2021-08-25-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Summary

• Time Changes
• Meeting Format
• Connection Reuse
• JSON-LD support

Date: 25 Aug 2021 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)

Attendees

• Sam Curren(Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>

Announcements

• IIW (online) Oct 12-14

Related Meetings Review

• Ursa - 
• SSI in IoT WG
• Indy Contributors - Every 2nd Tuesday 8am US/Pacific (next week) - CI/CD of Indy Node and Plenum, Ubuntu 20.04 release. no updates.
• Indy DID Method Tuesdays 7am Pacific - no updates
• 2021-07-29 : Identity Implementers WG Call:  The Aug 12th meeting is cancelled.  Please join again on Aug 26th.
• DIF DIDComm WG - Monday's at Noon US/Pacific - Sam Curren (Mon) - 
•  - early community discussions
• TrustoverIP Saturn5 Interop Testing - Friday 9am EST (Keith Smith )  See "Saturn V - Vendor Scrum (TSWG)" at https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Calendar+of+ToIP+Meetings
• Cardea - Users Group meeting every Thursday 10am MDT - https://cardea.app/  -  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3933667495?pwd=ZnlPSDJBcnljL0svS1djVGswcS84QT09

Upcoming Releases and Work Updates

• Aries Agent Test Harness - Test Run Status: https://aries-interop.info
  • Connectivity between AF-Go and ACA-Py based on a did:orb DID achieved.
  • PR (almost...) ready to merge to demonstrate BBS+/JSON-LD credential exchange between AF-GO and ACA-Py.
  • PR (almost...) ready to merge that demonstrates Out-of-Band connection reuse.
• Aries Shared Components
  • Support added to ACA-Py main branch, enabled by `--wallet-type askar`. Uses `aries-askar` for wallet storage, `indy-credx` for Indy Anoncreds support, and `indy-vdr` for ledger communication.
• Aries-CloudAgent-Python
  • Release 0.7.0 published, official release.
    • Release Notes: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python/releases/tag/0.7.0
    • Documentation: https://aries-cloud-agent-python.readthedocs.io/en/0.7.0/
  • Next up: Enabling resolving DIDs to multiple Indy ledgers in parallel – e.g. starting up with an array of genesis files and trying all of them when resolving a ledger object (DID, etc.)
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
  • Working on AIP 2.0, AATH integration, and AcaPy integration.
    • AFGO-AcaPy connectivity now passing in AATH.
      • Including multiple DID method scenario (AFGO writes DIDs to orb and AcaPy writes DIDs to indy and usage of universal resolver).
    • Working on integrating AATH for Issue Credential v2 and Present Proof v2 with JSON-LD.
      • AFGO-AFGO now passing; working on AcaPy-AFGO.
  • Working on selecting Envelope v1 vs v2.
  • Working on WACI-PeX based on AFG (in TrustBloc project).
  • Future RFCs:
    • Redirect-based OOB.
    • Multiple sources for presentations.
• Aries Mobile Agent React Native - Aries Bifold Meetings
  • UI / Code structure update PR pending
  • Discussion to utilize Aries Shared Components
  • @aries-framework/redux-store documentation/consumption work
• Aries-Framework-JavaScript - Framework JS Meetings
  
  • Meetings will be held at Thursday 7:00 AM MST / 3:00 PM CET
  • Split up into multiple packages
    • "@aries-framework/core" - https://www.npmjs.com/package/@aries-framework/core
    • "@aries-framework/node" - https://www.npmjs.com/package/@aries-framework/node
    • "@aries-framework/react-native" - https://www.npmjs.com/package/@aries-framework/react-native
  • Indy wallet overhaul:
    • Config is less indy specific
    • Lot of methods moved to IndyLedgerService and IndyStorageService in preparation for shared libraries and browser wallet
  • Update to new indy-sdk-react-native (Hyperleger owned version of rn-indy-sdk)
• Aries-Cloudagent-Pico
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav Markovski )
• Aries-Toolbox
• Aries-SDK-Java
• Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
• Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin (Aries MAX) - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobileagent-xamarin
• Ursa

Agenda

• Timeslot Review
  • Proposal: 8AM mountain - the A call slot time. 
• Meeting Format
  • Project Reviews? (usually under 15 minutes as-is) 
  • 60 min?
• connection reuse (check in on status)
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/blob/main/features/0434-outofband/README.md#reuse-messages
• JSON-LD Credentials
  • What exists?
  • What is in the pipeline?
  • Subset of LD-ness?

Next Week

Future Topics

Action items

Recording