2023-01-05 Aries-vcx community call

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• Free discussion 

• Overview of recent work done

  • Removal of PublicAgent API https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/715

  • Minor refactoring PRs

• Check on work in progress

  • NodeJS: napi-rs based bindings for NodeJS wrapper https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/665

  • Expanded support for (non-mediated) Connection (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/717, https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/718)

  • Verifier using credx https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/708

• 2022 review and current state

  • Modularization & decoupling

    • DDO, Messages

    • libvcx split to api_c, api_vcx

    • Vcxagency mediator becoming optional

  • Simplifications and refactoring

  • Increased community focus

    • community calls

    • new contributors

  • Testing improvements

  • AATH integration

  • NodeJS Wrapper

• 2023 outlook

  • crateification! (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/issues/712)

    • drive APIs and documentation quality

  • DDO resolver  (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/issues/706)

    • think about ledger agnosticity, at least in terms of didcomm

  • Migrating to modular credex libs (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/issues/699)
    
    

    • Credex libraries on issuer+verifier

    • Enable migration of vdr-tools issuer -→ credex issuer 

    • Add support for Aries Askar wallet

  • Continue improving code quality

    • More traits, more typing

    • Faster test execution - parallelization, independence of tests, remove usage of msg mediator

    • Explore use of mocking libraries

  • Further increase community engagement

    • Improve documentation

    • Lower barriers getting started with aries-vcx

    • Aries-vcx based project examples

  • Enhance aries protocols support

  • Dicomm 2.0 exploration

•  Discussion

Parked work:

• AriesVCX-CLI POC https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/692

Task backlog: 

Current architecture diagrams

1.1.2023 LibVCX:

1.1.2023 Aries-vcx

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Comparison - Old Q3 2021 diagram