2021-08-11-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Summary

Date: Aug 11, 2021 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)

Attendees

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

Announcements

• IIW (online) Oct 12-14

• Indicio Public Mediator Upgrade/Deprecation (https://indicio-tech.github.io/mediator/)

• Meeting Time Survey: http://whenisgood.net/ariesb/calltime

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:  The Aug 12th meeting is cancelled.  Please join again on Aug 26th.

• 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.

      • AFGO-AFGO now passing; working on AcaPy-AFGO.

  • 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

  • Indy wallet overhaul:

    • Config is less indy specific

    • Lot of methods moved to IndyLedgerService and IndyStorageService in preparation for shared libraries and browser wallet

  • Update to new indy-sdk-react-native (Hyperleger owned version of rn-indy-sdk)

• 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/641 binary object links in credentials

• Complex Credential Flows

  • Need A or B or (B and C)

  • Approaches

    • Existing Protocol Enhancement

    • Higher Level Protocol

    • Machine Readable Governance (Flow/Interaction)

• Governance

  • Assets

  • Authorization

  • Flow

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