2020-04-22-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
Summary:
Plans for IIW
Work updates
Plan for future meetings
IOT best practices
Note: This call is Recorded. Recordings posted at the bottom of the page.
Date
Apr 22, 2020 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)
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Attendees
Mike Richardson (EuroLedger) <emerysolutions@yahoo.co.uk>
@George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>
@Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>
@Robert Mitwicki The Human Colossus Foundation <robert.mitwicki@humancolossus.org>
Welcome / Introductions
Announcements
IIW April 28-30
Mttr's proposal for a different approach to ZKPs
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
One agent under test
Issue, credential, and proof tests are merged.
Aries Agent Test Harness
Test compatibility between any two agents
Aries Shared:
indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
Nearing release 1.0(?) - most work complete that was needed: Design doc, FFI, testing, CI / CD
CD not there
No design doc, but crate docs
As an Aries interface becomes standardized, will add that API layer
Do we hold off on setting the version until this is in place. Maybe 0.8
GitHub actions runs unit tests and basic integration tests
VON Network browser moved to Indy-VDR instead of LibIndy (no wallet needed because it is stateless)
Andrew working a refactor in a PR
indy-credx - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx
need to move ASAP to at least BC Gov repo - @Andrew Whitehead
ACA-Py branch created that can do credential exchange with indy-credx
Next up: adding revocation 2.0 support
Integrating upgraded PyO3 library
indy-shared-rs - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-shared-rs
Shared features across indy-vdr and indy-credx
pack/unpack on Ursa (not libsodium)
home for revocation support? Or at least shared set membership proof handling?
aries-credx
https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
6 most common attribute encodings
Does not have anoncreds 1 attribute encoding.
Can make a non-revocable credential and create proofs.
Tagging will be moved to the KMS.
Mike will be working on revocation registry 2.0
Aries Secure Storage initiatives:
Mike working on documentation and architecture as an Aries RFC (KMS architecture) and Ursa RFC (API)
PR is submitted: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/440
Mike and Cam's work aries-kms-mayaguez - repo? features?
https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-kms-rsPersistence work allows plugging in any database engine.
Focus is using an external enclave.
Working on Postgres storage; will need help on lox
Something out the end of the week.
Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)
Release 0.5.0 is on PyPi.
Revocation support added and tested with Streetcred and esatus Mobile Agents; major/minor version handling
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
Converted to a web application by @Robert Mitwicki - repo https://github.com/thclab/aries
Aries-SDK-Java
Aries-Framework-JavaScript
Started regular meetings: Framework JS Meetings
Current focus is on mediator use case (NodeJS)
Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin
Evolution of the open source mobile agent (Mattr Global's OSMA)
Ursa
0.4.0 scheduled for late March
Improved hash to curve algorithm
Updates to AMCL wrapper
To replace libsodium, need to have a replacement for the anoncrypt / authcrypt sealed box for pack / unpack.
Can be done in Ursa with two steps, but might add as a single function call.
RFC Progress
Other Business
Future of this meeting
We recognize as a community that each of us needs to adapt to current global events: improving the upstream open source libraries is likely to be slower.
No apology is needed if people take longer to respond to things.
Richard's role changed, so we need a change in host.
@Robert Mitwicki will coordinate the meeting going forward
Fewer meetings and more async collaboration?
IOT best practices by @Robert Mitwicki (cc @Adam Burdett , @Lohan Spies )
Presentation slides:
"Data is like electricity, it has value when it flows." - Michael Corning
IoT is all about data flows, and SSI enables those flows.
Sovrin SSI in IOT working group
SSIMeetup:
Static Agents
Hyperledger Mentorship 2019: Raspberry Pi Indy Agent
Future Topics
Next Meeting
Other:
Where should we document interoperability results (AIP 1.0)? A page in this wiki space?
Hubs vs Agents
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)