2024-01-23 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting

Summary:

Topics:

• Status Updates:
  • AnonCreds RS
  • did:peer and AFJ Interop – where we are
  • Load Generator Testing at BC Gov
  • Interop with the W3C Traceability site
  • AnonCreds in W3C Format
  • DRPC Protocol Implementation – progress
• Next Release discussion - timing, content and 
• ACA-Py Roadmap for 2024
• PRs and Issues
• Open Discussion

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/98856745538?pwd=VkJROWRxeW43d3hOdnJLemwrS0JKUT09

Call Time: 8:00 Pacific / 17:00 Central Europe

Recordings From the Call:  

Welcome, Introductions and Announcements

• Hyperledger Project Annual Reports being prepared now for Aries, AnonCreds and Indy.
• IIW coming up in April

Attendees

• Stephen Curran (BC Gov/Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
• Emiliano Suñé (BC Gov / Quartech) <emiliano.sune@quartech.com>
• Wade Barnes (BC Gov / Neoteric Technologies Inc.) <wade@neoterictech.ca>
• Akiff Manji (BC Gov / Petri Dish Development) <amanji@petridish.dev>

Documentation:

• ACA-Py documentation: https://aca-py.org

Agenda

• Status Updates:
  • AnonCreds RS in ACA-Py
  • AnonCreds in W3C Format
  • did:peer and AFJ Interop – where we are?
    • AATH – tests implemented for did:peer:1, 2, 4
    • Want to get AFJ working for AATH – upgrade to backchannel controller for DID Exchange and OOB, restart the agent with new settings for everything
  • Load Generator Testing at BC Gov using Aries Akrida
  • Interop with the W3C Traceability site
  • New item: DRPC Support – Aries RFC 804 PR
• Next Release:
  • Ready for RC0?
  • Current contents that would be released – 53 PRs
  • What to call the release – 0.11.1, 0.12.0, 1.0.0 (rc4)?
    • Side note: Where we are with AIP 2.0 support.
    • Do 0.12.0 now and if we are ready right after that, do a 1.0.0 that is essentially the same – but with some use in the wild.
      • Action: 0.12.0-rc0 to be created and released.
  • What is needed to be included in the release:
    • Too constrained DID Validation: #2714/#2610
    • DID Rotation: #2639/PR#2494
    • VC API Endpoints: PR#2710 
    • Others?
      • Update the PyDID package – issue exists
      • How the verification method is fetch for did:web (PyLD – an error) – workaround PR until it is fixed in PyLD. Patrick St-Louis 
      • How to indicate you have a public did:web registered – verificationMethod is needed in the options – default verificationMethod? Patrick St-Louis to enter issue.
• Aries Cloud Agent Python Roadmap for 2024
  • Hyperledger TOC Requirement for projects to submit an Annual Report that includes a Roadmap for 2024
  • Draft Aries Annual Report has been created and is being reviewed by the Aries Community
    • Please review, update, add to, and comment on!
  • Roadmap items applicable to ACA-Py:
    • Current work (above)
    • DID Rotate, leading to DIDComm v2 (and ToIP Trust Spanning Layer?)
    • did:webs (we think...) support – registrar and resolver
    • Improved Documentation/Tools/Webinars e.g.,
      • Scalability Report
      • ACA-Py Beyond DIDComm/AnonCreds – other protocols other VC formats
    • Release 1.0 LTS
    • Others:
      • Other VC types (e.g., mDL), expanded credential exchange protocols
      • More OpenID4VC support
• Other PRs Ready for Review and Issues to Discuss

Upcoming Meeting Topics:

• Discussion Topics:
  
  • Update on ACA-Py Container Scanning
  • Multi-architecture containers
    • Issue with BBS+ package – doesn't support ARM containers – need an update to their CI
    • Solution: A third container published that includes BBS+ package, but is single architecture
    • Others are Askar
• The DSR team has started looking into supporting the "please-ack" protocol. A draft PoA will likely be ready for review on the next call, 17 Oct 2023 

Future Topics

Action items