2022-05-24 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@Inidicio.tech>

• Jason Leach (Fullboar / BC Gov) <jason.leach@fullboar.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

  • 0.2.0 is coming soon

• Indicio Public Mediator being re-deployed (https://indicio-tech.github.io/mediator/)

  • Old mediator being decommissioned Jun 19th

  • New mediator requires HTTPs

  • Will soon be deploying with the Pickup Plugin

Agenda

• AFJ Message processing queuing

  • Connection request followed by credential issuance

  • Short-term fix: Contact Akiff for WS Transport Patch (based off of AFJ 0.2.0-alpha.20)

  • Followup:

    • Long term fix: waiting for did-exchange

    • Aries WG - discuss out of order messages

    • AFJ: Config params needed or wanted?

• Async Ledger Issuance Bug in iOS Releases - James

  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/issues/647

• Tab Navigation configuration - Ryan

  • Configuration

  • Next: what can actually go in the nav bar, up to some limits.

    • Ordering, labeling

    • More fine-tuned control for end developers

• Questions for maintainers / other discussion?

  • Documentation - trouble setting up on Linux

    • Jason committed to docs updates

    • James README updates

  • Dependency Issues

    • Dependabot PRs

    • React Native update

  • iOS simulator - Clecio from BCGov

    • Indy-sdk compiled for arm

    • Maybe should be added to: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk-react-native/

    • Camera can't inject QR codes similar to Android

• 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