2020-08-19-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
Summary
Issue Game
Horcrux Protocol
Transaction Endorser ("Please Sign This") Protocol
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Date: Aug 19, 2020 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)
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Attendees
Sam Curren (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
@John Callahan (Veridium) <jcallahan@veridiumid.com>
Troy Ronda (SecureKey) <troy.ronda@securekey.com>
Keith Smith (IBM) <bksmith@us.ibm.com>
Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
@George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>
@Timo Glastra (Animo) <timo@animo.id>
James Ebert (Indicio) <james.ebert@indicio.tech>
@Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
@Daniel Hardman (Evernym) <daniel.hardman@evernym.com>
@Ajay Jadhav (AyanWorks) <ajay@ayanworks.com>
Welcome / Introductions
Announcements
Indy Interop-athon Conference - Details and registration
Sept 1 - 2 Virtual - same platform as iiw.
Efforts to organize led by Stephen Curran
User Story: As a prover, I want to be able to create a proof that includes claims from credentials rooted in different Indy networks that a verifier can verify so that I can easily interact with issuers using different Indy networks.
Related Meetings Review
Ursa -
Indy Contributors - Every 2nd Tuesday 8am US/Pacific - Last call - planning for the Indy Interop-athon
Identity WG / Identity WG Implementer calls (Wed / Thurs) - No meeting this week. The next meeting Is 27 Aug 2020 (Wiki page: 2020-08-13 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
Friday meetings
Regular friday meetings, contact Keith Smith for details
Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-agent-test-harness - Aries Interop Testing
Better alignment with RFCs - e.g. States; externalizing data elements - e.,g, credentials, proof requests
Issues raised in framework repos
aries-framework-dotnet work done to the level of ACA-Py testing - nice work by @Timo Glastra and team at Animo
Aries Shared:
indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
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
Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)
Release 0.5.4 coming Real Soon Now
Simplifying controller support for issuing revocable credentials
Even more unit test coverage (now at 98.81%)
Contributions in progress:
Multi-Tenant Agent - from @lukas.ml.mueller and collaborators
Java Clients
Mediator configuration
Issuer Kit with revocation support
Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
Finishing removal of legacy KMS.
Controllers now have gomobile bindings. Still need to add bindings for notifications.
Investigating BBS+ JSON-LD signatures
Investigating DIF attachments in issue credential and present proof protocols (and relevant implementation aspects in the Go framework).
Presentation Exchange
Credential Manifest
Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
JSON-LD 1.1 Signatures updates (incorporating updates from https://github.com/ruby-rdf/json-ld)
Medium updated article in works (https://medium.com/@johnrcallahan/linked-data-signatures-with-ruby-3fa4dbc8e1fb)
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, gbarp)
Horcrux gem for ActiveStorage (https://github.com/johncallahan/activestorage-horcrux)
will be moving to https://github.com/decentralized-identity/horcrux eventually
Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
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
Ursa
Agenda
Horcrux Protocol - Jack
Transaction Endorser Protocol (Stephen)
Closing Game
Next Week
Requests?
new AIP?
protocol type update
oob PRs
Future Topics
Vince Albanese - future speaker: DirectTrust hack-a-thon Nov 2020 (DIDComm on XMPP)
Migrating to new JWE envelope format: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/478
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