2023-04-26 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

• IIW Recap
• DIDComm v2 Hackathon Report
• Next Steps on AIP 3

Date

26 Apr 2023 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

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Attendees                   

• Sam Curren (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
• Alexandra Walker (Indicio, PBC) <alex.walker@indicio.tech>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

Release Status and Work Updates

• Aries Agent Test Harness -- https://aries-interop.info
• Aries Shared Components - Indy SDK replacements
  • Indy Verifiable Date Registry - Ledger Interface https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
    • Release 0.4.0 soon/this week(?) (0.4.0.dev.12 most recent)
    • Release 0.5.0 will have breaking changes, including did:indy branch merged into main.
  • Aries Askar secure storage - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-askar
    • Release 0.2.8 soon/this week(?) (0.2.8.dev.6 most recent)
  • AnonCreds Rust - https://github.com/hyperledger/anoncreds-rs
    • Release 0.1.0 soon/this week(?) (0.1.0.dev.11 most recent)
  • Shared Rust Library/CredX (AnonCreds) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-shared-rs - being replaced by AnonCreds Rust
    • Release 0.3.2 tagged
• Frameworks:
  • Aries-CloudAgent-Python https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python, Meetings: ACA-Pug Meetings
    • 0.8.0 released
    • 0.8.1 pending – upgrade command needs immediate work – arrgghhh... Relevant to multi-use invitations – including mediators.
    • New documentation site: https://aca-py.org
  • Aries-Framework-JavaScript https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript, Meetings: Framework JS Meetings
    • Version 0.3.3 released - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/releases
    • Version 0.4.0 in progress - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/releases/tag/v0.4.0-alpha.87
  • Aries VCX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx, Meetings: Aries-VCX Meetings
    
    • Release 0.53.0 https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/releases/tag/0.53.0
  • Picos as Aries agents (https://github.com/Picolab/aries-cloudagent-pico)
    • Phil Windley has students working on a DIDComm v2 version of ACA-Pico
  • Less active repos:
    • Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go, Meetings: aries-framework-go) 
    • Aries-Framework-DotNet (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-dotnet)
• Mobile:
  • Aries Mobile Agent React Native, aka Aries Bifold https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native, Meetings: Aries Bifold User Group Meetings
    • Bifold Summit Happening now – Bifold Summit 2023
    • BCGov has realeased an Aries Bifold version, rebranded w/ BC blue/theme/etc (BC wallet)
  • Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin aka Aries MAX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobileagent-xamarin)
• aries-mediator-service – a DIDComm Mediator in a Box
• aries-endorser-server – an Indy Endorser in a Box (in development)
• Aries-Toolbox
• Ursa (https://www.hyperledger.org/use/hyperledger-ursa, https://github.com/hyperledger/ursa)

Discussion Topics

• IIW Recap
  • DIDComm v2 Interopathon
• LF Digital Trust Initiative
  • Potential Container for HL, ToIP, OWF, and DIF
  • Organizational Opportunities for Aries
  • Interested in conversations?
• DID Peer Update?
  • Alex added PR for Method 3: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/peer-did-method-spec/pull/49

Not Discussed Notes from last week...

• DID Peer 2/3 – processing approach – is this the plan:
  • Identifiers:
    • Long Identifier – as defined today, entire encoded DIDDoc in identifier
    • Short identifier is the first 22(?) characters of 64 character string sha256 of long identifier (or something else?)
  • On receipt of a did:peer:3<identifier>, process as follows:
    • Detect length of identifier — short or long (assumption: long peer:did:2 will never be less than 23(?) bytes)
    • If short - resolve DID locally to get DIDDoc - on success, exit
    • If short and resolution failed — error, exit
    • If long
      • Convert long DID to short DID - resolve DID locally to get DIDDoc - on success, exit
    • If long and short DID resolution failed
      • Resolve long DID locally to get DIDDoc — on success, exit
    • if both short and long DID resolution fails
      • If on a “create DID” step (e.g. receiving DID Exchange “request” or “response” or DIDComm 2 new protocol step)
        • Extract DIDDoc from long DID, store short DID and DIDDoc, get DIDDoc — on success, exit
    • Otherwise — error

Other Business

Future Topics

• Niels Klomp offered a deeper dive into the openid4vc related flows
• Thomas - Nessus DIDComm 0.23.2 First Release
  • Wallet abstraction for AcaPy + Nessus native
  • Camel Http Endpoint for Nessus agent
  • Support for RFC0434 Out-of-Band Invitation V1 & V2
  • Support for RFC0023 Did Exchange V1
  • Support for RFC0048 Trust Ping V1 & V2
  • Support for RFC0095 Basic Message V1 & V2
  • CLI to work with supported protocols and model

• State-of-union of Aries projects
• decorator for redirection after proofs. - existing?

Action items

Call Recording