2021-01-13-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)

Summary:

• Work updates
• Interoperable storage network built for the decentralized world - https://source.network/
• Open Discussion (as time permits)

Note: This call was recorded and the recording and chat transcript are at the bottom of the page.

Date

13 Jan 2021 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

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Attendees                                                                                                                                                            

• Name (Organization) <email>
• Robert Mitwicki <robert.mitwicki@humancolossus.org>
• Christos Patsonakis (CERTH) <cpatsonakis@iti.gr>
• Mike Richardson <mrichardson@proofmarket.io>
• Philip Feairheller <phil@scoir.com>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
• Charles Lanahan (Trustscience Inc.) <charles.lanahan@trustscience.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• IIW April - virtual event (April 20th-22nd, 2021) - https://internetidentityworkshop.com
  • The website states that tickets are already available (from December 14th onwards) but nothing appears to have been activated yet.

Related Calls

• Previous Aries Working Group B calls

• ACDC - see ACDC (Authentic Chained Data Container) Task Force at ToIP for more info.

• DIF DIDComm WG Call: Rolling Agenda.
• Indy contributors call
• 2021-01-14 Identity Implementers WG Call (9am MT / 4pm UTC), presentation:  Patrik Stas will be provide an introduction to the Indyscan project and how it helps monitor the health of Indy-based ledgers.  

Release Status and Work Updates

• Aries Protocol Test Suite
• Aries Agent Test Harness
• Aries Shared:
  
  • Aries Shared: Current focus is to get a branch of ACA-Py running without the indy-sdk
    • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead)  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
    • indy-shared-rs - https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-shared-rs
    • aries-askar (storage): https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-askar
• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)
  • Release 0.5.6 released
    • Getting close on an ACA-Py branch that used Aries Shared
    • PR merged adding DID Exchange protocols
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
  • 2020-11-03 Meeting Notes
  • 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.
    • Encrypted Data Vault (EDV) from DIF SDS spec format has been implemented. Works as an encryption wrapper to underlying storage providers.
    • DIF EDV/SDS REST client is in progress. Docker image will support configuring EDV endpoint as wallet storage.
  • Remote KMS support is in progress. Docker image will support configuring remote KMS. 
  • 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.
    • New contributions of MongoDB and RabbitMQ support to the ext repo.
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
• 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 HCF - repo https://github.com/thclab/aries 
• Aries-SDK-Java
• Aries-Framework-JavaScript
• Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
• Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin (Aries MAX)
• Pending contributions from GlobalID:
  • indy-sdk PR for IOS
  • indy-sdk-android
  • Aries Framework IOS (Swift)
  • Aries Framework Android (Kotlin)
• Ursa

Notes:

• Architecture of Aries Verifiable Credentials Proof Formats
  • https://github.com/decentralized-identity/vc-spec-map

RFC Progress

Other Business

Future Topics

• Next Meeting
• Other:
  • Where should we document interoperability results (AIP 1.0)? A page in this wiki space?
  • Hubs vs Agents
    • https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2019/07/23/rhythm-and-melody-how-hubs-and-agents-rock-together
  • Status and future of wallet query language
  • DID Resolution W3C and Sam's concerns: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/130
  • Connectionless 
  • KERI - deep dive / transaction family / Notary groups / 
  • Ledgerless approach to VC - Robert

Action items

Call Recording