2022-06-01 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

• DIDComm v2 / AIP Impact?

Date

01 Jun 2022 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

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Attendees                                                                                                                                                            

• Sam Curren (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
• Regis Eloi (IDLab) <regis.eloi@idlab.org>
• Frostyfrog (Indicio) <colton@indicio.tech>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs)<smccown@anonyome.com)
• Philippe Foucault (Gouvernement du Québec) <philippe.foucault@mcn.gouv.qc.ca>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• Cardea Interopathon June 16 (includes basic protocol testing–connection using connections v.1 and OOB invitations, issuance, presentations, basic message, question and answer). Registration link.

Release Status and Work Updates

• Aries Agent Test Harness (https://aries-interop.info)
• Aries Shared Components - Indy SDK replacements
  • Shared Rust Library/CredX (AnonCreds) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-shared-rs
  • Indy Verifiable Date Registry - Ledger Interface https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
  • Aries Askar secure storage - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-askar
    • 0.2.5 release - performance/load work and testing – specific load errors reduced (down to 0.05% error rate), performance up 11%
• Frameworks:
  • Aries-CloudAgent-Python (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python, Meetings: ACA-Pug Meetings)
  • Aries-Framework-JavaScript (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript, Meetings: Framework JS Meetings)
    • Working on 0.3.0 release
      • Issue Credential / Present Proof v2
      • Merged: OOB / DIDExchange - merged last Friday
      • Merged: Holder revocation with revocation notifications support
    • PR open to support lower versions of a protocol
    • Nearing completion for JSON-LD and BBS+ credential support
    • Started working on writing a wrapper for Indy VDR for React Native – Almost ready now
  • Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go, Meetings: aries-framework-go) 
    • Working on support for DIDComm v2, Credential Manifest, OOB v2 and v3 credential protocols (for DIDComm v2)
    • RFC 700 to enable web wallets
  • Aries VCX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx)
  • Aries-Framework-DotNet (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-dotnet)
• Mobile:
  • Aries Mobile Agent React Native, aka Aries Bifold (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native, Meetings: Aries Bifold User Group Meetings)
  • Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin aka Aries MAX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobileagent-xamarin)
• aries-service-mediator repo added – a DIDComm Mediator in a Box
• Aries-Toolbox
• Aries-SDK-Java
• Ursa (https://www.hyperledger.org/use/hyperledger-ursa, https://github.com/hyperledger/ursa)

Notes:

Discussion Topics

• DIDComm v2 WG Approved
  • Impact on AIP v2? (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/blob/main/concepts/0302-aries-interop-profile/README.md)
  • https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm.org/blob/main/site/content/book/v2/whatsnew.md (needs some minor updates)
  • https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-messaging (includes language libraries)
  • https://identity.foundation/didcomm-messaging/spec/

Other Business

Future Topics

• decorator for redirection after proofs. - existing?
• Standardized attribute names for AnonCreds - alignment with VC data model. (Paul Bastian)
  • terms and conditions (as link)
  • machine-readable governance?

Action items

Call Recording