2020-09-23-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Summary

• Issue Game
• Email Access Governance Framework
• DIDComm v2 What's New
• Indy Revocation Issues in Aries

This call was recorded:

Date: 23 Sep 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>
• George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>
• James Ebert (Indicio) <james.ebert@indicio.tech>
• Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• IIW Oct 20-22 (will be held online) 

Related Meetings Review

• Ursa - 
• SSI in IoT WG
• Indy Contributors - Every 2nd Tuesday 8am US/Pacific - Last call - planning for the Indy Interop-athon
• 2020-09-24 Identity Implementers WG Call (9am MT / 3pm UTC), Kevin Griffin and Philip Feairheller from Scoir will be giving a presentation of Canis
• DIF DIDComm WG - Monday's at Noon US/Pacific - Sam Curren (Mon) - DID Doc services, etc.
• Indy Interop-athon Conference - Quick recap

Upcoming Releases and Work Updates

• Aries Protocol Test Suite
  • Instructions, docker added - Try It!
  • Issue, credential, and proof tests are merged.
  • esatus backchannel
  • OOB protocol testing added (phase 1)
  • 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
    • Askar - (means guard or soldier)
• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)
  • Release 0.5.4 is out.
    • Simplifying controller support for issuing revocable credentials
    • Even more unit test coverage (now at 99%)
  • 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
  • 0.1.4 release notes
  • Mobile (android/iOS) code snippets for using protocols and receiving notifications (Java/Kotlin; Objective-C/Swift). See Go framework mobile agent README.
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
  • Horcrux gem for ActiveStorage (0.0.4)
    • moved to https://github.com/decentralized-identity/activestorage-horcrux
    • refactored to change blob key directly (instead of via Tempfile)
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
• Aries-Toolbox
  • Connections Update Complete
  • ACA-Py Toolbox Plugin updated to support ACA-Py 5.3
  • Dependency Updates
  • Converted to a web application by Robert Mitwicki - repo https://github.com/thclab/aries 
• 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

• Closing Game
  • PR 532 - Status Update on community coordinated type transition.
• Machine Readable Governance Framework - Sam
  • PR 535 - Initial Framework
  • Discussion Questions
• DIDComm V2 What's New? - Sam
  • Guide Section
  • Rough Notes
• Indy Revocation Issues in Aries - Stephen - Presentation

Next Week

• Requests?
• new AIP?
• protocol type update 
• oob PRs

Future Topics

• 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