2020-07-22-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Summary

• Governance Application

Note: This call was recorded: 

Date

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

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Attendees

• Sam Curren (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
• George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>
• John Callahan (Veridium) <jcallahan@veridiumid.com>
• Timo Glastra (ANIMO) <timo@animo.id>
• Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• DIF Interop WG Charter (draft): 
• Sovrin TGB Volunteers needed.
• Indyopathon Conference?
  • Efforts to organize led by Stephen Curran
  • Topic: Creds from two or more indy networks.
  • Day or two long workshop.
  • Help welcome.

• Vince Albanese - future speaker: DirectTrust hack-a-thon Nov 2020 (DIDComm on XMPP)

Related Meetings Review

• Ursa - 
• Semantics - Next meeting: Never - transitioning to be in the ToIP Foundation - see RocketChat channel for details and how to join the successor group
• DID UX Call - Active?
• SSI in IoT WG
• Indy Contributors - Every 2nd Tuesday 8am US/Pacific - DIDDoc support into Indy with minimal changes to ledger code.
• Identity WG / Identity WG Implementer calls (Wed / Thurs) - July 30, at 9 am US/Mountain (Wiki page:  2020-07-16 Identity WG Implementers Call)
• DIF DIDComm WG - Monday's at Noon US/Pacific - Sam Curren (Mon) - DID Doc services, etc.

Upcoming Releases and Work Updates

• Aries Protocol Test Suite
  • Instructions, docker added - Try It!
  • Issue, credential, and proof tests are merged.
  • esatus backchannel
• Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-agent-test-harness
  • Test compatibility between any two agents
  • Better alignment with RFCs - e.g. States; externalizing data elements - e.,g, credentials, proof requests
  • Work happening on an aries-framework-dotnet backchannel – going really well, by Timo Glastraand team
• Aries Shared:
  
  • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead)  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
    • Help Found! Update `did:sov` method of the DIF universal resolver to use indy-vdr instead of indy-sdk
  • indy-credx - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-credx
    • Experimental ACA-Py branch created that can do credential exchange with indy-credx
  • indy-shared-rs - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-shared-rs
    • Shared features across indy-vdr and indy-credx
    • pack/unpack on Ursa (not libsodium)
  • aries-credx-framework-rust - https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
  • Aries Secure Storage initiatives:
    • Soon to be pubic - from Andrew Whitehead
• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)
  • Release 0.5.3 will come soon
    • Proof validation handling needs a fix.
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
  • Implementing Android/iOS capability
    • GitHub Issue 
    • Controller implementation status dashboard
  • Investigating BBS+ JSON-LD signatures
  • Investigating DIF attachments in issue credential and present proof protocols
    • Presentation Exchange
    • Credential Manifest
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
  • Still working on JSON-LD 1.1 Signatures updates
  • Exploring BBS+ Signature support via rust bridge (same as used in Mattr's https://github.com/mattrglobal/jsonld-signatures-bbs)
  • Looking at Andrew Kane's lockbox gem for KMS with rails ActiveRecord (https://github.com/ankane/lockbox)
  • Beginning to open source GBAId RoR prototype: https://github.com/veridium/ (byoi, gbaid, gabidp, ggbarp)
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
  • BBS+ support added - a wrapper.  Tech spike work. https://github.com/streetcred-id/bbs-signatures-dotnet
• Aries-StaticAgent-Python
• Aries-Toolbox
  • PR for Connections Update
  • Converted to a web application by Robert Mitwicki - repo https://github.com/thclab/aries 
  • Upcoming cleanup items
• Aries-SDK-Java
• Aries-Framework-JavaScript - Framework JS Meetings
  • Current focus is on mediator use case (NodeJS)
  • Plan for 1.0 defined; refactoring to be done
• Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
  • Some work has been done to support the W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model specification
  • Modifications to use BBS+ LD sigs as a first step - early exploration.
• Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin (Aries MAX) - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobileagent-xamarin
  • Ideas:
    • Automatic offer acceptance/managing credentials
    • Machine readable governance
• Ursa
  • Revocation 2.0 in process

Agenda

• RFC 348 - Transition message types to https.
  • IBM Status PR?
• Applications of Governance
  • Scenario Spreadsheet
  • Daniel Edit of Email Ownership Framework
• Closing Game
  • Message Tracing - PR 464
  • Extract Reuse to OOB - PR 502
  • Present Proof v2 - PR 486
  • Presentation Exchange in Present Proof v2 - PR 510
  • Credential Manifest in Issue Credential v2 - PR 511

• Example Governance Framework (Sam)
  • Email Verification
• Engage in Governance Frameworks (Sam)
  • Examples

Next Week

• Requests?
• ActionMenu RFC
• Presentation Exchange Format overview from DIF CC WG rep.

Future Topics

• ActionMenu
• Migrating to new JWE envelope format: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/478
• DKMS status
• Credential Fraud:  Example how in ACA-Py to verify same link secret across multiple credentials in presentation
• Schema interop - how to reuse a 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 

Action items