2021-03-10 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting

Summary:

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