2024-5-15 Aries-vcx community call

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Reminders

• Community updates

  • DIF DIDComm Users Group Meets 2,3, and 4th Mondays: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-usergroup/blob/main/schedule.m

Recording

Agenda:

• Start meeting discussion
  
  • Agenda overview and ad-hoc additions ( you can add your discussion your point )
• Announcements
  
  • Adjustment of the Aries VCX call to bi-weekly at Thursday 3:00 AM UTC, Wednesday 8:00 PM PDT, Thursday 12:00 PM KST.
  • Absa presence in aries-vcx officially ending by the end of April
    • Overview of repo presented at the AriesWG call 2024-04-03 Aries Working Group Call
  • Vision for future:
    • DF.RS
    • Go-to user friendly, efficient, feature complete implementation of DidCore - DID, DidDocuments. Become `url` crate of DIDs and DidDocuments
    • Didcomm V2
    • Mediator with web sockets
    • Mediation client
    • New credential types
    • ?Mobile/Browser secure storage options?
  • Cool blogpost from our ex-mentee and current co-maintainer Naian
    
    • https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/hyperledger-mentorship-spotlight-aries-vcx-based-message-mediator
• Overview of recent work done
  
  • did:peer:4  integration and improvements https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1167
  • separated aries-vcx-wallet from aries-vcx-core https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1157
  • changed approach for constructing and modifying Did Documents https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1164
  • containerised and packaged mediator [docker, docker-compose] (#1139)
• Overview of work in progress
  • Extraction of aries-ledger crate from aries-vcx-core https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1172
  • New contributor! Using DID type in Messages crate: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1171
  • Mediator client draft https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1169
  • Improve representation + de/serialization of key within Did Document https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1170
• Architecture overview
  
  • Updated DidcommFramework.RS sketch
  • James to update Readme
• Status of usage of Indy SDK in Aries VCX
  • Don't truly know who our consumers are - beyond active contributors. Not being used by George
  • Asking Patrik would be wise
• DID Rotate Implementation
  • Messaging crate - protocol messages - add new types
  • Send message function attached to connection handler
    • Some API to the connection handler to process this request
  • Might need facelift of verkey → DID