2019-10-09-A Aries Working Group Call (US morning)

Summary:

• Aries / Aries-Core Jira tickets
• Ken and Brent's proposal for interface boundaries
• Discussion of hardware enclaves
• Plan for Aries core repositories
• Plan for aries-core-wallet

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

Date

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

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Attendees

• Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>
• Brent Zundel (Evernym) <brentzundel@evernym.com>
• Ken Ebert (Sovrin Foundation) <ken@sovrin.org>
• Sam Smith (ProSapien) <sam@samuelsmith.org>
• Matt Raffel (Kiva) <mattr@kiva.org>
• John Callahan (Veridium) <jcallahan@veridiumid.com>
• Daniel Bluhm (Sovrin Foundation) <daniel.bluhm@sovrin.org>
• Kumaravel (Ford) <nkumara2@ford.com>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Related Calls and Announcements

• Previous Aries Working Group calls
• Identity Implementors Working Group call
  • Main place to get project updates, release status, and announcements.

Release Status

• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov) - Release 0.3.3 has been tagged and is on PyPi
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy)
  • Weekly notes: Weekly planning notes (2019-10-08)
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
  • Project is featured on Ruby-Flow
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
• Aries-StaticAgent-Python - Release 0.4.0
• Aries-SDK-Python - Wrapper from JeromK and SBCA?
• Aries-SDK-Java
• Aries-SDK-JavaScript

Work Updates

• Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Ken)
• SDK 2.0 architecture / Indy-Aries split (Sergey)
• Architecture of Aries Verifiable Credentials Proof Formats

RFC Progress

Other Business

• Moving tickets from Indy-SDK to Aries
  • Closing tickets related to the Indy SDK wrappers, LibVCX, and Wallet
  • Closing tickets in Indy Agent
• Next step on Aries Core Libraries
  • Proposal review of interface boundaries
    • Ken Ebert, Brent Zundel 
       
      • Daniel's feedback: concerns about splitting "Secure Storage" with "Key Storage".
        • "Key Storage" is a confusing term due to incorrect analogies to previous key storage solutions.
        • IIW discussions about Aries storage and hardware secure storage.
        • Previous work in Aries RFC 50.

          • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/concepts/0050-wallets#enclave-wrapping

      • RFCs submitted
        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/249
        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/250
      • Ledger Resolver → Data Registry Interface
  • Evernym thinks the next step is to move the Indy Wallet
    • Indy SDK Epic: 
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  • Kiva is also working on a wallet implementation
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-wallet
  • See discussion:
    • 2019-09-25-A Aries Working Group Call (US morning)
    • 2019-10-07 Indy Contributors Call
  • Sergey prepared a POC as a sub-directory in Indy SDK
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/pull/1927
  • Parallel efforts?
    • Stub out other Aries Core repositories: 
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      • Give 1 week for feedback, then create the repositories.
    • Work on the resolver interface:
      • Daniel has a Peer DID resolver we could quickly move to Rust and Aries Core
        •  
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        • https://github.com/dhh1128/pypeerdid

Future Topics

• Next call
  • Architecture discussions IIW (Daniel)
  • Using hardware enclaves
• Other:
  
  • Hubs vs Agents
  • Payments in Aries
  • wallet query language
  • IOT best practices (Robert Mitwicki, Adam Burdett , Lohan Spies )
  • DID Resolution W3C and Sam's concerns: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/130

Action items

• Richard: Create repos specified in Aries 3 

Call Recording