2019-08-29 Identity WG Implementers Call

Summary

Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom here https://zoom.us/j/232861185

Reminder to the host: we plan to record this call.

Date

29 Aug 2019 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Announcements

• Aries Workshop/Connectathon December 3-5 in Provo, Utah (details to follow)
• Hyperledger voting before September 3
• Other Announcements

Working Group Reports

• Main Identity WG
• Hyperledger Indy
  • No meeting on Monday. Next meeting: 2019-09-09 Indy Contributors Call
  • Release due out this week
    • Proof of Possession of a Payment Address added
    • Endorsing a 3rd party transaction support
    • Support for Ubuntu 18.04 and CentOS
    • For details see the video in Evernym Sprint Demos
  • View change protocol change due in September
• Indy Semantics WG
  • Review of progress on Rich Schemas effort
    • Node code is making good progress, working on strategies for threading models in the SDK
    • indy-resolver POC for a synchronous threading model
    • reviewing performance testing metrics going forward to understand the consequences of any changes
    • Went through data model that Paul, Robert and JanL are working on for consent collection.
• Hyperledger Aries
  • Both working group calls this week
• Hyperledger Ursa
  • Working on new ZKP techniques (ECC credentials, predicates: intervals, not equal, set inclusive, set exclusive)
  • Packaging more consumable (Ubuntu, RedHat, Suse packaging)
  • 0.2 release Sept 27th.
• Sovrin Network updates and extensions
  • Can test the Transaction Author Agreement, Sovrin Token, or Endorsing third-party transactions by emailing support@sovrin.org
  • Transaction Author Agreement will be required on Main Net in September.
• Sovrin Governance Frameworks and Trust Architecture
  • New revision of Transaction Author Agreement with Data Processor Addendum will be discussed in August 28 meeting.
  • New TAA should be more friendly internationally and for governments.
• W3C Verifiable Credentials and DID updates
  • VC Data Model specification is moving to Proposed Recommendation!

  • https://w3c.github.io/vc-data-model/

  • Completed work on the test suite, with some minor difficulties in the JWT parts of the test suite. At least two implementations of each feature.
  • Implementation guide work completing Aug. 31
  • Use cases document also completing Aug. 31
  • The  DID specification charter is being voted on to become a standards-track working group – if you org can vote, please support the charter
  • Hope to form the DID WG and hold the initial working group meeting at TPAC in September

  • Proposed charter for DID WG: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-wg-charter/

  • DID Final Community Group Report: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/CGFR/2019-08-10/

  • https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot9-prague/blob/rubrics/topics-and-advance-readings/rubrics.md

• Interop and External updates (Dmitri Zagidulin)
  • Draft specs for did:web method (tamper-evident and DNS-resistant measures taken via Hashlinks and other mechanism, do not worry) started over at: 
    https://github.com/w3c-ccg/did-method-web
  • Speaking of Hashlinks, a verrry early / raw draft implementation of a Javascript hashlink library is over at: https://github.com/digitalbazaar/hashlink
  • Recommended several startups in the identity space to join the Hyperledger Aries community, W3C Credentials Community Group and Solid project:
    • https://www.yoti.com/
    • https://www.nix.software/ (see their encryption/Identity API, for example)
  • Proposed integration with Google et al's (DTP) Data Transfer Project to Solid External Interop community

Topics and Demos

Aries SDK Architecture - Ken Ebert

• Proposed Aries surfaces: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ODtHCeB6x7yVGfhyJHFUKn0f070sqZXhff1C8M7jfTY/edit?ts=5d658905#slide=id.p

Open Discussion (Future Topics)

Next Meeting Topics

Future Topics

• Roadmap coordination between projects?

Action items

Call Recording