Summary

Planned Topics:

• Mediator Issues Review

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Welcome and Introductions

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Attendees

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• Name (Organization) <email>
• James Ebert (Indicio) <james.ebert@indicio.tech>
• Alberto Antonio Leon (Instnt, Inc.) <alberto@instnt.org>
• Mostafa Youssef (Ontario Gov) <mostafa.youssef@ontario.ca>
• Clecio Varjao  (Government of BC) <clecio.varjao@gov.bc.ca>
• Artem Ivanov (DSR) <artem.ivanov@dsr-corporation.com>
• Alexander Shenshin (DSR Corporation) <alexander.shenshin@dsr-corporation.com>

Announcements

IIW – April 18- 20

Agenda

• Mono-repo re-org PR (really close) - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native/pull/641
• Mediator Issues Review - Akiff / Clecio
  • Mediator w/ACA-Py
    • Slow, first time connects, dropped messages
    • Overall instability as ACA-Py running as a mediator
    • Not able to run as a high-availability instance
  • https://github.com/fullboar/mediator-test-script
    • ACA-Py 0.8.0 (using RC0)
      • ACA-Py 0.8.0 fully released 2 weeks ago
      • Encountered issues with the upgrade migration scripts
  • Was going to try spinning up AFJ as mediator
  • Monitoring is a key thing missing from the mediator
    • Needs to be in the routing level
  • Timeouts on connecting to the mediator
    • Not consistent – more prominent during the startup
  • ACA-Py – low CPU resource can throttle and doesn't actually do a lot due to thread switching
    • Increase resources significantly to address
  • Pickup v2 protocol Live Mode development
    • Not happening as of right now – Clecio
  • Maybe we can aggregate in the aries-mediator-service
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mediator-service/issues
  • People running mediators
    • Alberto - Running ACA-Py mediator
      • 95% of the time it's okay – issues especially at the startup of the agent
    • Indicio - Running ACA-Py mediator w/Pickup Plugin
  • Tasks:
    • Monitoring script development
      • Ontario Upgrade Testing could be adapted to do this potentially
    • Update ACA-Py mediator to 0.8.0
      • Ontario report significant performance improvements
• Updating the Node version
  • Why do we need an upper limit?
  • #675 - remove upper limit
• Artem – Mobile Verifier Demo
• Update to AFJ 0.4.x;
• Creating an AFJ mediator to keep alongside the ACA-py version;
• First work on new repo design will be to break out OCA into an NPM package.

Next Meeting

Future Topics

• Indy ledger namespaces
• Machine Readable Governance Presentation - Mike
• How should we implement Machine Readable Governance?
• Bifold architecture - what's next?

New Action Items

• Jason to come up with a road map for upgrading to RN 0.7x.y for next meeting.
• Jason to create or move Issue for verifier developer feature in Bifold.
• Jason to add Codecov report / bot to repo as a PR check.
  • Consider adding CodeQL from Github to find issues (security or otherwise)

• Jason to create a draft maintainers file as PR for community review.
  • Ref. https://github.com/hyperledger/anoncreds-spec/blob/main/MAINTAINERS.md

• Need to update Sovrin genesis file and check network availability. 
• Fetch genesis transaction as part of a build step.
• Understand if the wallet can update the genesis transaction in the field (post build).
• Problem with pick-up plugin (pickup v2) with mediators. The first message is dropped.
• Clecio will help update ZMQ in indy and give a new build to James.
• James to present some architecture ideas at the next Bifold meeting.

Recording