2019-07-03-A Aries Working Group Call (US morning)

Summary:

• Introductions
• Updates on recent releases
• The future of LibVCX

Note: This call is Recorded. Recordings posted at the bottom of the page.

Date

03 Jul 2019 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 17H Moscow)

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Attendees

• Name (organization) <email>
• Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>
• Ajay Jadhav (AyanWorks) <ajay@ayanworks.com>
• Jakub Koci (Absa) <jakub.koci@gmail.com>
• Douglas (Evernym)
• Patrik Stas (Absa)
• Steve McCown (Anonyome) <smccown@anonyome.com>
• Daniel Bluhm (Sovrin Foundation) <daniel.bluhm@sovrin.org>
• Sam

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• BC Gov is interested in collaborating with groups working on Mobile Agents that could be ready for a live implementation at the end of the summer. Contact Stephen Curran.
• BC Gov has posted this "Code With Us" (bounty) opportunity for a developer/team to build an Aries-based Identity Provider (IdP) for an IAM solution (Red Hat's Keycloak). The opportunity closes at 4PM Pacific on July 3, 2019 so if you are interested, please get your response in ASAP.
• Community project: Aries RFCs - process to move HIPES; RFCs that have been moved concepts / features / pull requests.
• Aries-sdk-* Repos Created: https://github.com/hyperledger?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=aries-sdk&type=&language=
• Repo aries-cloudagent-python (aca-py) was transferred from BCGov to Hyperledger yesterday
• aries-staticagent-python on PyPI (demoed during call a few weeks back).
• #aries-sdk on chat.hyperledger.org

Summary of Prior Calls and Related Meetings

• Aries WG
  • Recordings from the other WG call.
• Indy
  • Early July release: flexible attribute tagging
  • Late July release: libVCX without agency, tab completion in the CLI, proof of possession
• Ursa
  • Anoncreds 2.0 https://github.com/hyperledger/ursa-docs/tree/master/specs/anoncreds2

Release Status

• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)
  • Migration this week from Indy Catalyst repositories.
• Aries-Agent-Go (John C)
• Indy SDK
  
  • Early July: Indy SDK 1.10.0
    • Flexible Credential Attribute Tagging (BC.gov)
    • Release is likely this week.
  • Late July:
    • GitLab migration alongside Jenkins (Foundation)
    • LibVCX without agency (Evernym)
    • Proof of possession
    • CLI tab completion

Work Updates

• Documentation improvements: Michael B and Stephen C
  • First draft in aries-cloudagent-python from 0 to coding in Aries
  • Need to review and prune out-of-date documentation (Alice / Faber treatment of pairwise DIDs is a key pain point)
• SDK 2.0 architecture / Indy-Aries split (Sergey)
  • http://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/IS-1285 

RFC Progress

Other Business

Next Week

Future Topics

Action items

• Fix zoom account link (Richard)

Call Recording