2021-05-19 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting

Summary:

Planned Topics:

• Code Status
• React Native versioning
• Work Items
• Questions / Discussions

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>

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
• SITA, Indicio launch Aruba Health App, built using components of Aries Bifold: https://www.sita.aero/pressroom/news-releases/sita-indicio-pave-way-to-safer-travel-experience-with-launch-of-aruba-health-app/

Deployments and Work Updates

• In progress - QR Code generation and presentations - Indicio
  • rn-indy-sdk Present Proof additions in iOS
• Aries Framework JavaScript
  • Released 0.0.19-unstable.0
  • In Progress - Revocation - Animo
  • In Progress - Mediation (coordinate-mediation) - Indicio
  • Dependency Injection
  • do not connect to ledger on startup -- only when needed
  • genesis transactions instead of genesis path
  • file system implementation
  • internalized WS and HTTP outbound transporters
  • Doing some testing with Electron
  • Custom errors for framework (makes it a lot easier to use the framework)
  • ISSUE: errors we create. Working on it. 
• Aries Agent Test Harness (AATH) manual mobile backchannel
• Updating to React Native 0.64.1! https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native/pull/45
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/issues/2346#issuecomment-841000640

Agenda

• Code Status
  • Github Project
• React Native 0.64.1 Updates
• Shared Components
  • Separated Indy Components in AFJ (with interfaces)
  • Ledger operations - Indy VDR, Indy VDR as Proxy, Indy SDK
    • Create an interface
  • C wrapper with Turbo modules
  • Outline approach in Indy VDR Issue
  • Start with one component - Indy VDR
• Relevant componentization / state management discussion
• Questions for maintainers / other discussion?
  • User Data Storage
  • Machine Readable Governance Framework

• 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

• Requests?

Future Topics

Action items