2023-05-24 Aries Working Group Call

Owned by Sam Curren
Last updated: May 24, 2023
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Summary:

  • Open Wallet Foundation

Date

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



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Attendees                   

Welcome / Introductions) 

Announcements

Release Status and Work Updates

Discussion Topics


  • Open Wallet Foundation
  • Notes from this meeting
    • Items that are expected by the community from OpenWallet Foundation
      • Education
      • Webinars
      • Blogs
      • Meetups
    • Marketing committee (Helen)
      • long overdue work that could help clarify Aries brand.
      • Hyperledger brand refresh under way (late June)
    • Two topics
      • Aries scope
        • What is it
          • Set of frameworks that can work with protocols, credential types, crypto, etc. from a wide variety of sources. - John Jordan
          • SSI built on top of DIDComm, primarily using HL Indy - Timo (what it is now)
            • Has grown past that - Andre
          • My own interpretation is that Aries is the protocol which verifiable credentials are issued, held, and presented. Right now the protocol is didcomm/anoncreds/indy based. But those are evolving to be abstracted and support other standards (transport, credential format/type, and ledger agnostic) - Clecio
          • foundation / underpinning is indy, anoncreds, and didcomm. Perception outside our group is that Aries IS those things. - Warren
          • Wallet vs Agent terms
        • What happens if work exceeds that scope?
      • Potential move to OWF
    • What is the pitch from OWF?
      • (every other week is a conflict for the OWF Technical Advisory Council)
    • Aries is a few things (mechanically)
      • Software
      • Protocol Design
      • Aries Interop Profile
      • Interop Testing
      • OCA
  • Notes from last meeting on the topic 
    • 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
      • 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

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