2020-03-25-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)

Summary:

• Future meetings
• Status of the Sovrin Network
• Work updates

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

Date

25 Mar 2020 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

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Attendees                                                                                                                                                            

• Name (Employer) <email>
• Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>
• Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
• Sam Curren (Independent) <telegramsam@gmail.com>
• Adam Burdett (did.report) <burdettadam@did.report>
• George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>
• Echo Harker (Evernym) <echo.harker@evernym.com>
• Kumaravel N (Ford) <nkumara2@ford.com>
• Brent Zundel (Evernym) <brent.zundel@evernym.com>
• Scott Zwierzynski (Chainyard) <scott.zwierzynski@chainyard.com>
• Mohan Venkataraman (Chainyard) <mohan@Chainyard.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• Hyperledger Diversity, Civility, and Inclusivity Survey
• IIW April 28-30

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
  • Issue, credential, and proof tests are merged.
• Aries Shared:
  • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
    • Remaining work: Design doc, FFI, testing, CI / CD
    • As an Aries interface becomes standardized, will add that API layer
    • HTTP Proxy App updates
      • ACAPy using it as a proxy in a branch
    • Integrating into LibIndy in a separate branch, goal is to release in April/May
    • Rich Schemas functions are coming soon
  • indy-credx and aries-credx
    • https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
      • Generic APIs that are pluggable
      • Test vectors for interop
      • Coming soon: Rich Schemas functions
    • https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx
      • Improved revocation (Annoncreds 1) support (faster tails generation)
      • Python wrapper using Pyo3 is solid. Needs FFI.
  • Aries-Shared-Util
    • Pack / Unpack
    • Not started yet
  • Aries-KMS
    • Mike Lodder working on documentation and architecture as an Aries RFC (KMS architecture) and Ursa RFC (API)
      • Differs from Indy Wallet architecture by separating out auth and access control. Intention is to ensure a smooth transition from Indy.
      • Ability to export keys under certain conditions (metadata is set upon key creation)
    • Mike and Cam's aries-core-rs → aries-mayaguez
      https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-kms-rs
      • Evolution from lox
      • Will include a default storage that is not a different implementation from the plugins
    • Indy wallet crate might move to start another aries-kms implementation → aries-kms-vostok
• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)
  • Release 0.4.5 is on PyPi.
  • Revocation support has merged into master and is likely to included in the next release. Some smoothing of the edges happening.
    • Note: uses anoncreds 1.0 (hence, tails files) and so will be constrained in use cases to those with small numbers of credentials (e.g. ~25k per RevReg.)
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
  • Implementing the Out-Of-Band protocol
  • Implementing issue-credential and present-proof protocols
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
  • Added DID/Verkey sign_and_submit to aries_sdk_ruby and published new gem (0.0.8)
  • Created aries-rails-docker experiment that support Rails 4 with Indy 1.8.1 on Heroku & Dokku
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
  • Release last week for Aries compatibility with ACApy and LibVCX (RFC 0094)
• Aries-StaticAgent-Python
• Aries-Toolbox
  • Added basic message admin
  • Working on a getting started video
• Aries-SDK-Java
• Aries-Framework-JavaScript / Aries-SDK-JavaScript
  • Started regular meetings: Framework JS Meetings
• Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
• Aries-OSMA / Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin
  • Open source mobile agent (Mattr Global)
  • https://github.com/mattrglobal/osma
• Ursa
  • 0.3.2 released in February
    • includes key exchange methods, to replace libsodium
    • Had difficulty replacing LibSodium in LibIndy: 
      Error rendering macro 'jira' : null
  • 0.4.0 scheduled for late March
    • Hash to curve
    • Updates to AMCL wrapper
  • Packaging requirements:
    • Rust crate for Indy SDK
    • Debian package for Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 for Indy Node

RFC Progress

Other Business

• Status of the Sovrin Network and the Sovrin Foundation
  • Team hiring in supply chain + Aries: mohan@chainyard.com
  • https://sovrin.org/next-steps-for-the-sovrin-foundation/
  • Who will be moving aries-credx into Hyperledger?
    • https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs

Future Topics

• Next Meetings
  • April 8
    • Formal verification by Sven Hammann
  • April 22
    • IOT best practices by Robert Mitwicki (cc Adam Burdett , Lohan Spies )
• Other:
  
  • Where should we document interoperability results (AIP 1.0)? A page in this wiki space?
  • Hubs vs Agents
    • https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2019/07/23/rhythm-and-melody-how-hubs-and-agents-rock-together
  • Status and future of wallet query language
  • 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