2020-07-22-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
Summary
- Governance Application
Note: This call was recorded:
Date
(12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)
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Attendees
- Sam Curren (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
- George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>
- John Callahan (Veridium) <jcallahan@veridiumid.com>
- Timo Glastra (ANIMO) <timo@animo.id>
- Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
- Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
- Nathan George (Kiva) <nathang@kiva.org>
Welcome / Introductions
Announcements
- DIF Interop WG Charter (draft):
- Sovrin TGB Volunteers needed.
- Indyopathon Conference?
- Efforts to organize led by Stephen Curran
- Topic: Creds from two or more indy networks.
- Day or two long workshop.
- Help welcome.
Vince Albanese - future speaker: DirectTrust hack-a-thon Nov 2020 (DIDComm on XMPP)
Related Meetings Review
- Ursa -
- Semantics - Next meeting: Never - transitioning to be in the ToIP Foundation - see RocketChat channel for details and how to join the successor group
- DID UX Call - Active?
- SSI in IoT WG
- Indy Contributors - Every 2nd Tuesday 8am US/Pacific - DIDDoc support into Indy with minimal changes to ledger code.
- Identity WG / Identity WG Implementer calls (Wed / Thurs) - July 30, at 9 am US/Mountain (Wiki page: 2020-07-16 Identity WG Implementers Call)
- DIF DIDComm WG - Monday's at Noon US/Pacific - Sam Curren (Mon) - DID Doc services, etc.
Upcoming Releases and Work Updates
- Aries Protocol Test Suite
- Instructions, docker added - Try It!
- Issue, credential, and proof tests are merged.
- esatus backchannel
- Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-agent-test-harness
- Test compatibility between any two agents
- Better alignment with RFCs - e.g. States; externalizing data elements - e.,g, credentials, proof requests
- Work happening on an aries-framework-dotnet backchannel – going really well, by Timo Glastraand team
- Aries Shared:
- indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
- Help Found! Update `did:sov` method of the DIF universal resolver to use indy-vdr instead of indy-sdk
- 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-framework-rust - https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
- Aries Secure Storage initiatives:
- Soon to be pubic - from Andrew Whitehead
- indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
- Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)
- Release 0.5.3 will come soon
- Proof validation handling needs a fix.
- Release 0.5.3 will come soon
- Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
- Implementing Android/iOS capability
- Investigating BBS+ JSON-LD signatures
- Investigating DIF attachments in issue credential and present proof protocols
- Presentation Exchange
- Credential Manifest
- Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
- Still working on JSON-LD 1.1 Signatures updates
- Exploring BBS+ Signature support via rust bridge (same as used in Mattr's https://github.com/mattrglobal/jsonld-signatures-bbs)
- Looking at Andrew Kane's lockbox gem for KMS with rails ActiveRecord (https://github.com/ankane/lockbox)
- Beginning to open source GBAId RoR prototype: https://github.com/veridium/ (byoi, gbaid, gabidp, ggbarp)
- Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
- BBS+ support added - a wrapper. Tech spike work. https://github.com/streetcred-id/bbs-signatures-dotnet
- 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 - Framework JS Meetings
- Current focus is on mediator use case (NodeJS)
- Plan for 1.0 defined; refactoring to be done
- Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
- Some work has been done to support the W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model specification
- Modifications to use BBS+ LD sigs as a first step - early exploration.
- Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin (Aries MAX) - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobileagent-xamarin
- Ideas:
- Automatic offer acceptance/managing credentials
- Machine readable governance
- Ideas:
- Ursa
- Revocation 2.0 in process
Agenda
- RFC 348 - Transition message types to https.
- IBM Status PR?
- Applications of Governance
- Scenario Spreadsheet
- Daniel Edit of Email Ownership Framework
- Closing Game
- Example Governance Framework (Sam)
- Engage in Governance Frameworks (Sam)
Next Week
- Requests?
- ActionMenu RFC
- Presentation Exchange Format overview from DIF CC WG rep.
Future Topics
- ActionMenu
- Migrating to new JWE envelope format: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/478
- DKMS status
- Credential Fraud: Example how in ACA-Py to verify same link secret across multiple credentials in presentation
- Schema interop - how to reuse a schema across different networks Robert Mitwicki(RFC in progress)
- Using WebSocket as a way to communicate back to the mobile/desktop wallet (Agent (services or user) as a proxy for communication between service and digital wallet) Robert Mitwicki
Action items