2023-05-17 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

DID Peer / Unqualified DIDs
Open Wallet Foundation

Date

17 May 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) <alex.walker@indicio.tech>
Frostyfrog (Indicio) <colton@indicio.tech>
James Ebert (Indicio) <james.ebert@indicio.tech>
Stephen Curran (BC Gov/Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
Alexander Manecke (Deutsche Telekom, IDunion) <a.manecke@telekom.de>
Timo Glastra (Animo) <timo@animo.id>
Ry Jones (Linux Foundation)
Helen Garneau (Indicio) <helen@indicio.tech>
Berend Sliedrecht (Animo) <berend@animo.id>
Karim Stekelenburg (Animo) <karim@animo.id>
Tim Bloomfield (OPS) <tim.bloomfield@ontario.ca>
Rodolfo Miranda (RootsID)<rodolfo.miranda@rootsid.com>
Andre Kudra (esatus AG) <a.kudra@esatus.com>
Christopher Hempel (esatus AG / IDunion) <c.hempel@esatus.com>
Sebastian Bickerle (neosfer GmbH / lissi / IDunion) <sebastian.bickerle@neosfer.com>
Peter Janes (Abdagon AG) <peter.janes@abdagon.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

June 7-9 https://diceurope.org/
Hackathon – https://didhack.xyz/ – need an Aries Developer to monitor Discord to answer questions from participants
AnonCreds Workshop May 31, 2023 08:00 AM

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-dev14
  - 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
- AnonCreds Rust - https://github.com/hyperledger/anoncreds-rs
  - Release 0.1.0-dev16
- 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
  - 0.8.1 released – focused on the upgrade command, most 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

Discussion Topics

DID Peer Update?
- Alex added PR for Method 3: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/peer-did-method-spec/pull/49
Unqualified DID Conversion to did:peer:2
- https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/blob/main/packages/core/src/modules/dids/methods/peer/peerDidNumAlgo2.ts#L94
- RFC? - Volunteer Needed!
Open Wallet Foundation
- The Opportunity
  - A potential re-homing of Aries to OWF
- The Circumstances
  - Community needs decisions together
- The Challenges
- Notes on discussion and questions to be clarified
  - High ambition level of OWF
    - Goal is to create code that has relevance in code that meets regulatory requirements (e.g. as part of the EU Digital Identity Wallet)
    - Aries features and approaches can gain better representation in compliance and regulatory settings employing wallets (key leverage point for Aries community)
    - Outreach to European Commission already established at OWF
  - Funding
    - 300 orgs listed in doc
    - https://openwallet.foundation/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2023/02/OpenWallet-Foundation-Overview.pdf
    - 41 listed current sponsors
    - 7 million draft budget?
    - Funding state? Will fundraising match needs?
    - Difficulty of orgs being members of All The Things.
      - Time
      - Money
  - Project Support from Hyperledger
    - Hyperledger social reach is larger
    - Training workshop organized by HyperLedger
  - Code and Standards being co-located in the same org is difficult
  - Aries implementing standards designed outside of Aries
    - mDL
    - OpenID4VerifiableCredentials
    - Beyond Aries?
  - OWF explicitly does not want to create standards, OWF core is creating code to implement standards
  - Perception of the scope of Aries? What Aries does/is:
    - RfCs
    - Code matching RfCs
    - Interop Profiles
  - ToDo: More clearly communicate what Aries does, also towards OWF

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

https://youtu.be/ed58MI2Mviw

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