2019-08-28-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

• Routing/Pickup Protocols
• Inline Keys
• RFC Review

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

Date

28 Aug 2019 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 5AM Sydney)

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>
• Daniel Bluhm (Sovrin Foundation) <daniel@sovrin.org>
• Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass/BC Gov) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
• Troy Ronda (SecureKey) <troy.ronda@securekey.com>
• Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>
• George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>
• Sam Smith (ProSapien) <sam@samuelsmith.org>
• Drummond Reed (Evernym & Sovrin Foundation) <drummond.reed@evernym.com>
• Albert Solana Berengué (Validated Id) <albert.solana@validatedid.com>
• Adam Burdett (Sovrin Foundation)<adam@sovrin.org>
• Moushmi Banerjee (Nutanix) <moushmi.banerjee@nutanix.com>
• Keith Smith (IBM) <bksmith@us.ibm.com>
• Ken Ebert (Sovrin Foundation) <ken@sovrin.org>
• Alexis Falquier (Spaceman ID) <alexis@spaceman.id>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• Aries Workshop/Connectathon December 3-5 in Provo, Utah (details to follow)
• Aries Quarterly Report Draft (contributions/comments welcome)
• Other Announcements

Related Meetings Review

• Morning Aries Call - Threading Model Discussion
• Ursa -
• Indy Contributors - Next Monday off.
• Implementers Call - 

Upcoming Releases and Work Updates

• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov) - Release 0.3.1 has been tagged and is on PyPi
  • Working on next release, particularly on revocation support.
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy)
  • First milestone under development: Framework Go v0.1.0
  • Best way to get involved: daily stand-up meetings
  • Some work on the second milestone is being done in parallel - specifically initial verifiable credential efforts (first commit)
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
  • Moved to https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-sdk-ruby
  • Released as a Gem (0.0.2)
  • Will use synchronous (blocking) threads due to GIL with reliance on ActiveJob in Rails (adaptors for Sidekiq, Resque, Sucker Punch, etc.) to support threading (but untested)
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
  • Moved from StreetCred to Aries: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-dotnet
• Aries-SDK-Python - Wrapper from JeromK and SBCA?
• Aries-SDK-Java
  • People are expressing interest in Rocket Chat, but no one has started contributing code yet. Could start by moving the Indy SDK wrapper to Aries.
• Aries-SDK-JavaScript
  • Need a reviewer for the pull request moving code from Indy-SDK to Aries.
• Indy SDK
  • August
• Ursa
  • Working on release of 0.2.0
    • ZKP  / ZKLang improvements
    • Debian packages
    • Refactor internal plumbing for anoncreds 2.0, shouldn't impact external interfaces
    • Refactor multi-signature BLS in addition to aggregated signature
  • Sovrin Foundation is looking to build a Indy specific Ursa,  with ZKPs. Other Aries clients would build a different Ursa.

Agenda

• Routing & Pickup Protocols (Sam Curren)
• Inline Keys and DID Key references
  • Related issues: RFC 0021 - Sender and recipient identifiers used in envelope as DID key references, RFC 0056 & RFC 0023 Usage of inline public keys
• RFC Review
  • Acceptance of Credential Exchange - 0036/0037
• Open Discussion

Next Week

Future Topics

• DIF Interop Project - Who?
• RFCs Moving forward - Make your case
• DKMS status
• Signature Envelope (Kyle)
  • Updating to JWE compliant data model

Action items

Call Recording