2022-11-03 Aries Framework JS Meeting notes

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Attendees

• Moritz Schlichting (Animo Solutions) <moritz@animo.id>

Resources

• Hyperledger Discord: https://discord.gg/hyperledger (#aries-javascript and #aries-bifold)
• Aries JavaScript Docs: https://aries.js.org/
• Repositories:
  • Aries Framework JavaScript: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript
  • Aries Framework JavaScript Extension: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript-ext
  • Aries Mobile Agent React Native: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native

Status updates

• Aries Bifold (Aries Bifold User Group Meetings)
• Aries Call
  • Discussion on Push Notifications
  • Removed ACK Fail - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/727
    • Relevant issue in AFJ: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/issues/1074
• DIDComm v2 Adoption
  • Where are we?
  • What would help?
  • Comments welcome on spreadsheet for important DIDComm v2 considerations/attributes
  • Discussion welcome in the discord channel
  • Join the discord or reach out to Lance Byrd
• IIW is coming up - https://internetidentityworkshop.com
  • November 15 - 17

Agenda

• Record the meeting
• 0.3.0 release
  • Write migration guide like https://aries.js.org/guides/updating/versions/0.1-to-0.2
  • Plan
    • Write migration guide → need to wait for complete changelog
    • Make 0.3.0 release
  • Extensions updates
    • Hooks → Bifold (BCGov/Indicio/Community)
    • Rest → Animo
• Decline issuance / proof request PR - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/pull/1014
• Post 0.3.0
  • Shared Components (0.4.0)
  • JSON-LD credential issuance/verification (0.3.x)
  • Ledger Agnostic AnonCreds – related to shared components (0.4.0/0.5.0)
  • Type aware eslint rules (after JSON-LD issuance/verification, incremental)
  • Slimming down core (incrementally)
    • extract into separate package and depend on the separate package from core → remove in next major release

Meeting Notes

• Failures in Aries Agent Test Harness
  • https://allure.vonx.io/api/allure-docker-service/projects/findy-b-javascript-f-dotnet/reports/384/index.html
  • https://allure.vonx.io/api/allure-docker-service/projects/findy-b-javascript/reports/383/index.html
• Performance issues multi-use invitation vs single-use invitation (using AFJ mediation)
  • Might this be related to v1 vs v2
• OpenID connect  integration  with AFJ? (offline)
• Push on shared components
• URGENT!: How can we get https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/pull/795 merged as soon as possible
  • It's costs maintenance overhead for Mike (Richardson)
• MIgration guide:
  • Please follow the guide
  • Either:
    • Open issues if things are missing in https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-javascript-docs OR
  • Or:
    • Comment on the PR https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-javascript-docs/pull/74

Future topics

Next Week:

• Shared components how to finish asap
• Mikes PR merge
• potentially multi vs single use invite performance

Future Topics:

• React Native testing
• Monorepo dependencies
  • TypeScript types

• ACA-py and AFJ performance/scale documentation
• Mike's modularization, etc documentation
• Open ID Connect for Issuance/Verification
  • https://openid.net/specs/openid-4-verifiable-credential-issuance-1_0.html
  • https://github.com/bcgov/vc-authn-oidc
• Hyperledger fabric and Aries wrapper new updates

Meeting recording: