2021-07-28-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Summary

Date: Jul 28, 2021 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)

Attendees

• @Sam Curren(Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>

• @Mike Ebert (Indicio) <mike@indicio.tech>

• @Troy Ronda (SecureKey) <troy.ronda@securekey.com>

• @Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

• Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>

Announcements

• Invited RFP from Ontario for contributors to Bifold, AFJ, etc.

Related Meetings Review

• Ursa - 

• SSI in IoT WG

• Indy Contributors - Every 2nd Tuesday 8am US/Pacific (next week) - CI/CD of Indy Node and Plenum, Ubuntu 20.04 release. no updates.

• Indy DID Method Tuesdays 7am Pacific - no updates

• 2021-07-29 : Identity Implementers WG Call:  Horacio Nunez (Kiva) will give an overview of some of Kiva's SSI efforts.

• DIF DIDComm WG - Monday's at Noon US/Pacific - @Sam Curren (Mon) - 

•  - early community discussions

• TrustoverIP Saturn5 Interop Testing - Friday 9am EST (@Keith Smith )  See "Saturn V - Vendor Scrum (TSWG)" at https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Calendar+of+ToIP+Meetings

• Cardea - Users Group meeting every Thursday 10am MDT - https://cardea.app/  -  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3933667495?pwd=ZnlPSDJBcnljL0svS1djVGswcS84QT09

Upcoming Releases and Work Updates

• Aries Agent Test Harness - Test Run Status: https://aries-interop.info

  • Connectivity between AF-Go and ACA-Py based on a did:orb DID achieved.

  • PR (almost...) ready to merge to demonstrate BBS+/JSON-LD credential exchange between AF-GO and ACA-Py.

  • PR (almost...) ready to merge that demonstrates Out-of-Band connection reuse.

• Aries Shared Components

  • Support added to ACA-Py main branch, enabled by `--wallet-type askar`. Uses `aries-askar` for wallet storage, `indy-credx` for Indy Anoncreds support, and `indy-vdr` for ledger communication.

• Aries-CloudAgent-Python

  • Release 0.7.0 published, official release.

    • Release Notes: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python/releases/tag/0.7.0

    • Documentation: https://aries-cloud-agent-python.readthedocs.io/en/0.7.0/

  • Next up: Enabling resolving DIDs to multiple Indy ledgers in parallel – e.g. starting up with an array of genesis files and trying all of them when resolving a ledger object (DID, etc.)

• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go

  • Working on AIP 2.0, AATH integration, and AcaPy integration.

    • AFGO-AcaPy connectivity now passing in AATH.

      • Including multiple DID method scenario (AFGO writes DIDs to orb and AcaPy writes DIDs to indy and usage of universal resolver).

    • Working on integrating AATH for Issue Credential v2 and Present Proof v2 with JSON-LD.

  • Working on selecting Envelope v1 vs v2.

  • Working on WACI-PeX based on AFG (in TrustBloc project).

  • Future RFCs:

    • Redirect-based OOB.

    • Multiple sources for presentations.

• Aries Mobile Agent React Native - Aries Bifold Meetings

  • UI / Code structure update PR pending

  • Discussion to utilize Aries Shared Components

  • @aries-framework/redux-store documentation/consumption work

• Aries-Framework-JavaScript - Framework JS Meetings

  • Meetings will be held at Thursday 7:00 AM MST / 3:00 PM CET

  • Split up into multiple packages

    • "@aries-framework/core" - https://www.npmjs.com/package/@aries-framework/core

    • "@aries-framework/node" - https://www.npmjs.com/package/@aries-framework/node

    • "@aries-framework/react-native" - https://www.npmjs.com/package/@aries-framework/react-native

  • Merged

    • Coordinate Mediation - RFC0211 - PR opened

    • Smart auto acceptance of credentials and proofs

    • Discover features protocol

  • Connection-less issuance and proofs

• Aries-Cloudagent-Pico

• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)

• Aries-Framework-DotNet (@Tomislav Markovski )

• Aries-Toolbox

• Aries-SDK-Java

• Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)

• Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin (Aries MAX) - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobileagent-xamarin

• Ursa

Agenda

• PR Review

  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/692 Issue Multiple

  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/655 Error reporting in DID Resolution Protocol

  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/694 RFC (SVG+Credential)

  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/685 Pickup Protocol - Updated

• Protocols, Machine Readable Governance Frameworks, and Interaction Documents 

  • Mike Ebert - WIP RFC

  • https://hackmd.io/YwxiPlzBSXy0jf-5v3D_Vg?view

  • https://github.com/thecardeaproject

• Andrew's Revocation Scheme - Presented by Stephen

• WACI-PEx

  • Is it real, and should we be paying attention?

  • Who else is planning on it?

• What are the next few issues we can assist within Aries?

Next Week

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

Recording