2019-11-27-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
Summary:
Topics:
DIDComm DIF WG
Aries Toolbox & ACApy Toolbox Plugin
Test Suite Pluggable Backchannels
Zmix API in Anoncreds 2.0
Note: This call is being recorded.
Date
Nov 27, 2019 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)
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Attendees
Name (Organization) <email>
@Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass/BC Gov) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
@John Callahan (Veridium) <jcallahan@veridiumid.com>
@Daniel Bluhm (Sovrin Foundation) <daniel.bluhm@sovrin.org>
@George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>
@Troy Ronda (SecureKey) <troy.ronda@securekey.com>
@Paul Knowles (Dativa) <paul.knowles@dativa.com>
@Robert Mitwicki The Human Colossus Lab <robert@thclab.online>
@Daniel Hardman (Evernym)
@Tobias Looker (Mattr) <tobias.looker@mattr.global>
@Drummond Reed (Evernym & Sovrin Foundation) <drummond.reed@evernym.com>
Welcome / Introductions
Announcements
Aries Workshop/Connectathon December 3-5 in Provo, Utah
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Please RSVP
Webinar on peer DIDs Recording Posted
New Indy/Aries/Ursa edX course, now online - enroll now!
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-KMS
Moving Indy Wallet crate into aries-ams / aries-kms (might change the repo name)
cam's rust aries-kms (just old code in repo right now, once I add more to my RFC I will focus my attention to adding code here)
Working on aries-kms RFC
Verifiable Data Registry Interface library
Ken's POC
Other Core Libraries (pack / unpack)
Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov) - Latest is Release 0.3.5 on PyPi - no code releases. Release 0.4.0 is likely next, which will have some breaking changes.
Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
Working on mediator/routing, WebSocket transport, WASM, browser primitives.
RFC efforts WIP from aries-framework-go contributors:
JWE compliant envelope
DIDAuthZ
DIDComm tunnels (particularly HTTP over DIDComm)
Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
No update this week
Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
Aries-StaticAgent-Python - 0.7.0
Aries-Toolbox
Moving repos to HyperLedger's Github Org.
ACApy plugin for supported admin protocols.
Aries-SDK-Python - Wrapper from JeromK and SBCA?
Aries-Framework-Java #aries-framework-java on RocketChat
Aries-SDK-JavaScript
PR for moving Indy NodeJS wrapper repo has been merged into https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript
Repo is ready for contributors to start picking next tasks
Regular weekly zoom calls to be scheduled from this Friday. Will share the details on Rocket Chat.
DIF people interested in implementing a Java Script library that might share some of the functionality of the Aries SDK. We need to keep that in mind.
Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
HIPEs/RFCs
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
Closing PRs related to Indy wrappers with pointers to Aries language libraries
LibVCX support for some Aries protocols
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
Agenda
Issue Game: Can we close this? (15 min - Stephen Curran) - presentation, issues (as time permits): #262, #240, #201, #318
DIDComm DIF Working Group ( 10 min - Sam Curren)
Aries Toolbox & ACApy Toolbox Plugin (10 min - Sam & Daniel Bluhm)
Test Suite Pluggable Backchannels (10 min - Daniel Bluhm)
Zmix API in Anoncreds 2.0 (20 min - Lovesh)
The code for the PoC is here.
Deferred: Use of please_ack in the issue_credentials protocol (15 min - Stephen Curran) - presentation
Open Discussion / Next Week Topics
Next Week
Both calls will happen from the Connectathon
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