2019-12-04-A Aries Working Group Call (US morning)

Summary:

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

Date

Dec 4, 2019 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

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Attendees                                                                                                                                                            

• Name (Employer) <email>

• Troy Ronda (SecureKey) <troy.ronda@securekey.com>

• @John Jordan (Province of British Columbia) <john.jordan@gov.bc.ca>

• @Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing / Province of British Columbia) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>

• @Marvin Berstecher  (esatus AG) <m.berstecher@esatus.com>

• @Wolfgang Lamot (difacturo) <wolfgang.lamot@difacturo.com>

• @John Callahan (Veridium) <jcallahan@veridiumid.com>

• @Kalyan Kulkarni (AyanWorks) <kalyan@ayanworks.com>

• @Michael Bernard (Binus University) <bernardus.kurnia@binus.ac.id>

• @Carl DiClementi (Factom Inc) <carl@factom.com>

• @Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>

• @Ken Ebert (Sovrin Foundation) <ken@sovrin.org>

• @Adam Burdett (Sovrin Foundation) <adam@sovrin.org>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• Aries Workshop/Connectathon December 3-5 in Provo, Utah - Dates Confirmed, Food Sponsors welcome!

• Hyperledger edX course - Introduction to Hyperledger Sovereign Identity Blockchain Solutions: Indy, Aries & Ursa

Related Calls

• Previous Aries Working Group calls

• Identity Implementors Working Group call

  • Main place to get project updates, release status, and announcements.

Release Status and Work Updates

• Aries Protocol Test Suite

• Aries-KMS

• Verifiable Data Registry Interface (VDRI) library

• Other Core Libraries (pack / unpack)

• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov) - Latest is Release 0.3.5 on PyPi

• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go

  • 2019-12-03 Framework Go Weekly Planning

  • Investigating usage of Tink to support a native Go KMS (also supports other languages).

  • Continuing efforts on routing, duplex transport (transport return route), WebAssembly, JWE envelopes.

• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)

• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)

• Aries-StaticAgent-Python - Now up to 0.6.1; more details

• Aries-Toolbox

• Aries-SDK-Python - Wrapper from JeromK and SBCA?

• Aries-SDK-Java

• Aries-SDK-JavaScript

• Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)

  • HIPEs/RFCs

    • overview https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/concepts/0250-rich-schemas

    • context https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/features/0249-rich-schema-contexts

    • schema processing feedback https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/features/0281-rich-schemas 

  • Next HIPEs/RFCs for

    • encoding

    • mapping

    • credential definition 

  • Node implementation of

    • context (merged)

    • schema PR in progress https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/pull/1513

• Migration from LibIndy

  • LibVCX 0.5.0 with Aries protocol support released today.

• Ursa 0.3.0 release in November

  • Updated BLS signature (multi-signatures, small-BLS)

  • Compilation optimization for specific hardware

  • Rest of predicates for Anoncreds 2.0 and delegatable credentials

RFC Progress

• Rich Schema RFC headed to an APPROVED status, Troy had some comments on how the Link Secrets tie to W3C spec.

• Proposal to renumber RFC 0289

• Progress on JWE envelopes (RFC 334).

• Draft RFC on HTTP over DIDComm.

Other Business

• Connect-a-thon update

  • Aries Interop profile

  • LibVCX and Aries

  • KERI for key management: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.02143.pdf

  • DIDComm Semantics

• Progress on the Aries Protocol Test Suite, Sergey M.

  • Progress on the Protocol Test Suite: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-protocol-test-suite

  • Alternative approach presented by Faber College (a.k.a. BC) https://github.com/ianco/aries-agent-test-harness

• Next steps with LibIndy evolution to an Aries model
  
  

  • Indy Resolver becomes Indy-Aries-VDRI

  • Indy Anoncreds becomes Aries-Creds-Anoncreds

  • Indy Pack / Unpack becomes Aries-Shared-Util

  • Indy Wallet becomes Aries-Shared-KMS
    
    

    • Aries-Shared-KMS-SQLite

    • Aries-Shared-KMS-PostgreSQL

  • Don't wait for resolver interfaces to standardize as RFCs

• Question about Aries-SDKs versus Aries-Frameworks

• Trusted Digital Web 

  • Further discussion on the Semantics call December 10 see #indy-semantics at chat.hyperledger.org

  • https://hyperonomy.com/2019/12/03/trusted-digital-web-first-trusted-web-page-delivered-today-dec-3-2019/

Future Topics

• Next call

  • Aries KMS design

    • Define approved algorithms

    • Define plugin interface

    • 3rd party libraries we could leverage:

      • Google Tink as an encryption library

  • Hubs vs Agents

    • https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2019/07/23/rhythm-and-melody-how-hubs-and-agents-rock-together

• Other:
  
  

  • Status and future of 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

  • Architecture of Aries Verifiable Credentials Proof Formats (Mike Lodder)

Action items

Call Recording