2020-10-28-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
Summary
Issue Game
Kiva Mobile App Goodness Demo
IIW Recap
Privacy-preserving proof of uniqueness
Mime Types for DIDComm
This call was recorded:
Date: Oct 28, 2020 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)
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Attendees
Sam Curren (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
Drummond Reed (Evernym) <drummond.reed@evernym.com>
@Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
James Ebert (Indicio Tech) <james.ebert@indicio.tech>
Daniel Hardman (Evernym) <daniel.hardman@evernym.com>
Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
Welcome / Introductions
Announcements
Related Meetings Review
Ursa -
Indy Contributors - Every 2nd Tuesday 8am US/Pacific -
2020-11-5 Identity Implementers WG Call (9am MT / 3pm UTC) .
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
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:
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 0.5.6 is out.
Revocation hardening
Unified config files (yaml), command line and environment variables
Contributions in progress:
Multi-Tenant Agent - from @lukas.ml.mueller , SICPA and collaborators
Java Clients
Mediator configuration
Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
BBS+ Verifiable Credentials implemented using pure Go. Example.
Next tasks: interop testing against Mattr implementation and selective disclosure capabilities.
Working on adding remote encrypted storage capability - with a default implementation of DIF Secure Data Storage - Encrypted Data Vaults.
Created repo to handle pluggable go framework components such as Indy VDR: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go-ext
MySQL and CouchDB components moved to ext repo.
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
Go wrapper proceeding nicely
Grand refactor in the next few months. Should not affect the external APIs. Will help future additions.
Agenda
Kiva Mobile App Goodness Demo - Horacio Nunez (Kiva)
IIW Recap
Aries Askar (not session name) - Andrew Whitehead
Custodial Agents - Sam Curren
Privacy-preserving proof of uniqueness: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/559 (Daniel Hardman)
MIME types for DIDComm: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-messaging/pull/124 (Daniel Hardman)
Feature Discovery
Closing Game
Next Week
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