2021-03-24 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>

• @David Clawson(Indicio) <david.clawson@indicio.tech>

• @Karim Stekelenburg(Animo Solutions) <karim@animo.id>

• @Timo Glastra(Animo Solutions) <timo@animo.id>

Announcements

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

• Code has moved to Hyperledger! https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native

• Indicio open sourced a new wallet design: https://indicio.tech/blog/indicio-contributes-novel-ui-messaging-design-for-digital-wallet-to-open-source-community/

Deployments and Work Updates

• iOS working and documentation added

• In progress - QR Code generation and presentations - Indicio

• Aries Framework JavaScript

  • In Progress - Revocation - Animo

  • In Progress - Mediation (coordinate-mediation) - Indicio

• rn-indy-sdk

  • Added missing present proof related operations. Now works in Android, iOS following

• Aries Agent Test Harness (AATH) manual mobile backchannel

Agenda

• Demo / Code Status

• Work Items

  • Github Projects / Work management

    • Assign people to issues / tasks

  • Basic Functionality - UI/UX around it -get on par with other apps

    • Connections

    • Receiving Credentials

    • Presenting Proof

      • Simple - automated select credential

      • Advanced - user selection

        • Attributes not to share - partial proof presentation (create a proposal)

    • Revocation notification

      • Simple UI - show revocation happened

        • Pair programming @ horacio

  • Android update to API 30+ - Horacio

  • Authentication - Pin / Biometrics

    • Background service accessible  - access wallet key

      • iOS concerns on processing time

      • Investigation on this - @James Ebert to create an issue

  • Other work items from the group goals?

  • Credential Offers - Relevant Github Issue #29

  • Basic Messaging - UI - Indicio

    • RN Chat Interface package - research

  • Multi-ledger detection - Timo talking with Lissi team

  • UI/UX

• Generic Storage - User/App data storage

  • Take into account wallet import/export

    • Standardize key:value pairs

    • Universal Wallet spec.

  • Settings format

  • Aries WG call

• 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

Next Meeting

• Bring your UI/UX Developers!

  • UI/UX Design Conversations

  • UI to functionality layers/interactions

  • principle -github discussion

    • UI flexibility/implementation

    • Format of exchange

  • Indicio wallet design showcase by Scott Harris

• Requests?

Future Topics

Action items