2023-02-08 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

Call Recording:

Extracted recording from the call:

Date

Feb 8, 2023 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

Attendees                   

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

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

• @bruce_conrad@byu.edu  (Pico Labs) <bruce_conrad@byu.edu>

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

• @Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

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

  • AnonCreds Rust - https://github.com/hyperledger/anoncreds-rs

• 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)

    • Version 0.3.2 released - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGgUPPwa63g

    • PR from SICPA for DIDComm v2 on AFJ need help:

      • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/issues/1038

      • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/pull/1096

  • 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)

    • Phil Windley has students working on a DIDComm v2 version of ACA-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)

    • Bifold Summit Happening now – Bifold Summit 2023

    • 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

• Open Wallet Foundation Component Presentation

  • Feb 20, noon US/Mountain

  • 60 min meeting, likely 45 for our presentation.

  • Scope will be Hyperledger Aries

  • We can present whatever we want.

  • Any UX has been mostly declared out of scope - just interested in 'wallet components'

  • I was not going to offer any of these things as direct code contributions (which has been common during other presentations)

  • I wanted to present to raise awareness

  • Proposal:

    • Introduce the Hyperledger Aries projects, with goals and history

    • Aries Askar / shared components

    • Aries Cloudagent Python

    • AFJ

      • Mention as underlying foundation for Aries Bifold

  • Ideally, we have a rep of each project share their project for a few minutes

  • This shows them the size and activity of the community

• AIP 3.0 Tasks

  • https://hackmd.io/_Kkl9ClTRBu8W4UmZVGdUQ

  • Update Issue Credential and Present Proof to include .1 and .2 improvements

    • addition of explicit roles to indicate support for portions of the protocol flow

  • note to list which RFCs are included in the v2 spec

    • @Lance Byrd will add this

  • Indy creds → Anoncreds

  • W3C format

  • BBS+ evolution

  • did:web RFC

    • @Alex Andrei will do this

  • did:peer method 2 RFC ?

  • did:legacypeer @Sam Curren 

  • UX / OCA / Supplements

  • actionmenu

  • push notifications

  • BLE / NFC for OOB (as QR alternative)

• Presentation on the proper way to verify if a presentation meets the presentation request revocation interval

  • Presentation slides

  • Issues to be created

  • Extracted recording from the call:

• OCA for Aries RFC update -- a summary of the recent changes

  • PR: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/755

  • RFC 0755 OCA for Aries: https://github.com/swcurran/aries-rfcs/blob/oca4aries/features/0755-oca-for-aries/README.md

  • RFC 0756 OCA for Aries Style Guide: https://github.com/swcurran/aries-rfcs/blob/oca4aries/features/0756-oca-for-aries-style-guide/README.md

  • Discussion

Other Business

Future Topics

• did:legacypeer

  • draft beginning here: https://hackmd.io/lY-QK03XQP6cTj2XfQyOZw

  • related issue: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/735 (Timo)

  • usable, but un-creatable in DIDComm v2 (use did:peer?)

• Thomas - Apache Camel AIP 1.0- done, touch base early next year.

• Issue Credential v2.1 learning

• State-of-union of Aries projects

• OIDC Credential Exchange in Aries - Mike Richardson

• decorator for redirection after proofs. - existing?

Action items

Call Recording