2019-09-11-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
DID Specification reaches the end of the CCG phase. What's the status? Is a WG next? - @Drummond Reed @Markus Sabadello @Brent Zundel
Namespacing options for DIDComm Protocols and Message Types - @Troy Ronda
How to best talk about Aries interoperability, especially at public forums like IIW?
DID-Exchange vs. Connections - aries-rfcs#214 - undo the change?
Note: This call WAS NOT Recorded.
Date
Sep 11, 2019 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 5AM Sydney)
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Attendees
Name (Organization) <email>
@John Callahan (Veridium) <jcallahan@veridiumid.com>
@George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>
@Sam Smith (ProSapien) <sam@samuelsmith.org>
@Troy Ronda (SecureKey) <troy.ronda@securekey.com>
Moushmi Banerjee (Nutanix) <moushmi.banerjee@nutanix.com>
Karl Kneis (IdRamp) - kkneis@idramp.com
Eric Vinton (IdRamp) - evinton@idramp.com
@Tomislav Markovski (Streetcred ID) <tomislav@streetcred.id>
@Drummond Reed (Evernym & Sovrin Foundation) <drummond.reed@evernym.com>
@Ken Ebert (Sovrin Foundation) <ken@sovrin.org>
@Nader Helmy (Mattr) <nader.helmy@mattr.global>
@Markus Sabadello (Danube Tech) <markus@danubetech.com>
@Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
Welcome / Introductions
Announcements
Aries Workshop/Connectathon December 3-5 in Provo, Utah (details to follow)
SSI Incubator kickoff (San Francisco, Sep 17) : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-state-of-decentralized-identity-tickets-66369592237
IIW - Oct 1 - 3
Hyperledger Maintainer Summit in Minneapolis (October 8-10)
GBA’s Fall 2019 Symposium: The Future of Money, Governance, & the Law : @John Callahan will be speaking about Hyperledger Aries, Sovrin, DIF in the IDM session (Sunday 15 Sept)
Other Announcements
Related Meetings Review
Morning Aries Call - Discussion of multiple Proof format handling in Aries; Concrete proposals for moving parts of indy-sdk to aries-sdk - suggestion is wallet code
Ursa - off-week - lead up to release happening - release pipeline so that indy can use it.
Indy Contributors -
Identity Implementer Call - Tomorrow 8AM Pacific
Upcoming Releases and Work Updates
Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov) - Release 0.3.2 has been tagged and is on PyPi
Support for RFC 0036 and RFC 0037 Credential Exchange protocols, 0.1 version of those protocols deprecated
Working on next release, particularly on revocation support.
Aries-Framework-Go (Troy)
First milestone: Framework Go v0.1.0
Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
Released as a Gem (0.0.3) due to Rails 6 issues
Developed docker image with Rails 6 (Ruby 2.5.1) with Indy-SDK to test Aries-SDK-Ruby via Dokku deployment
Needed for exploring concurrency and compatibility issues with Sidekiq, Resque, SuckerPunch, etc.
Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
Moved from StreetCred to Aries: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-dotnet
Aries-StaticAgent-Python - Release 0.4.0
Move from Pysodium → PyNacl
Improved module interface and routing.
Aries-SDK-Python - Wrapper from JeromK and SBCA?
Aries-SDK-Java
Aries-SDK subchannel / discussion aries-sdk-java
Aries-SDK-JavaScript
People are collaborating in the repo.
Indy
Ursa
Working on release of 0.2.0 (September / October)
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
The DID Spec (and DID Resolution Spec) at the end of the CCG. What is it? What's in? What's been left for the WG (if any)? What's next?
@Drummond Reed @Markus Sabadello @Brent Zundel
Summary of W3C Credentials Community Group Community Final DID Spec from Drummond
Changing the namespacing identifier for DIDComm Protocols from did:sov:BzCbsNYhMrjHiqZDTUASHg to something else. aries-rfc#129. Options - did:aries, https, did:github
@Troy Ronda
How to best talk about Aries interoperability, especially at public forums like IIW?
@Drummond Reed
DID-Exchange vs. Connections - aries-rfcs#214 - undo the change?
@Stephen Curran
Open Discussion
Next Week
Future Topics
DIF Interop Project - Who?
BSP RFC Presentation/Overview - Sept. 18, 2019 - @John Callahan
RFCs Moving forward - Make your case
DKMS status
Signature Envelope (Kyle)
Action items
Call Recording - unfortunately there was no one on the call with the power to record the session and so there is no recording to share. Hopefully we will have a solution to that issue for next week and all future sessions.