2021-02-24-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

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Last updated: Feb 24, 2021 by Stephen Curran
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Summary

  • Aries Exit Incubation
  • AIP 2.0

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>
  • James Ebert  (Indicio) <james.ebert@indicio.tech>
  • Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
  • Christos Patsonakis (CERTH) <cpatsonakis@iti.gr>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

March 9,10,12 - Thoughtful Biometrics 

April 20-22 - IIW

June 8-10 Hyperledger Global Forum

Related Meetings Review

  • Ursa - 
  • SSI in IoT WG
  • Indy Contributors - Every 2nd Tuesday 8am US/Pacific - CI/CD of Indy Node and Plenum, Ubuntu 20.04 release, indy-sdk ready
  • Indy DID Method Tuesdays 7am Pacific - Last: The possibility of adding a data element to a NYM to enable full DIDDoc support, eliminating the need for finding related DID+ATTRIB.
  • 2021-02-25 : Identity Implementers WG Call (9am MT / 4pm UTC) – Lohan Spies (did:x) will provide a presentation of tools & methods for monitoring the health and security of Indy-based ledgers.
  • DIF DIDComm WG - Monday's at Noon US/Pacific - Sam Curren (Mon) - DID Doc services, etc.
  • Aries Bifold / Aries Mobileagent React Native - early community discussions
  • TrustoverIP Saturn5 Interop Testing

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
    • Working on status page to describe the state of each daily test run (combinations of ACA-Py, Aries Framework .NET, Aries Framework Go and Aries Framework JavaScript)
      • Looking for more participants - Evernym, Aries-VCX, etc.
      • Looking for someone to add a Mobile Wallet Test Agent
        • Kiva looking to do this with mobile agent and mediator
  • Aries Shared:
  • Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)
    • Release 0.6.0-RC1 tagged and image posted.
      • A couple of tweaks between RC0 and RC1.
    • In Progress:
      • Persistent Queues – Kiva – WIP PR submitted using redis and supporting plugin queue managers
      • BDD test suite of integration tests that supplement the AATH tests – different startup options, e.g. multi-tenancy, mediator, etc.
      • Signed Transaction/Endorser Protocol
      • Credential Exchange V2 (0454) – almost done
    • Started:
      • Getting to W3C Verifiable Credential support with ZKP and Selective Disclosure
        • DHS SVIP JSON-LD Verifiable Credential exchange in Aries Protocols
      • Plans for this is outlined here: https://hackmd.io/@animo/acapy-bbs-2
  • Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
    • Move storage definitions to service provider interface module.
    • Improvements to storage implementations.
    • Adding support for BBS+ curves in KMS (and then complete integration of presentation-exchange with BBS+ in the framework)
    • Implementing UniversalWallet2020 APIs
    • Fix: JSON-LD context verification when parsing verifiable presentations
  • Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
  • Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
    • Revocation intervals affecting search - fix submitted.
  • Aries-Toolbox
  • Aries-SDK-Java
  • Aries-Framework-JavaScript - Framework JS Meetings
  • Aries-Bifold / Aries-Mobileagent-React-Native - Aries Bifold Meetings
  • 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



Next Week

  • RFCs for Indy AnonCred attachments, JSON-LD attachments (at least) and perhaps BBS+ attachments.
  • JWE Envelope discussion.
  • Perhaps: What's Wrong with OOB and DID Exchange and what should we be doing? - George Aristy

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