2020-10-07-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Owned by Sam Curren
Last updated: Oct 08, 2020
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Summary

  • Issue Game
  • Global ID Mobile Contributions
  • Invite Interaction Protocol
  • Universal Wallet Spec

This call was recorded:

Date:  (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)

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Attendees

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

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

  • No Meeting Oct 21st

Related Meetings Review

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
    • Revocation test cases being implemented
  • Aries Shared:
  • 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.
    • Working on adding remote encrypted storage capability - with a default implementation of DIF Secure Data Storage - Encrypted Data Vaults.
    • Golang BBS+ investigation.
    • Created repo to handle pluggable go framework components such as Indy VDR: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go-ext
  • Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
  • Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
  • Aries-Toolbox
  • 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
    • Go wrapper proceeding nicely
    • Grand refactor in the next few months. Should not affect the external APIs. Will help future additions.

Agenda

  • Zoom meeting adjustment?
    • New Invite with password in place to avoid waiting room?
  • Invite Action Protocol - Daniel Hardman
  • Universal Wallet Spec
    • current spec
    • Potential Split between Data Model and Interface
    • Adjustments to Data Model for Aries use
    • Inclusion of arbitrary binary data for app specific backup data.
  • Revisit simple request for now() in revocation state proof - Daniel Hardman
  • Closing Game


Next Week

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

Future Topics

  • 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

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