2022-04-12 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting

Summary:

Planned Topics:

• Basic Messaging Demo
• Q&A w/Maintainers

Welcome and Introductions

Who you are, and what your interest is in the Bifold effort.

Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>
• James Ebert (Indicio) <james.ebert@Inidicio.tech>
• Regis Eloi(IDLab) <regis.eloi@idlab.org>
• Ryan Koch (Indicio) <ryan@indicio.tech>
• Jason Leach (BCGov) <jason.leach@fullboar.ca>
• Philippe Foucault (Gouvernement du Québec) <philippe.foucault@mcn.gouv.qc.ca>

Announcements

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

Deployments and Work Updates

• Aries Framework JavaScript
  • Multi-ledger support added
  • Revocation

Agenda

• IIW scheduling discussion? - https://internetidentityworkshop.com/
  
  • Canceling next call
• Basic Messaging Demo - Ryan Koch
• Yarn Discussion
  • RN boilerplate prefers yarn
• Ledger Configuration Followup Discussion
• Open PRs:
  • Indy Post-Install Script
  • Bifold Framework Draft PR
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native/pull/277
    • Workflows changes discussion
      • Goal Codes
      • Machine Readable Governance
      • Verifiable connections
        • Verified email connection
        • Verifier social network
        • DID .well-known file domain ownership - proves control of domains
        • Connection metadata - AFJ
• Verifying businesses/organizations discussion
  • Direct method: Machine Readable Governance Files - approved issuers, verifiers via public dids
    • Lists public DIDs
    • Limited by scale
  • Indirect method: Smaller list of top level issuers, if the connection can present a credential from that smaller list
    • Scales more effectively
    • Can use machine readable governance file
    • Request and present credentials
    • Protocol update perspective - additional information may be useful in the presentation or issuance of a credential
      • optional information update, not necessarily required
    • Cases for implementing indirect method:
      • BCGov - Orgbook
  • Europe QR Code spoofing - man in the middle attack

• Open Issues:
  • Push notifications
    • ACA-Py plugin coming soon
    • Aries Framework JavaScript Extension here
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/issues/647
• Development Roadmap Planning
  • Clarify Bifold goals 
    • Make it as easy as possible to incorporate ssi pieces
    • Make a UI framework / toolkit
    • Start Componentization within Bifold
      • Start with exporting Bifold everything
      • Tackle component customizations
    • Move away from "fork and forget"
  • Features:
    
    • Transition to Out of Band Invitations - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/main/features/0496-transition-to-oob-and-did-exchange 
    • Componentization (moving components to afj-extensions)
    • Revocation UIs
      • Functionality
        • TODO: James Ebert to create GH issue
      • Revocation notifications
        • TODO: James Ebert to create GH issue
    • Connection-less presentations using Out of Band
    • Update Credential UI/Logical
      • Archiving credentials
    • Messaging
    • ODCA - Credential Overlay Capture
    • Auto Present Feature
      • Machine readable governance - trust issuers, verifiers
    • Contact branding - trusting issuers, verifiers
    • Accessibility standards
    • Handling length credential issuance processes
    • Predicate Proofs
    • QR-Code generation
    • Deep Linking
    • Indy Shared Components - Indy VDR, Indy Credx, Aries Askar
    • Biometrics
• Questions for maintainers / other discussion?

Next Meeting

• SVG Credential Package updates?

• Discuss: planning improvements to the wallet for the community

Future Topics

• Machine Readable Governance Presentation - Mike
• How should we implement Machine Readable Governance?

Action items