2023-09-20 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

• Unqualified DIDs
• .Net Framework
• Repo Maintainers
• Credential Protocols

Date

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

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Attendees                 

• Sam Curren  (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
• Warren Gallagher (AffinitiQuest) <warren@affinitiquest.io>
• Alex Metcalf (BC Gov) <alex.metcalf@gov.bc.ca>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• DIF DIDComm Users Group Meets 2,3, and 4th Mondays: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-usergroup/blob/main/schedule.md
• Oct 10-12 IIW
• HL Member Summit Oct 23 in SF and Tokyo
• New Meeting Link - Check the HL Calendar for updates.
• Bifold regular meetings have resumed after summer break

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
    • Patch Release 0.10.2 is about to be released. A couple of regression fixes that might impact some deployments.
      • 0.10.2-rc0 is available and has been verified.
    • SD-JWT support in PR
  • Aries-Framework-JavaScript https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript, Meetings: Framework JS Meetings
    
    • Version 0.4.0 released! - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/releases/tag/v0.4.0 - HUGE!
    • 0.4.1 released
  • 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
    • Ongoing refactoring
    • finished migration to IndyVDR
    • Indy CredX up soon
  • 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)

Discussion Topics

• Aries marketing update - Helen Garneau Alex Metcalf  
  • Longer description added to Aries landing page on Hyperledger website: https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/aries
  • New Wiki page going live shortly: New Hyperledger Aries Draft
  • We are exploring resource for short Aries introductory animated video
  • Join our marketing working group meeting, last Tuesday of every month (so next Tuesday!): Aries Marketing Working Group
• .Net Framework OWF Transition
  • Org migrations should be done with a transfer of the repo
    • maintains links & commit history
• Repos missing maintainers:
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-acapy-tools
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-loadgenerator
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-kotlin
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-xamarin
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-test-harness
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-toolbox
• Unqualified DIDs
  • DID Rotation
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/794
  • did:peer:4
    • https://github.com/decentralized-identity/peer-did-method-spec/pull/61 (pr to method)
    • https://github.com/decentralized-identity/peer-did-method-spec/issues/58 (original post)
  • DID Exchange with no DID Document / Signature - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/717
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/795
  • Community Coordinated Update
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/793
  • Aries Agent Test Harness update for testing support
• Open Tasks
  • LTS Policy
    • Fabric starting point: (https://hyperledger.github.io/fabric-rfcs/text/0005-lts-release-strategy.html)
• Open Discussion
  • Patrik: Issue Protocol V2
    • multiple credential formats
    • supporting negotiation of credential types?

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?
• in the Aug 9 call there was talk about EUDI compatibility. Maybe tracking the progress every now and then in these calls? Has there been any discussion about adding SD-JWT and OID4VC stuff to Aries Interop test suite?

Action items

Call Recording: