2020-03-18 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting

Summary:

Planned Topics:

  • Recent releases, PRs and Issues
  • Help Wanted PRs
  • Revocation Demo
  • AIP 1.Next+

The meeting recording is here.

Date

(11AM Los Angeles, 2PM New York, Thursday at 5AM Sydney)

Introduction Stephen Curran

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Attendees

  • Name (Organization) <email>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

  • ACA-Py Release 0.4.5
  • ACA-Py merger of revocation and subsequent cleanups

Deployments and Work Updates

  • BC Gov Team
    • Aries-VCR/OrgBook BC Deployment - done!  But performance... (sad)
    • Identity Kit - VCs for OIDC Issuer Service - significant demos for all governments in Canada - great response
    • Aries Test Harness work - further evaluation
    • indy-vdr progress
    • New effort indy-credx repo starting
  • Medici Ventures - revocation anoncreds 1.0 - done!
  • Akiff Manji/Petri Dish Development - aries-acapy-controllers repo - three example controllers/three different stacks
  • Sovrin - Aries Toolbox, other demos, test suite and production implementations
  • Cloud Compass - Linux Foundation edX Course - Intro (released), Aries Developer (released)

Agenda

  • News:
    • ACA-Py 0.4.5
      • Clean up release following the addition of some business level verification
    • AyanWorks interop with ACA-Py
    • esataus Mobile Agent
    • Aries VCR (formerly known as indy-catalyst, formerly formerly known as TheOrgBook)
  • Recent closed PRs
    • OpenAPI Demo, OpenAPI Mobile Demo
    • Revocation
    • Beginning of transition of message types from "did:sov:...." to "https://didcomm..."
  • Recent issues - help wanted 
  • Demo - Revocation
  • Discussion: AIP Next - what should it include?

Next Week

Future Topics - Nominations Open

  • Documentation needs
  • Using other DLTs?  Fabric ledger vs. Indy for ledger storage, keep Anoncreds for verifiable creds
  • Breaking up the Indy SDK
  • FAQ materials

Action items