2021-01-27-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
Summary:
Work updates
Id Proofing through signals and artifacts - ledgerless approach to VC - @Robert Mitwicki
Open Discussion (as time permits)
Note: This call was recorded and the recording and chat transcript are at the bottom of the page.
Date
Jan 27, 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>
@Matt Raffel<mattr@kiva.org>
@alex Laniakea Health <alex@seropass.me>
@Sam Curren (Indicio.tech) <sam@indicio.tech>
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.
27 Jan - Mediator Agent Intro - ACA-Py based mediator - https://www.meetup.com/indicio-identity-community/events/275673041
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
2021-01-28 Identity Implementers WG Call (9am MT / 4pm UTC)
Release Status and Work Updates
Aries Protocol Test Suite
Aries Agent Test Harness
Aries Framework Go backchannel in process
DID Exchange tests added
Aries Shared:
Aries Shared: Fully functional branch that uses the shared libraries, not 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 0.6.0 to be released shortly
DID Exchange/OOB
Multi-tenancy
Mediator
Internal support for Indy/Aries Shared libraries
In progress work
Credential Exchange 2.0 with AnonCreds support
Persistent Queues to better run in scalable environments (Kubernetes)
Starting on W3C Standard Verifiable Credential support with ZKP/Selective Disclosure (BBS+)
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.
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:
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
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