2023-05-17 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

• DID Peer / Unqualified DIDs
• Open Wallet Foundation

Date

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

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Attendees                   

• Sam Curren (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
• Alexandra Walker (Indicio) <alex.walker@indicio.tech>
• Frostyfrog (Indicio) <colton@indicio.tech>
• James Ebert (Indicio) <james.ebert@indicio.tech>
• Stephen Curran (BC Gov/Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
• Alexander Manecke (Deutsche Telekom, IDunion) <a.manecke@telekom.de> 
• Timo Glastra (Animo) <timo@animo.id>
• Ry Jones (Linux Foundation)
• Helen Garneau (Indicio) <helen@indicio.tech>
• Berend Sliedrecht (Animo) <berend@animo.id>
• Karim Stekelenburg (Animo) <karim@animo.id>
• Tim Bloomfield (OPS) <tim.bloomfield@ontario.ca>
• Rodolfo Miranda (RootsID)<rodolfo.miranda@rootsid.com>
• Andre Kudra (esatus AG) <a.kudra@esatus.com>
• Christopher Hempel (esatus AG / IDunion) <c.hempel@esatus.com>
• Sebastian Bickerle (neosfer GmbH / lissi / IDunion) <sebastian.bickerle@neosfer.com>
• Peter Janes (Abdagon AG) <peter.janes@abdagon.com>
• Ariel Gentile (2060.io) <a@2060.io>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• June 7-9 https://diceurope.org/
• Hackathon – https://didhack.xyz/ – need an Aries Developer to monitor Discord to answer questions from participants
• AnonCreds Workshop May 31, 2023 08:00 AM 

Release Status and Work Updates

• Aries Agent Test Harness -- https://aries-interop.info
• Aries Shared Components - Indy SDK replacements
  • Indy Verifiable Date Registry - Ledger Interface https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
    • Release 0.4.0-dev14
    • Release 0.5.0 will have breaking changes, including did:indy branch merged into main.
  • Aries Askar secure storage - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-askar
    • Release 0.2.8
  • AnonCreds Rust - https://github.com/hyperledger/anoncreds-rs
    • Release 0.1.0-dev16
  • Shared Rust Library/CredX (AnonCreds) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-shared-rs - being replaced by AnonCreds Rust
    • Release 0.3.2 tagged
• Frameworks:
  • Aries-CloudAgent-Python https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python, Meetings: ACA-Pug Meetings
    • 0.8.1 released – focused on the upgrade command, most relevant to multi-use invitations – including mediators.
    • New documentation site: https://aca-py.org
  • Aries-Framework-JavaScript https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript, Meetings: Framework JS Meetings
    • Version 0.3.3 released - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/releases
    • Version 0.4.0 in progress - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/releases/tag/v0.4.0-alpha.87
  • Aries VCX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx, Meetings: Aries-VCX Meetings
    
    • Release 0.53.0 https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/releases/tag/0.53.0
  • Picos as Aries agents (https://github.com/Picolab/aries-cloudagent-pico)
    • Phil Windley has students working on a DIDComm v2 version of ACA-Pico
  • Less active repos:
    • Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go, Meetings: aries-framework-go) 
    • Aries-Framework-DotNet (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-dotnet)
• 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
• aries-endorser-server – an Indy Endorser in a Box (in development)
• Aries-Toolbox

Discussion Topics

• DID Peer Update?
  • Alex added PR for Method 3: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/peer-did-method-spec/pull/49
• Unqualified DID Conversion to did:peer:2
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/blob/main/packages/core/src/modules/dids/methods/peer/peerDidNumAlgo2.ts#L94
  • RFC? - Volunteer Needed!
• Open Wallet Foundation
  • The Opportunity
    • A potential re-homing of Aries to OWF
  • The Circumstances
    • Community needs decisions together
  • The Challenges
  • Notes on discussion and questions to be clarified
    
    • High ambition level of OWF
      
      • Goal is to create code that has relevance in code that meets regulatory requirements (e.g. as part of the EU Digital Identity Wallet)
      • Aries features and approaches can gain better representation in compliance and regulatory settings employing wallets (key leverage point for Aries community)
      • Outreach to European Commission already established at OWF
    • Funding
      • 300 orgs listed in doc
      • https://openwallet.foundation/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2023/02/OpenWallet-Foundation-Overview.pdf
      • 41 listed current sponsors
      • 7 million draft budget?
      • Funding state? Will fundraising match needs?
      • Difficulty of orgs being members of All The Things.
        • Time
        • Money
    • Project Support from Hyperledger
      • Hyperledger social reach is larger
      • Training workshop organized by HyperLedger
    • Code and Standards being co-located in the same org is difficult
    • Aries implementing standards designed outside of Aries
      • mDL
      • OpenID4VerifiableCredentials
      • Beyond Aries?
    • OWF explicitly does not want to create standards, OWF core is creating code to implement standards
    • Perception of the scope of Aries? What Aries does/is:
      • RfCs
      • Code matching RfCs
      • Interop Profiles
    • ToDo: More clearly communicate what Aries does, also towards OWF

Other Business

Future Topics

• Niels Klomp offered a deeper dive into the openid4vc related flows
• Thomas - Nessus DIDComm 0.23.2 First Release
  • Wallet abstraction for AcaPy + Nessus native
  • Camel Http Endpoint for Nessus agent
  • Support for RFC0434 Out-of-Band Invitation V1 & V2
  • Support for RFC0023 Did Exchange V1
  • Support for RFC0048 Trust Ping V1 & V2
  • Support for RFC0095 Basic Message V1 & V2
  • CLI to work with supported protocols and model

• State-of-union of Aries projects
• decorator for redirection after proofs. - existing?

Action items

Call Recording

https://youtu.be/ed58MI2Mviw