2020-05-06-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)

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Last updated: May 06, 2020 by John Callahan
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Summary:

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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  • Name (Organization) <email>
  • Ken Ebert (Indicio Tech ) <ken@indicio.tech>
  • Robert Mitwicki (robert.mitwicki@humancolossus.org)
  • Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

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
  • 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
      • VON Tails Server created based on indy-vdr created.
    • indy-credx - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx
      • 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
    • Aries Secure Storage initiatives:
  • Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)
    • Release 0.5.1 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
    • Edge agent in work based aries-framework-go using WASM with support for DIDs, VCs and DIDComm support being added
  • Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
  • Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
    • Release last week for Aries compatibility with ACApy and LibVCX (RFC 0094)
  • Aries-StaticAgent-Python
  • Aries-Toolbox
  • Aries-SDK-Java
  • Aries-Framework-JavaScript
  • Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
    • Some work has been done to support the W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model specification
  • Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin (Aries MAX)
  • 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 Topics

Action items

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Call Recording

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