2019-11-13-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
Summary:
What is Aries?
Aries Stable RFC
Open Discussion / Next Week Topics
Note: This call is being recorded.
Date
Nov 13, 2019 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)
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Attendees
Name (Organization) <email>
@Troy Ronda (SecureKey) <troy.ronda@securekey.com>
@Paul Knowles (Dativa) <paul.knowles@dativa.com>
@George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>
@Sam Curren (Sovrin Foundation) <sam@sovrin.org>
@John Callahan (Veridium) <jcallahan@veridiumid.com>
@Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass/BC Gov) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
@Daniel Bluhm (Sovrin Foundation) <daniel.bluhm@sovrin.org>
@Ajay Jadhav (AyanWorks) <ajay@ayanworks.com>
@Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>
@Tobias Looker (Mattr) <tobias.looker@mattr.global>
@Mike Lodder (Sovrin) <mike@sovrin.org>
@Darrell O'Donnell (CULedger) <darrell.odonnell@culedger.com>
@Ken Ebert (Sovrin Foundation) <ken@sovrin.org>
@Robert Mitwicki The Human Colossus Lab
@Alain Neyroud IBM <neyroud@us.ibm.com>
Moushmi Banerjee Nutanix <moushmi.banerjee@nutanix.com>
Welcome / Introductions
Announcements
Aries Workshop/Connectathon December 3-5 in Provo, Utah
Thank you Sponsors: StreetCred and Hyperledger! - More Food Sponsors welcome!
Please RSVP
Webinar on peer DIDs Nov 21 at 1 PM MST, ssimeetup.org
Related Meetings Review
Ursa - Progress on packages and Plenum work.
Semantics - ODCA pilots underway - The agenda, video, notes, etc. from the HL Indy Semantics WG call:
Read more: https://odca.online and https://tool.odca.online
Fully functional parser: https://github.com/THCLab/odca-ruby
DID UX Call - Slack/Mailing list - details in the shared document as well minutes and additional information, currently focus on Purpose Based Services
Indy Contributors - @Richard Esplin (Mon) - Discussed future of Indy Ledger (View Change, Aardvark BFT, bug fixes, future of Plenum)
Identity WG / Identity WG Implementer calls (Wed / Thurs)
Upcoming Releases and Work Updates
Aries Protocol Test Suite
Works, and ready for test contributions
Aries Core Libraries (agent storage, ledger interface, comms)
Planning a move for the Indy Wallet crate into hyperledger/aries-kms
SQLite as the default KMS plugin.
aries-kms-sqlite is archived
Need to migrate Postgres capability to aries-kms-postgres
Future:
Verifiable Data Registry Interface library
Static Peer DIDs in aries-vdri as the default implementation
aries-vdri-peer is archived
Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov) - current Release 0.3.5. Continued instrumentation, performance learning
OrgBook transaction rate now at 50% of VON-X version - a significant improvement. Instrumentation is huge!!
Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
Project description posted in README.
You can play with the framework by running BDD tests or with the OpenAPI (swagger) interface.
Next up: credential issuance (and continuing with W3C verifiable credentials), WebAssembly & WebSockets.
Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
Project is featured on Ruby-Flow (http://www.rubyflow.com/p/ofdqjq-ruby-sdk-for-hyperledger-aries)
Updated to 0.0.6 at RubyGems https://rubygems.org/gems/aries-sdk-ruby
Rails sample project using aries-sdk-ruby at https://github.com/johncallahan/aries-rails
Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav) Transaction Authors/Endorser support for Indy.
Aries-SDK-Python - PR from JeromeK - weigh-in from those interested in Python wrapper would be appreciated.
Aries-SDK-Java - Usually Wed Evenings #aries-framework-java
Javier => asking help to move forward. Any agenda on what is being developed on other SDKs?
Aries-SDK-JavaScript - #aries-javascript
Contributors are now meeting on every Fridays -
PR for moving Indy NodeJS wrapper repo has been merged into https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript
Ready for contributors to start picking next tasks
Need to create a new repo - "aries-framework-javascript" and add following contributors to get started.
@Jakub Koci , @Matt Raffel , @Ajay Jadhav , @Keith Smith
Meeting details are here - Framework JS Meetings
See current plan here - FAQs
Bug in Indy-SDK NodeJS wrapper seems relevant to Aries code base: IS-1422
Indy
Plans to immediately deprecate Indy wrappers for Python and DotNet (IS-1423), will do later Java, JavaScript, iOS (IS-1424)
Plans to immediately deprecate Indy Documentation / Getting Started Guide in favor of Aries (IS-1425)
Undecided about the timing for deprecating LibVCX (IS-1416)
Rich Schemas
New RFC under review for the schema object (and corresponding HIPE in Indy). https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/features/0281-rich-schemas
Ursa
0.3 release by the end of the month.
Agenda
Issue Game: Can we close this? (15 min)
What is Aries? (30 min - Sam Curren)
Aries Stable RFC (20 min - Stephen Curran)
Open Discussion / Next Week Topics
Next Week
Future Topics
DIF Interop Project - Project is proceeding, connect the communities at IIW
DKMS status
Independent agent upgrades
Signature Envelope (Kyle)
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. (and protocol documentation hosting.)
Formal protocol verification techniques