2021-03-10 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting

Summary:

Planned Topics:

• Call recap
• Code Review
• Group Goals
  • Short Term
  • Medium Term
  • Long Term
• Code Contributions

Welcome and Introductions

Who you are, and what your interest is in the Bifold effort.

Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>
• James Ebert (Indicio) <james.ebert@indicio.tech>
• Timo Glastra (Animo Solutions) <timo@animo.id>
• Sam Curren (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
• David Clawson(Indicio) <david.clawson@indicio.tech
• Karim Stekelenburg(Animo Solutions) <karim@animo.id>
• Ken Ebert(Indicio) <ken@indicio.tech>

Announcements

Rocket Chat Channel: https://chat.hyperledger.org/channel/aries-bifold

• Aries Framework JavaScript calls every Thursday at 15:00 CET / 07:00 MST (Framework JS Meetings)

Deployments and Work Updates

• Code State to be reviewed in agenda.
• Aries Framework JavaScript
• rn-indy-sdk
  • Added missing present proof related operations. Now works in Android, iOS following

Agenda

• Previous Call Recap
  • Naming
• Code Review
• Group Goals
  • Last time's list: 
  • Group Goals
    • Consolidate mobile app development effort among interested parties.
    • Codebase you can check out and run immediately in an emulator.
    • Active community
    • Production ready app.
    • Whitelabel or UI modules to be included in existing apps
    • Enable an app to collaborate via protocols with wallets
    • Interoperability
    • Ease of use
      • And Aries Protocols to support that ease of use, available to all Mobile implementations
  • Meta
    • Test against ourselves over versions
    • Mobile codebase whiteboard - test concepts/ideas
  • Short Term
    • Basic Functionality - Connection, Issuance, Present-Proof for Verification
    • Typescript config
    • Demo with two people to connect and send a basic message
    • Mediation - coordinate mediation protocol w/websockets
      • Runtime setup and configure
    • Agent Test Harness - AFJ for basic capabilities
    • Ability to clone and white-label the Aries Bifold app
  • Medium Term
    • Introduction protocol
    • Talk and demonstrate Export / Import
      • Backup / Restore
    • Agent Test Harness  - Manual Backchannel
    • Multi-ledger support
      • Similar to Lissi capabilities
    • UI/UX focus
      • Widget toolkit - building blocks – data exchange - data description language
    • UI components to be able to use in an existing RN app
    • Support for newer Aries protocols
    • Machine Readable Governance Frameworks
      • UI/UX
      • Ledger in governance framework
    • SVG credential rendering
  • Long Term
    • Log into a website, OICD?
    • Agent Test Harness - Automated Backchannel
    • Multiple apps on the same phone
      • Cross-app wallet - Aries WG Conversation
    • Mobile specific communication transports
      • NFC
      • Bluetooth - Animo & Indicio have current work
    • Cloud Agent Custodial control from mobile app
    • Synchronization between wallets - Aries WG Conversation
    • Not tied to Indy -other credential formats
    • Continual AIP implementation
    • Ledger services to decouple agents from ledgers - Architecture level
      • Runtime vs compile time
• Code Contributions
  • Legal Troubles?
  • Aries Mobile Agent React Native - https://github.com/Indicio-tech/aries-mobileagent-react-native
  • rn-indy-sdk - https://github.com/AbsaOSS/rn-indy-sdk
    • Jakub  - Ask at AFJ

Next Meeting

• UI/UX Design
• Requests?

Future Topics

Action items