/hyperledger/anoncreds-rs
    • Release 0.1.0
  • Shared Rust Library/CredX (AnonCreds) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-shared-rs - being replaced by AnonCreds Rust
    • Release 0.3.3 Bugfix (bug was in the python wrapper)
      
    • Release 1.0.0 Embeds new AnonCreds CL Signatures library with fixes, performance improvements
• Frameworks:
  • Aries-CloudAgent-Python https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python, Meetings: ACA-Pug Meetings, Documentation: https://aca-py.org
    • Release 0.10.1 released yesterday. Notice to go out – Changelog Entry.
      • Fun times with PyPi forced the need for 0.10.1 after 0.10.0.
  • Aries-Framework-JavaScript https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript, Meetings: Framework JS Meetings
    
    • Version 0.4.0 released! - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/releases/tag/v0.4.0 - HUGE!
  • Aries VCX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx, Meetings: Aries-VCX Meetings
    
    • Release 0.56.0 https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/releases/tag/0.56.0
  • Picos as Aries agents (https://github.com/Picolab/aries-cloudagent-pico)
    • Phil Windley has students working on a DIDComm v2 version of ACA-Pico
  • Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go, Meetings: aries-framework-go) 
  • Time To Deprecate?
    • Aries-Framework-DotNet (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-dotnet)
• Mobile:
  • Aries Mobile Agent React Native, aka Aries Bifold https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native, Meetings: Aries Bifold User Group Meetings
    • 0.4.0 in Bifold – including the shared components
  • Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin aka Aries MAX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobileagent-xamarin)
• aries-mediator-service – a DIDComm Mediator in a Box
  • Update to use SocketDock?
• aries-endorser-service – an Indy Endorser in a Box (in development)

Discussion Topics

• Aries marketing update - Helen Garneau Alex Metcalf  
  • New Wiki page going live shortly: New Hyperledger Aries Draft
  • Longer description being added to Aries landing page on Hyperledger website, based on above Wiki page content: https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/aries
  • We are exploring resource for short Aries introductory animated video
  • Join our marketing working group meeting, last Tuesday of every month: Aries Marketing Working Group
• Unqualified DIDs
  • DID Rotation
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/794
  • did:peer:4
    • https://github.com/decentralized-identity/peer-did-method-spec/issues/58
  • DID Exchange with no DID Document / Signature - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/717
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/795
  • Community Coordinated Update
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/793
  • Aries Agent Test Harness update for testing support
• Long Term Support for Aries Projects
  • Hitachi Slides
  • Main Point Summary
    • Stable API note for projects.
    • Create LTS Policy (https://hyperledger.github.io/fabric-rfcs/text/0005-lts-release-strategy.html)
      • tl;dr - Support each LTS till 9 months after next LTS
    • Roadmap for next release (just to next release)
    • Set next for completion early next year.
  • Goal - Align LTS with AIP
• Open Discussion

Other Business

Future Topics

• Niels Klomp offered a deeper dive into the openid4vc related flows

• |State-of-union of Aries projects
• decorator for redirection after proofs. - existing?
• in the Aug 9 call there was talk about EUDI compatibility. Maybe tracking the progress every now and then in these calls? Has there been any discussion about adding SD-JWT and OID4VC stuff to Aries Interop test suite?

Action items

Call Recording: