2020-01-08-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
Summary:
Planned Topics:
- Issue Game: Can we close this?
- "Not Mature" line in the aries repo readme - remove?
- Concern with RFC 302 Aries Interop Profile v1.0
- Connection Blues
Note: This call is being recorded.
Date
(12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)
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Attendees
- Name (Organization) <email>
- Stephen Curran (BC Gov/Cloud Compass), swcurran@cloudcompass.ca
- John Callahan (Veridium) <jcallahan@veridiumid.com>
- George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>
- Troy Ronda (SecureKey) <troy.ronda@securekey.com>
- Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
- Daniel Hardman (Evernym> <daniel.hardman@evernym.com>
- Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>
- Adam Burdett (Sovrin Foundation) <adam@sovrin.org>
- Ken Ebert (Sovrin Foundation) <ken@sovrin.org>
- endrefalquier (Spaceman ID) <alexis@spaceman.id>
- Michael Black (Streetcred ID) <michael.black@streetcred.id>
Welcome / Introductions - Stephen Curran
Announcements
- Updated Hyperledger Calendar: Calendar of Public Meetings
- Aries-6 Community Confirmation: Move BC Gov Credential Registry contribution "Indy Catalyst" to Aries, calling it "aries-verifiable-credential-registry" (Aries VCR)
Related Meetings Review
- Ursa - No calls since the last Aries meeting.
- Semantics - yesterday's call: Handling big data in an Indy Credential - workaround - Hashlink. Link to Paper
- DID UX Call - Slack/Mailing list - details in the shared document as well minutes and additional information, currently focus on Purpose Based Services
- SSI in IoT WG
- Indy Contributors - Richard Esplin (Mon) - No call this week
- Identity WG / Identity WG Implementer calls (Wed / Thurs) - no calls since last Aries meeting
Upcoming Releases and Work Updates
- Aries Protocol Test Suite
- Aries Shared:
- Aries KMS
- Verifiable Data Registry Interface (VDRI) library
- Other Core Libraries (pack / unpack)
- Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov) - Alice gets a GUI! A PR submitted by Akiff Manji with three demo web controllers in three different tech stacks (Express/JS, Angular, .NET)
- Aries Cloud Agent - Python User Group starting soon - watch for announcements
- Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
- 2019-12-17 Framework Go Weekly Planning
- RFC implementation status and Wishlist
- Continuing efforts on routing & relays, crypto/kms, WebAssembly, generic JSON messages, JWE envelopes, verifiable credential Go package.
- 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.
- 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-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
- LibVCX 0.5.0 with Aries protocol support released today.
- BC Gov team working on splitting the Indy Ledger Interface from the rest of the Indy SDK. First step of uncoupling the dependencies within Indy. Will be embedded in an Aries implementation of the Aries VDRI.
- 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
- ZMix 0.1.0 expected in January
- Ursa and ZMix will be separate releases. ZMix is the proving code, and Ursa is everything else.
Agenda
- Issue Game: Can we close this? (15 min -) - Stephen Curran issues (as time permits): #352, #362, #329, #343, #337, #336, #201 - Presentation
- Decisions - Close 352, Tomislav Markovskiis taking 362, Close 329, Kyle Den Hartogis taking 343 and updating the related RFC, Stephen Curran will update an RFC related to 337 (now closed), and Daniel Bluhmwill merge the related Test Suite PR
- "Not Mature" line in the aries repo readme - remove? (5 minutes) Stephen Curran
- Decision: Richard Esplinto do a PR against the aries repo with improved guidance for those arriving at the repo.
- Concern with RFC 302 Aries Interop Profile v1.0 (20 minutes) Richard Esplin Daniel Hardman
- Non-interactive protocols require more thought to avoid compromising the privacy of end users. Issue link.
- Decision: Drop Trust Ping and Discover Features from AIP 1.0.0, keeping Problem Report.
- Concerns with the Service Decorator. PR link.
- Decision: Defer discussion to next week.
- Non-interactive protocols require more thought to avoid compromising the privacy of end users. Issue link.
- Connection Blues (20 Minute) - Stephen Curran - Presentation
- Shortened session introduced the topics and the challenges. Issue to be raised by Stephen Curran
- Open Discussion / Next Week Topics
Next Week
Future Topics
- Next Week: Generic JSON Protocol (RFC 351) and HTTP over DIDComm (RFC 335) - Filip Burlacu
- Next Week: Should the ~service decorator be part of AIP 1.0.0? PR link. Richard Esplin
- DIF Interop Project - Project is proceeding, connect the communities at IIW
- DKMS status
- Credential Fraud: Example how in ACA-Py to verify same link secret across multiple credentials in presentation
- Schema interop - how to reused schema across different networks Robert Mitwicki(RFC in progress)
- 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
Action items
Call Recording