2023-05-18 Aries Framework JS Meeting notes

Meeting recording

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Attendees

• Timo Glastra - Animo Solutions (timo@animo.id)
• Karim Stekelenburg - Animo Solutions (karim@animo.id)
• Clecio Varjao  - Government of BC (clecio.varjao@gov.bc.ca)
• Ariel Gentile - 2060.io (a@2060.io)
• Renata Toktar - DSR Corporation (renata.toktar@dsr-corporation.com)
• Alexander Shenshin  - DSR Corporation (alexander.shenshin@dsr-corporation.com)
• Aziz Karabashov - DSR Corporation (aziz.karabashov@dsr-corporation.com)

Resources

• Hyperledger Discord: https://discord.gg/hyperledger (#aries-javascript and #aries-bifold)
• Aries JavaScript Docs: https://aries.js.org/
• Repositories:
  • Aries Framework JavaScript: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript
  • Aries Framework JavaScript Extension: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript-ext
  • Aries Mobile Agent React Native: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native

Status updates

• Aries Bifold (Aries Bifold User Group Meetings)
  • Short meeting to catch up on open PRs
    • Restructuring of repo to monorepo/workspaces has been merged
  • PR open for shared components (draft)
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native/pull/666
    • Issue with older android versions fixed
    • New issue discovered with missing symbols in x86 architecture
    • https://hackmd.io/rUDkxrRzQNCSd4koK67ncA
    • https://github.com/android/ndk/issues/1614
• Aries Call 2023-02-08 Aries Working Group Call
• Releases
  • AFJ 0.4.0-alpha releases (104)
• DIDComm v2
  • April IIW DIDComm v2 connect-a-thon
• Aries Interop Profile 3.0 continues to be discussed https://hackmd.io/_Kkl9ClTRBu8W4UmZVGdUQ
• Shared Components
  • Indy VDR 0.1.0-dev.12
    • React Native & Node.JS
    • No support for older Android versions yet
  • Aries Askar 0.2.8-dev.6
    • React Native & Node.JS
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/pull/1211
    • ACA-Pug Call talking about Askar profiles: 2023-01-24 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
  • AnonCreds 0.1.0-dev.11
    
    • Node.JS
    • React Native
  • Berend made a demo: https://www.loom.com/share/8497e12cb1c64383aa01768ac2551078
• Open Source Summit in Vancouver
  • https://ossna2023.sched.com/event/1K58t?iframe=no

Agenda

• Record the meeting
• Status update on Shared components
  • iOS lower version support 
    • Updates made to Aries Askar & AnonCreds
    • Still need to do Indy VDR
  • Custom repo for cross images for Android builds
• Presentation from Karim Stekelenburg - Future architecture of Aries Framework JavaScript
  • Makes sense that they're together because they're so intertwined and version synced
  • Feels more like AFJ is a thin layer that brings all existing libraries together instead of re-implementing things
  • Aries framework javascript as a generic SSI framework
    • what will it be called in that case?
  • What's the relation of openid to Aries (is there an Aries RFC for OpenID interop?)
  • Aries is mostly DIDComm, it wouldn't make that much sense to externalize DIDComm
    • Externalize can mean two things: out of the core package, same repo, or external repo
  • Survey to ask how people are using AFJ? What features are people interested in?
  • Diagram to see the different components and how they relate to each other?
  • Supported features / roles for production use case
    • Mobile 
      • (holder/verifier) wallet
      • issuer wallet
      • Issues: Performance (startup, etc.)
    • Server
      • issuer/verifier)
      • Mediator
      • Issues: Scalability
• Scalability / Performance issues
  • Startup time
  • High load, lot of records
  • (customer) encrypted database layer 
  • Pagination and querying of encrypted data
  • Storing stringified JSON (and limitations when working with multiple processes)

Meeting Notes

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Recording

https://youtu.be/xu2cBjZGcyc

Future topics

Future Topics:

• It would be good to discuss OCA implementation in AFJ and in Aries Bifold and where should be a boundary between the two in this feature.
• Wallet API redesign (Ariel Gentile )
• Cheqd integration (Daev Mithran )
• AFJ Interop tests not running