2019-09-18-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Summary:

• Part 2: Namespacing options for DIDComm Protocols and Message Types
• BSP RFC Presentation/Overview - Sept. 18, 2019
• Delegatable Credentials

Note: This call's recording is here.

Date

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

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>
• Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass/BC Gov) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
• John Callahan  <jcallahan@veridiumid.com>
• chris_raczkowski (ID Lynx) <chris.raczkowski@myidlynx.com>
• Troy Ronda (SecureKey) <troy.ronda@securekey.com>
•  George Aristy(SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>
• Michael Boyd (Streetcred ID) <michael@streetcred.id>
• Sam Smith (ProSapien) <sam@samuelsmith.org>
• Robert Mitwicki The Human Colossus Lab
• Tomislav Markovski (Streetcred ID) <tomislav@streetcred.id>
• Daniel Bluhm (Sovrin Foundation) <daniel@sovrin.org>
• Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
• e6#zoZqO9qlzEO#OUJI (Convergence.Tech) <adam@convergence.tech>
• Asem Othman (Veridium)<aothman@veridiumid.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• Aries Workshop/Connectathon December 3-5 in Provo, Utah (details to follow)
• IIW - Oct 1 - 3
• Hyperledger Maintainer Summit in Minneapolis (October 8-10)
• Hyperledger Bootcamp Russia (October 13-14)
• `aries-cloudagent-python` and `aries-framework-dotnet` propose to switch from the `connections` protocol to the `did-exchange` protocol the week after IIW (Oct. 6-11). It will take most of the week to get all implementations and documentation updated and deployed.
• Request from Troy Ronda that those interested in using JWE for pack()/unpack() (aka Encryption Envelope) push on getting that issue resolved. Issue 133, RFC 0019.
• MyData Global 25-27 September (NGI Forum 25 Sep)
• Hyperledger Meetup Belgrade October 2
• Kiva is working on an Aries Wallet implementation. See notes in the #aries channel or ping Camilo Parra
• DID Document Server based on the DNS framework - worked on by Michael Herman
• Other Announcements

Related Meetings Review

• Morning Aries Call - no meeting this week, next meeting: next Wednesday - continued focus on how to move current indy-sdk functionality to aries-sdk.
• Ursa - 
• Semantics - discussions about DNS over HTTPS. Novaritis - overlay data capture (ODCA) project; nearing completion and looking at standardization; tooling soon.
• Indy Contributors - Richard Esplin - Monday - Support for fully qualified DIDs in libindy; Dealing with old PRs. Updated the meeting schedule (see the notes)
• Identity Implementer Call - Next week at 8AM Pacific;  Last Week: discussion about idea at Hyperledger of eliminating non-Project Working Groups

Upcoming Releases and Work Updates

• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)
  • Focus on performance test case - loading OrgBook BC with ACA-Py agents on both sides. We're learning interesting things from the tuning effort.
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy)
  • First milestone (under development): Framework Go v0.1.0
  • Weekly planning notes (2019-09-17)
  • Discussion channel: #aries-go
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
  • No update
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
  • Migrated to Hyperledger: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-dotnet
• Aries-StaticAgent-Python -
• Aries-SDK-Python - 
• Aries-SDK-Java
  • Aries-SDK subchannel / discussion aries-sdk-java
• Aries-SDK-JavaScript -
• Indy
  • Indy Node
    • September: 1.10.0 (could be a bugfix release in early October)
      • PBFT view change (behind schedule, might be end of October)
      • Indy Node and Indy Plenum support for Ubuntu 18.04
  • Indy SDK
    • September: 1.12.0
      • Fully qualified DIDs (ready in Master, Evernym will be uploading a demo video)
        • Dependent on DIDDoc support? (Daniel's document and David Huseby's work)
      • Platform Updates: MacOS, CentOS
    • Future
      • GitLab migration alongside Jenkins (Foundation)?
      • Aries / Indy split
• 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

Agenda

• Part 2: Changing the namespacing identifier for DIDComm Protocols from did:sov:BzCbsNYhMrjHiqZDTUASHg to something else. aries-rfc#129. Troy Ronda
  • Options - did:aries, https, did:github, Comparison
    • Vote 1: Use HTTPS for this? Yes
    • Vote 2: Use DID (method TBD) for this?
• BSP RFC Presentation/Overview - John Callahan
• Delegatable Credentials - Daniel Hardman
• Future Topics - Suggestions
• Open Discussion

Next Week

Future Topics

• DIF Interop Project - Project is proceeding, connect the communities at IIW
• DKMS status
• Signature Envelope (Kyle)
  • Updating to JWE compliant data model
• Credential Fraud:  Example how in ACA-Py to verify same link secret across multiple credentials in presentation
• Using WebSocket as a way to communicate back to the mobile/desktop wallet (Agent (services or user) as a proxy for communication between service and digital wallet) Robert Mitwicki
• Update message type and protocol identifier to https. 

Action items

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