2020-12-02-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Summary

• Aries Interop Next
• Toolbox mediation Demo

This call was recorded:

Date: 02 Dec 2020 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)

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Attendees

• Sam Curren (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
• Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
• James Ebert (Indicio) <james.ebert@indicio.tech>
• Timo Glastra (Animo Solutions) <timo@animo.id>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

Related Meetings Review

• Ursa - 
• SSI in IoT WG
• Indy Contributors - Every 2nd Tuesday 8am US/Pacific -  See you next week about Releases of Indy Node and Indy SDK
• Indy DID Method Tuesdays 7am Pacific - Network Naming
• 2020-12-3 Identity Implementers WG Call (9am MT / 4pm UTC), presentation:  Nicole Khor (Anonyome Labs, University of Queensland) will discuss her ongoing research into integrating SSI technologies with existing browser-based authentication protocols, such as WebAuthn.
• 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
  • CI Pipeline running – daily execution based on main branch of source systems.  acapy-acapy, dotnet-dotnet, acapy-dotnet
  • Visualization of the results - behave output
  • Discovered an unanticipated incompatibility in ACA-Py main branch - pheww...
  • Adding aries-framework-go backchannel
  • Adding DID Exchange tests
• Aries Shared:
  • Working ACA-Py branch doing credential exchange!  Adding handling in anticipation of JSON-LD credentials.
  • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead)  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
  • indy-credx - https://github.com/bcgov/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 Secure Storage initiatives:
    • https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/aries-askar
• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)
  • Release 0.5.6 is out.
  • Contributions in progress:
    • DID Exchange support added yesterday to main branch – testing
    • Adjustments for supporting aries-askar – mostly internal
    • Persistent Queues – Kiva
    • Multi-Tenant Support -  SICPA and collaborators (Animo, Anon Solutions)
    • Mediator Support – Indicio
    • Getting to W3C Verifiable Credential support with ZKP and Selective Disclosure with Revocation.
      • DHS SVIP JSON-LD Verifiable Credential exchange in Aries Protocols
      • May be doing some bounties related to this
    • Thinking about adding aries-vdr concept – pluggable, multi-ledger resolution
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
  • BBS+ Verifiable Credentials implemented using pure Go. Example.
    • Interop tests against Mattr implementation
    • Add selective disclosure capabilities
    • Interop tests against Mattr for selective disclosure
  • Adding support for did:web
  • 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

• Issues
  • PR 564 - terminology tweak

• ACA-Py Mediation / Aries Toolbox demo
• AIP Next - Stephen Curran
  • AIP Doc: 

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