2023-07-26 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

Aries Marketing Update
Aries Endorser Service – Generalizing the Service
Aries RFC Pull Requests
Open Discussion

Date

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

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Attendees

Stephen Curran (BC Gov/Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
Wade Barnes (BC Gov / Neoteric Technologies Inc.) <wade@neoterictech.ca>
Warren Gallagher (AffintiQuest) <warren@affinitiquest.io>
jkrupicka (Matrix Group International) <jkrupicka@matrixgroup.net>
Emiliano Suñé (BC Gov / Quartech) <emiliano.sune@quartech.com>
Alex Metcalf (BC Gov) <alex.metcalf@gov.bc.ca>
Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

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-dev16
  - 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 0.2.9
- AnonCreds Rust - https://github.com/hyperledger/anoncreds-rs
  - Release 0.1.0
- Shared Rust Library/CredX (AnonCreds) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-shared-rs - being replaced by AnonCreds Rust
  - Release 0.3.3 Bugfix (bug was in the python wrapper)
  - Release 1.0.0 Embeds new AnonCreds CL Signatures library with fixes, performance improvements
Frameworks:
- Aries-CloudAgent-Python https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python, Meetings: ACA-Pug Meetings, Documentation: https://aca-py.org
  - Release 0.9.0 – with new Release 1.0.0 CredX
- 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 released! - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/releases/tag/v0.4.0 - HUGE!
- Aries VCX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx, Meetings: Aries-VCX Meetings
  - Release 0.56.0 https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/releases/tag/0.56.0
- Picos as Aries agents (https://github.com/Picolab/aries-cloudagent-pico)
  - Phil Windley has students working on a DIDComm v2 version of ACA-Pico
- Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go, Meetings: aries-framework-go)
- Time To Deprecate?
  - 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
  - 0.4.0 in Bifold – including the shared components
- Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin aka Aries MAX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobileagent-xamarin)
aries-mediator-service – a DIDComm Mediator in a Box
- Update to use SocketDock?
aries-endorser-service – an Indy Endorser in a Box (in development)
Aries-Toolbox

Discussion Topics

Aries marketing update - Helen Garneau Alex Metcalf
Aries Endorser Service -- proposal to enable fine-grained control for writing
Aries RFCs – PR reviews:
- Unqualified to Qualified DID Community Coordinated Update
  - Issues for transforming unqualified DIDs to DIDDoc 3:
    - Should we include both a Verification Key and a (derived) Key Agreement Key in the did:peer:2?
    - What should the DIDComm Messaging "type" be? "IndyAgent", "did-communications", "DIDCommMessaging"?
- Goal Codes for simulated Connection-less Presentations
- AIP 2.0 Clarifications
Open Discussion

Other Business

Future Topics

Niels Klomp offered a deeper dive into the openid4vc related flows

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

Action items

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