2022-11-09 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

Date

Nov 9, 2022 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

Attendees                   

• @Sam Curren(Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>

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

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

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

• @James Ebert (Indicio) <james.ebert@indicio.tech>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• IIW (November 15-17)

  • No meeting next week!

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)

    • ACA-Py 1.0.0 RC1 released

      • AnonCreds presentations - handling of unrevealed attributes

      • Mediation race conditions

  • 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 - test phase

      • 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

• Can We Close This? 

  • #745, #737, #736 Push Notification PRs (need the right people)

  • #757 Push Notification Concept RFC

• Minor Versions / Error Reports

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

  • PR 756 - unknown error handling

• IIW Topics?

  • Governance Demo - Mike / Simon / Sam

  • AnonCreds as a project

  • Open Wallet Foundation 

    • AnonCreds

    • as related to Aries Projects

  • OCA - Stephen

  • Bifold - shipping two apps from the same codebase.  

• Replacing Indy SDK

  • Enable shared components in all Aries Framework – notable AFJ and Aries VCX

    • React Native wrappers for React Native (needed for Bifold)

  • indy-vdr with did:indy support – how do we get that released?

  • indy-vdr is using Ursa, which is using a deprecated Rust module "failure" – https://github.com/hyperledger/ursa/issues/199; CVE - very high score! Possibly not critical for us, but looks bad.

  • Create a migration tool to export indy-wallet contents and load into aries-askar

  • Create a "shared components" version of the Indy CLI

  • Indy Node internals:

    • New transaction types in indy-vdr – draft PR, but needs work and testing

    • Indy Test Automation relies on the indy-sdk, needs to be moved to indy-sdk

    • Tools on the indy-node nodes – do they use libindy?  Investigation needed – @Lynn Gray Bendixsen / @Wade Barnes to look at/create issue.

  • Community impact on the use of the indy-sdk – a need to migrate

Other Business

Future Topics'

• Issue Credential v2.1 learning

• State-of-union of Aries projects

• OIDC Credential Exchange in Aries - Mike Richardson

• 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