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Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/97759680284?pwd=VytRRlJSd3c5NXJ1V25XbUxNU0Jndz09

Recording

Announcements

• Timing adjustment - Aries VCX community call to bi-weekly at Tuesday 11:00 PM UTC | Tuesday 4:00 PM PT | Wednesday 9 AM AEST
• Release 0.64.0 - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/releases/tag/0.64.0
  • Lots of refactoring, fixes, and dependency updates. did:peer:4 support was added, as well as the move to using upstream anoncreds-rs releases. Release 0.64.0 includes the last of the major contributions supported by the Absa team--major thanks to all of the Absa contributors for all their hard work and contributions to Aries VCX!
• Absa presence in aries-vcx officially ending by the end of April
  • Overview of repo presented at the AriesWG call 2024-04-03 Aries Working Group Call
• Vision for future:
  • DF.RS
  • Go-to user friendly, efficient, feature complete implementation of DidCore - DID, DidDocuments. Become `url` crate of DIDs and DidDocuments
  • Didcomm V2
  • Mediator with web sockets
  • Mediation client
  • New credential types
  • ?Mobile/Browser secure storage options?
• Cool blogpost from our ex-mentee and current co-maintainer Naian
  
  • https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/hyperledger-mentorship-spotlight-aries-vcx-based-message-mediator

Overview of recent work done

• Reduce unnecessary dependencies - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1217
• Update to upstream anoncreds-rs 0.2 - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1213
• Loosen Presentation Request version restriction - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1212

Overview of work in progress

• Update Aries Agent Test Harness (AATH) Aries VCX backchannel to use an image and update to version 0.64.0
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1221
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-agent-test-harness/pull/833/files
• Fix Indy DID Generation from seed (secret bytes) - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1224

Agenda:

• Aries Agent Test Harness updates (~looks really good)
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1221
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-agent-test-harness/pull/833/files
• Aries VCX Modularity Discussion - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1212#issuecomment-2151083288
  • Removing credx, indyvdrtools, legacy?
    • Only concern is other people using these dependencies
      • Absa built a whole bunch of migration tools for them
      • Find out if other people are out there using these features/wallets
      • Communicating deprecating/removing of features/crates from Aries VCX
        • Indy wallet, wallet migrator, Credx, indy-sdk(in legacy directory)
  • anoncreds-rs types
    
    • Bit of a maintenance issue - in particular with new major versions of AnonCreds RS
    • Allows us to not compile AnonCreds RS if someone doesn't want to.
    • Dream solution getting AnonCreds RS making a standalone anoncreds-types crate. Thinned down crate.
      • Maybe we should approach the anoncreds-rs maintainers
      • How difficult is it to make a switch here? - depends on how good you are with your IDE
      • How urgent?
        • Could wait until Anoncreds-rs 0.3 is released
        • We temporarily ignore the special use cases and use upstream immediately
          • could reduce code base complexity
        • May want to determine how heavy the existing crate is
      • Long term make a request for a thinner crate - anoncreds-rs - George to voice to GH issues.
• Any Ad hoc discussion topics (feel free to add items)
  • VCX Record storage / state machines - James question