2020-04-22-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Summary:

Plans

• Issue Game: Can we close this?
• CCI Update
• IIW Topics
• OOB/DID Exchange Topics

Note: This call is being recorded.

Date

22 Apr 2020 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>
• George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• IIW April 28-30 Will happen, in digital form.
  • Schedule 
  • No Aries WG Call next week

Related Meetings Review

• Ursa - 
• Semantics - Next meeting: 04/28 (Tuesday)
• DID UX Call - Active?
• SSI in IoT WG
• Indy Contributors - No call this week
• Identity WG / Identity WG Implementer calls (Wed / Thurs) - Riley Hughes on status of Sovrin Mainnet
• DIF DIDComm WG - Monday's at Noon US/Pacific - Sam Curren (Mon) - Continued discussion of zero round trip (0rtt) vs. Out of Band/DID Exchange connections.

Upcoming Releases and Work Updates

• Aries Protocol Test Suite - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-protocol-test-suite
  
• Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-agent-test-harness
  • A harness for testing two or more agent implementations using RFC-driven BDD test scripts
  • POC evolving into a test harness
  • Help Wanted: Creating a backchannel integration for aries-framework-dotnet
• Aries Shared Components:
  • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead )  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
    • Remaining work: Wrap up for a 1.0 release
    • On Hold: Integrating into LibIndy in a separate branch, goal is to release in April/May
  • indy-credx (Andrew Whitehead ) https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx
  •  indy-shared-rs (Andrew Whitehead) https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-shared-rs
    • Shared code for indy-vdr and indy-credx
    • Currently utils for: ed25519, hash, wql
  • aries-credx (Mike Lodder ) https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
    • Currently just claim encoding routines
    • Future TBD
  • Aries-KMS/Storage (Mike Lodder Andrew Whitehead Camilo Parra)
    • Mike's presentation in Aries WG A
    • Mike and Cam's aries-core-rs → aries-kms-mayaguez
      https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-kms-rs
    • aries-kms-vostok: evolution of the Indy wallet crate as a starting point
    • Next steps likely from Mike Lodderand Andrew Whitehead - others interested and have time?
• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (BC Gov)
  • 0.5.0 Real Soon Now
  • Revocation based on anoncreds 1.0 has been merged into master and will be in the next release.
    • Successful tests with Streetcred and esatus wallets 
  • Signing of Attachments
  • Major/Minor protocol version handling
  • Tracing based on RFC 0034 and trace output visualization. Goal is "jurisdiction-scale" issuance.
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
  • Issue credential protocol with BDD tests.
  • Continuing work on out-of-band and present proof protocols.
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
  • Trying to resolve dependabot vulnerabilities in ruby gems used by the aries-sdk-ruby and example Rails projects
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
• Aries-StaticAgent-Python
• Aries-Toolbox
• Aries-SDK-Java
  • Initial PR
• Aries-Framework-JavaScript / Aries-SDK-JavaScript
  • Started regular meetings: Framework JS Meetings
• Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
• Ursa

Agenda

• Intro and project updates (10 min - )
• Covid Credential Initiative Update (Riley Hughes - 10 min)
• Expected IIW Topics (Sam Curren - 5 min)
  • Trust Over IP
  • Covid Credentials
  • Contact Tracing
  • DID Spec
  • DIDComm WG Update
• OOB / DIDExchange (Sam/Stephen/George)
  • PR 454 - DIDExchange OOB Links and updates
  • Issue 468 - processing of oob-request attachments 
  • Issue 451 -  should request messages with no attachments be rejected?
• Issue Game: Can we close this? (15 min - )
• Open Discussion / Next Week Topics / Wrap Up (5 min - )

Next Week

• Requests?

Future Topics

• DIF Interop Project - Project is proceeding, connect the communities at IIW
• DKMS status
• Credential Fraud:  Example how in ACA-Py to verify same link secret across multiple credentials in presentation
• Schema interop - how to reused schema across different networks Robert Mitwicki(RFC in progress)
• Using WebSocket as a way to communicate back to the mobile/desktop wallet (Agent (services or user) as a proxy for communication between service and digital wallet) Robert Mitwicki 
• Formal protocol verification techniques
  • https://github.com/SvenHammann90/SSI/blob/master/RWOT_9/Topic_Paper_RWOT.md (using Tamarin)
  • https://github.com/johncallahan/needham_shroeder_spin (non-Aries example using SPIN/Promela)
• What's left for DID Exchange protocol?
  • Some discussion in: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/366

Action items

Call Recording