2022-10-19 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

Date

Oct 12, 2022 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

Call Recording: 

Attendees                   

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

• @Warren Gallagher (AffinitiQuest) <warren@affinitiquest.io>

• @Kim Ebert (Indicio) <kim@indicio.tech>

• @Rodolfo Miranda (RootsID)<rodolfo.miranda@rootsid.com>

• @bruce_conrad@byu.edu <bruce_conrad@byu.edu>

• @Ariel Gentile<a@2060.io>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• IIW (November 15-17)

• AnonCreds as HL Project

  • Proposal to be presented to the Hyperledger TOC (formerly the TSC) tomorrow 7:00 Pacific / 16:00 Central Europe (Zoom)

  • Google Doc of Presentation- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_hlZZNkY1gmdi3Basz4LRh_U9xK0NTkQ4vTowyWeYeY/edit?usp=sharing

  • Hyperledger HIP PR #7

• Request to start a working group for accelerating DIDComm V2 in ACA-Py, AFJ and AATH – Contact @Lance Byrd

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)

    • New PRs to be added to ACA-Py 0.7.5 – cherry picking has commenced.

  • Aries-Framework-JavaScript (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript, Meetings: Framework JS Meetings)

    • Version 0.2.4 released - bugfixes and ActionMenu support

    • Working on 0.3.0 release

      • Generalization - only need formats required to be supported in an instance

      • Documentation site!!!

      • Present Proof v2 - merged today - AnonCreds done, W3C JSON-LD VCs still in progress/DIF PE

      • Basic support for AIP 2.0

  • Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go, Meetings: aries-framework-go) 

  • Aries VCX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx)

  • Aries-Framework-DotNet (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-dotnet)

  • Picos as Aries agents (https://github.com/Picolab/aries-cloudagent-pico)

• 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 Framework JavaScript 0.2.2 now merged into Aries Bifold

    • BCGov has realeased an Aries Bifold version, rebranded w/ BC blue/theme/etc (BC wallet)

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

• aries-mediator-service – a DIDComm Mediator in a Box

  • working on Pickup support

• aries-endorser-server – an Indy Endorser in a Box (in development)

• Aries-Toolbox

• Aries-SDK-Java

• Ursa (https://www.hyperledger.org/use/hyperledger-ursa, https://github.com/hyperledger/ursa)

Discussion Topics

• Corporate Firewalls and Indy

  • https://hackmd.io/@n5FW6jwuRfCgchBDNWR3VQ/H1kNlKpmo

  • Happiest path – have Indy Nodes accept HTTPS request. Is that viable? Take the conversation to Indy Contributors call next Tuesday.

• Minor Versions - PR 752 - agreement to merge this - need approval and announcement on Discord to confirm.

• Can We Close This? – Presentation

  • PR 747 Credential Supplements - agreement to merge this - need approvals and announcement on Discord to confirm. Suggest a clarification PR to follow with more motivation/why? content.

  • PR #748: Proposal of RFC for n-wise DID exchanging - this is an "experimental" RFC, but has value and should be merged, pending Maintainer Approval and Discord posting

  • PR #755 OCA for Aries – still in draft, but presentation has notes on recent updates made to the RFC based on feedback received.

    • Suggestion: Cancel (or merge…) PR #740 — updates to RFC0013 Overlay to be up to date. However, since RFC0013 is (more or less) the OCA Specification, it should be archived.

  • PR #746 feat: add shorten url protocol – pointed out to the community that the PR was closed by the author and recreated in the DIF DIDComm repo, as it is a DIDComm feature rather than an "Aries use of DIDComm" feature.

• For future meetings:

  • #745, #737, #736 Push Notification PRs

  • #727 An Ack (RFC 0015) can’t be a FAIL message

• Request for help – Wrap the Aries RFC repo in a Static Site Generator and publish to be a more useful resource. At minimum, we need guidance about how the protocols should be used for those new to the community.

  • Another future discussion.

Other Business

Future Topics'

• State-of-union of Aries projects

• OIDC Credential Exchange in Aries - Mike Richardson

• Proxy Ledger Access Followup

• 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?

• Multiple sigs on a credential - Shivam Sethi

Action items

Call Recording