2020-01-15-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
- Richard Esplin
- endrefalquier
- Troy Ronda
Owned by Richard Esplin
Summary:
- Work updates
- Summary of proposed changes to DIDComm
- Progress on VDRI
Note: This call is Recorded. Recordings posted at the bottom of the page.
Date
(7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)
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Attendees
- Name (Employer) <email>
- Daniel Bluhm (Sovrin Foundation) <daniel.bluhm@sovrin.org>
- Ken Ebert (Sovrin Foundation) <ken@sovrin.org>
- Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>
- Sam Curren (Sovrin Foundation) <sam@sovrin.org>
- Filip Burlacu (SecureKey) <filip.burlacu@securekey.com>
- Stephen Curran (BC Gov/Cloud Compass> <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
- Troy Ronda (SecureKey) <troy.ronda@securekey.com>
- George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>
- Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
- endrefalquier (Spaceman ID) <alexis@spaceman.id>
Welcome / Introductions
Announcements
- Hyperledger edX course - Introduction to Hyperledger Sovereign Identity Blockchain Solutions: Indy, Aries & Ursa
- Launch of ACA-Py User Group (ACA-Pug) and #aries-cloudagent-python
- Hyperledger Developer Relationship Management meeting is today at 9AM Pacific
Related Calls
- Previous Aries Working Group calls
- DIF DIDComm WG Call: Rolling Agenda.
- Identity Implementors Working Group call
- Main place to get project updates, release status, and announcements.
Release Status and Work Updates
- Aries Protocol Test Suite
- Feature Discovery protocol tests now in test suite thanks to the efforts of Keith Smith
- Moving on to Issue Credential; first targeting Indy ledger specific tests with the hope of informing design of ledger agnostic tests.
- Aries Shared:
- Aries KMS
- Verifiable Data Registry Interface (VDRI) library
- Other Core Libraries (pack / unpack)
- Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov) - Latest is Release 0.4.0 on PyPi - some internal breaking changes regarding plugins
- Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
- 2020-01-14 Framework Go Weekly Planning
- RFC implementation status and Wishlist (Dec/2019)
- Continuing efforts on routing & relays, crypto/kms, WebAssembly, verifiable credentials, generic message handlers (and external registration), JWE envelopes.
- WASM is working for DID Exchange from a browser (running the WASM) to a routing agent. Next we want to show DID Exchange between browsers.
- Working on design for JS Worker interface for Aries Framework Go WASM.
- Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
- Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
- Aries-StaticAgent-Python - Now up to 0.6.1; more details
- Aries-Toolbox
- Official repo moved to aries-toolbox
- Preparing for a new release based on the latest ACA-Py
- Aries-SDK-Python - Wrapper from JeromK and SBCA?
- Aries-SDK-Java
- Aries-Framework-JavaScript / Aries-SDK-JavaScript
- As agreed in the connect-a-thon, planning efforts on merging the aries-sdk-javascript codebase into a single framework repo - aries-framework-javascript
- Starting with the efforts on the React-Native Mobile Agent.
- 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
- Additional LibVCX Aries protocol support released in December.
- Ursa 0.3.1 release in January
- Delegate-able credentials
- Flexible configuration options
- ZMix 0.1.0 expected in January
- Ursa and ZMix will be separate releases. ZMix is the proving code, and Ursa is everything else.
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 RFCs on purpose decorator (generic JSON messages) and HTTP over DIDComm.
- Aries WG B call: HTTP & purpose decorator
Other Business
- Current state and direction of DIDComm (Sam Curren)
- DIDComm WG status: https://hackmd.io/6Lv0HOi1SbqbBtthtIr9aw?view
- Scope: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/concepts/0005-didcomm
- GitHub repo created next week
- Future of DIDComm: Tobias' proposal for JWM
- Collaborating on the Indy-Aries-VDR
- Andrew Whitehead's work should be available for review next week.
- Current state and direction of DIDComm (Sam Curren)
Future Topics
- Next call
- Q&A about the Aries Framework Go Никита Хатеев
- Other:
- Aries KMS design
- Define approved algorithms
- Define plugin interface
- 3rd party libraries we could leverage:
- Google Tink as an encryption library
- Hubs vs Agents
- 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)
- Aries KMS design
Action items
Call Recording