2020-06-03-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
Summary:
Work updates
Can I use - Can My TDA Do - @Robert Mitwicki ref https://caniuse.com/
getme.vc - showroom for dealing with VC
Aries Toolbox - branches strategy for standalone version and web based
Other businesses
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Date
Jun 3, 2020 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)
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Attendees
Name (Organization) <email>
Robert Mitwicki @Robert Mitwicki(The Human Colossus Foundation) - robert.mitwicki@humancolossus.org
Mike Richardson (EuroLedger) emerysolutions@yahoo.co.uk
Sam Curren (Indicio.tech) <sam@indicio.tech>
Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
Scott Zwierzynski (Chainyard) scott.zwierzynski@chainyard.com
Gary D. DeGruccio <gddg57@ptd.net>
Welcome / Introductions
Announcements
Trust Over IP - Decentralized Semantic Worging Group:
Related Calls
Previous Aries Working Group calls
connectionless
import/export for aries agent
DIF DIDComm WG Call: Rolling Agenda.
Identity Implementors Working Group call
Tomorrow call - Demonstraton from streecreed
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:
Aries Shared:
indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
Nearing release 0.6(?) - most work complete that was needed: Design doc, FFI, testing, CI / CD
CI - GitHub actions runs unit tests and basic integration tests
CD not there
No design doc, but crate docs
Rich Schema merged and behind a feature flag
Refactoring PR not merged - cleanup, internal simplification, crate docs
indy-credx - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-credx
Experimental ACA-Py branch created that can do credential exchange with indy-credx
indy-shared-rs - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-shared-rs
Shared features across indy-vdr and indy-credx
pack/unpack on Ursa (not libsodium)
aries-credx
https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
6 most common attribute encodings (but not anoncreds 1 attribute encoding)
Can make a non-revocable credential and create proofs.
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 - Postgres backend for credential storage
https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-kms-rsPersistence work allows plugging in any database engine.
Focus is using an external enclave.
aries-kms-vostok - indy-wallet capabilities moved to an Aries base
Andrew also working on that
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)
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
PR for Connections Update
Converted to a web application by @Robert Mitwicki - repo https://github.com/thclab/aries
Upcoming cleanup items
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)
Some work has been done to support the W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model specification
Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin (Aries MAX)
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.
Agenda:
RFC Progress
Other Business
Future Topics
Next Meeting
Transferable reputation via VC (Mike)
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)
Connectionless
KERI - deep dive / transaction family / Notary groups /
Chain credentials 0104-chained-credentials