2020-12-09-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
Summary
- Aries Interop Profile Next
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Date: (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)
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Attendees
- Sam Curren (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
- George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>
- Troy Ronda (SecureKey) <troy.ronda@securekey.com>
- Kevin Griffin (Scoir) <kgriffin@scoir.com>
- James Ebert (Indicio) <james.ebert@indicio.tech>
- Daniel Bluhm (Indicio) <daniel@indicio.tech>
- Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
- Mikaela Tarkocheva (Deactivated) (Scoir) <mikaela@scoir.com>
- Drummond Reed (Evernym) <drummond.reed@evernym.com>
Welcome / Introductions
Announcements
Related Meetings Review
- Ursa -
- SSI in IoT WG
- Indy Contributors - Every 2nd Tuesday 8am US/Pacific - CI/CD of Indy Node and Plenum
- Indy DID Method Tuesdays 7am Pacific - Last: Cross-registration, Next: NYMs/ATTRIBs and DIDs/DIDDocs
- 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 - new Website with a Dashboard
- 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 - communication with Indy-Node ledgers
- indy-shared-rs - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-shared-rs - includes indy-credx (Anoncreds support) and related packages
- aries-askar - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/aries-askar - secure storage (wallet) initiative
- 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 - Phase 1 merged ACA-Py as a mediator; next is to add support for an ACA-Py instance to use a mediator (Real Soon Now)
- 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
- Release v0.1.5 (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go/releases/tag/v0.1.5)
- Remote encrypted storage capability that leverage DIF Confidential Stores
- Support for WebKMS
- BBS+ Verifiable Credentials with selective disclosure
- Support for
did:web
resolution
- Release v0.1.5 (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go/releases/tag/v0.1.5)
- 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)
- Horcrux gem for ActiveStorage (0.0.4)
- 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
- Ideas:
- 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 571 - Mime Types
- AIP Next - Stephen Curran
- Item Discussions
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