2021-03-25 : Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

On Today's Call:

Review: Working Group status updates
Presentation: Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) will give a presentation on how to simplify creating language wrappers for Rust libraries to help them port to more platforms.

Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom: https://zoom.us/my/hyperledger.community.3?pwd=UE90WHhEaHRqOGEyMkV3cldKa2d2dz09

Date

25 Mar 2021 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Name (Organization) <email>
Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

Announcements

IIW Workshop #32 (Apr 2021), online, https://internetidentityworkshop.com
Hyperledger Global Forum 2021 (June 8-10) - https://www.hyperledger.org/event/hyperledger-global-forum-2021

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

Main Identity WG
- Meeting Notes: 2021-03-03
  - Drummond Reed presented an overview of his new book on Self-Sovereign Identity (https://www.manning.com/books/self-sovereign-identity)

Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG
- 2021-03-02 Indy Contributors Call
  - CI for Indy Node & Plenum - merged
  - CD for Indy Node & Plenum - in progress
  - CI/CD for Indy-SDK - in progress
  - Looking for additional volunteers
- Next Indy-Node release – soon, pending CD completion
- Ubuntu 20.04 - progressing, target release date?
- PR from Indy-Node and Indy-Plenum Stable to Master - PR is ready for review
- Upcoming
  - Statement on the future of the Indy SDK: PR 2329

Hyperledger Aries
- GREEN! Hyperledger Aries Proposal to Exit Incubation Status
- Aries Working Group meetings:
  - Meeting Agenda & Notes: Aries Working Group
  - WG A: 2021-03-10-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
    - Verifiable Credential - Overview of data models, VDR, revocation mechanism - demo with KERI based identifiers
      - Presentation: google doc access request link
  - WG B: 2021-03-10-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
    - AIP Next (completed/close?)
      - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/579 (Main AIP 2.0 PR)
      - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/596 - did:key
      - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/588 - oob / route coordination
      - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/593 - JSON-LD Attachments
      - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/595 - oob mime type
      - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/587 - Envelope v2
      - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/599 - Complexity of multiple format identifiers
- Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
  - Release 0.6.0 (almost) available, includes
    - OOB/DID Exchange support merged – testing/tweaking
    - Adjustments for supporting aries-askar – mostly internal
    - Multi-Tenant Support - SICPA and collaborators (Animo, Anon Solutions)
    - Mediator Support – Indicio - ACA-Py as mediator, ACA-Py as mediator client (through connections protocol) merged; Admin API, fixes in progress; need to add support for DID Exchange/OOB
  - In Progress:
    - Persistent Queues – Kiva – WIP PR submitted using redis
    - Credential Exchange V2 (RFC 0453/0454)
    - Getting to W3C Verifiable Credential support with ZKP and Selective Disclosure with Revocation.
      - DHS SVIP JSON-LD Verifiable Credential exchange in Aries Protocols
      - https://hackmd.io/@animo/acapy-bbs-2
- Aries Bifold User Group
  - 2021-03-10 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting
    - Discussed group goals, license issues, etc.
    - Existing Code Walkthrough
      - Aries Bifold: https://github.com/Indicio-tech/aries-bifold
      - Aries Mobile Agent React Native - https://github.com/Indicio-tech/aries-mobileagent-react-native
      - Aries Framework Javascript: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript
      - rn-indy-sdk: https://github.com/AbsaOSS/rn-indy-sdk
  - Rocket Chat Channel: https://chat.hyperledger.org/channel/aries-bifold
- Aries Language Frameworks, Libraries, and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
- Tools (great for interoperability testing)
  - Aries Toolbox – supports ACA-Py 5.3 https://github.com/thclab/aries
  - Aries Protocol Test Suite - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-protocol-test-suite
  - Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-agent-test-harness

Hyperledger Ursa
- Homepage: Hyperledger Ursa
- 2021-03-03 Meeting Agenda
  - HGF Talks: coordinate?
  - Follow-up on ZK frameworks
  - General adherence to Hyperledger standards (repolinter, etc.).
  - Hardware interface: updates or interest?
  - Discussion on wrapping/signature interface
  - Oberon protocol

Trust Over IP Foundation
- Main site: https://trustoverip.org/
- Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation
- All Members Meeting
  - 17 Feb 2021: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-02-17+All+Members+Meeting+Notes
    - Slides: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-02-17+All+Members+Meeting+Notes?preview=/73682/73694/Trust%20over%20IP%20Foundation%20-%20All-Member%20Meeting%2002.17.21.pdf
    - Good Health Pass Initiative
    - ToIP Whitepaper v2 underway
- Steering Committee Meeting
  - 10 Mar 2021: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-03-10+Steering+Committee+Meeting+Page
  - Presentation slides: Steering Committee Meeting Agenda 03.10.21.pdf
  - Recording: Link
  - Good Health Pass
    - Partnership of many health-related organizations
    - Website: https://www.goodhealthpass.org
    - Whitepaper: Download the white paper
  - Revised project charter
  - Letter of Agreement – ToIP and Sovrin
  - Collaboration with Kantara
- ToIP Working Groups:
  - Communications Committee: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Communications+Committee
  - Governance Stack
  - Technical Stack - Interoperability Taskforce
  - Utility Foundry
  - Ecosystem Foundry
  - Decentralized Semantics
  - Concepts and Terminology

DIF DIDComm Working Group
- Rolling Agenda: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm/blob/main/agenda.md
- 8 Mar 2021 meeting
  - Discussion of attachments and encryption
DIF Interoperability Group
- Main: https://identity.foundation/interop/
- Wiki: https://www.notion.so/Interoperability-WG-a42995c37e2a4511a10aea96cdbccc38
- Rolling agenda: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/interoperability/blob/master/agenda.md
  - 10 Mar 2021:
    - DIF – proposed Travel and Hospitality Special Interest Group
    - Discussion about an interop bounty #DIF-governance meeting
    - Newest GNAP-core spec
    - Update on GNAP and AuthZ discussions in the Confidential Storage working group
Sovrin Foundation
- Technical Governance Board (TGB)
  - 4 Mar 2021 Meeting Minutes:
    - Follow up on call for token plug-in maintainer
      - Steve’s email regarding Sovrin token
      - Marta’s survey of TGB members regarding Sovrin Token
      - Discussion of ledger
    - DizMe announcement and other Indy networks: what does it mean for TGB?
      - https://www.dizme.io/#section-why
      - Have iOS app in the app store
    - Indy release update, and implications for the Sovrin release
- Steward Council
  - Rolling Agenda:
  - 4 Mar 2021
    - Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15XrXg6zTF586wjfu8Cv9fZONIBE7KRJq5S6BG0c8gvQ/edit#slide=id.g4227fd63e5_0_225
    - Agenda
      - TGB Update - Steve McCown
      - Indy Update - Richard Esplin
        GitHub Actions pipelines are nearly done.
        The Ubuntu 20.04 update is nearly done
        Evernym is reallocating developers and is seeking volunteers for Sovrin-specific maintenance
      - Two new Slack Channels for Stewards (community and permission)
        https://join.slack.com/t/sovrinfoundation/shared_invite/zt-mzf6zeqo-5QYtRDWRPni5IdYk7ulUWg
      - Indy SDK: Absa is helping move Indy SDK to GitHub Actions
        Discussion of Indy SDK's Future: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/pull/2329
      - Steward Health Workstream:
        Updates on indy-ledger-monitor
        Steward compliance reviews
      - Technical Workstream:
        Decentralization of MainNet Governance (ITIL) - In Review
        Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade work on Node and Plenum is active and progressing.
        Token Plugin
        Plenum Node support for freezing and removing ledgers.
        SIPs for
        Removing token (https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/sovrin-sip/pull/28/files)
        Token code (https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/token-plugin/tree/master/sovtoken/sovtoken)
        Node Selection Algorithm
      - Steward community Workstream
        Reward model: overlaps with token conversation, goal is for Stewards to make a proposal
        Steward Co-op (project marketplace for stewards)
      - Steward Project Showcase - Youth Agency Marketplace (Yoma; currently in S. Africa)
        YOMA is designed to be a market for creating innovation
        Open source, privacy preserving -- focus on Inclusive Growth
        Platform build using Trinsic
        Goal is to make YOMA a clone-able as possible, to facilitate global growth
        YOMA expects to use some form of Token as a means of value transfer in the ecosystem

W3C Standard
- Verifiable Credentials Working Group
- DID Working Group

Other?

Presentation

Indy HIPE 0162: Frozen Ledgers (https://github.com/esplinr/indy-hipe/blob/master/text/0162-frozen-ledgers/README.md)
LEDGERS_FREEZE (indy-node docs): https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/blob/master/docs/source/requests.md#ledgers_freeze
Freeze Ledgers (indy plenum docs: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-plenum/blob/master/docs/source/transaction_freeze_ledgers.md

Future Topics

Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org)