2020-08-26-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)

Summary:

• Work updates
• Interoperable Schema - warm up Robert Mitwicki
• Aries Toolbox - Services, VC with consent - Update  Robert Mitwicki
• Other businesses

Note: This call is Recorded. Recordings posted at the bottom of the page.

Date

26 Aug 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
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
• Sam Curren (Indicio.tech) <sam@indicio.tech>
• Oliver Terbu (ConsenSys) <oliver.terbu@consensys.net>
• Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
• Paul Knowles (The Human Colossus Foundation) <paul.knowles@humancolossus.org>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• Indy interoperability conf - 2days - early September (1st and 2nd) - (how to enable flow between e.g. sovrin and findy)
  • Information and registration here: Indy Interop-a-thon - Making "Network of Networks" Real

  • https://bit.ly/indyinterop20

Related Calls

• Previous Aries Working Group B calls
• DIF DIDComm WG Call: Rolling Agenda.
• Indy contributors call (next week)
• 2020-08-27 Identity Implementers WG Call (9am MT / 3pm UTC), DIDComm presentation by Sam Curren
• Trust Over IP - Decentralized Semantic Working Group
  • https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Unified+Data+Control+Semantics

Release Status and Work Updates

• Aries Protocol Test Suite
• Aries Agent Test Harness
  • Complete .NET Backchannel
  • Additional tests around proofs - rejection, connectionless
  • Reviewing coverage of AIP 1.0 – are we done?
  • Looking at negative test cases
• Aries Shared:
  
  • Aries Shared:
    • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead)  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
    • indy-credx - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-credx
      • plan to merge to aries credx
    • indy-shared-rs - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-shared-rs
    • aries-credx
      • https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
    • Aries Secure Storage initiatives
• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)
  • Release 0.5.4 done - Release Notes
    • simplification of revocation handling
    • simplification in the controller space
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
• 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
• Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
• Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin (Aries MAX)
• Ursa

Agenda:

RFC Progress

Other Business

Future Topics

• Next Meeting
• Other:
  • Where should we document interoperability results (AIP 1.0)? A page in this wiki space?
  • Hubs vs Agents
    • https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2019/07/23/rhythm-and-melody-how-hubs-and-agents-rock-together
  • 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 / 
  • OwnYourData - Data Vault and MyData Operator 

Action items

Call Recording