2023-06-28 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

• Aries RFCs PRs – Let's Merge!
• Aries Marketing Group Update
• Mediators – update
• did:peer progress
• Open Discussion

Date

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

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Attendees                 

• Alex Metcalf (BC Gov) <alex.metcalf@gov.bc.ca>  
• Stephen Curran  (BC Gov / Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
• Helen Garneau (Indicio) <helen@indicio.tech>
• bruce_conrad@byu.edu (Pico Labs) <bruce_conrad@byu.edu>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
• jkrupicka (Matrix Group International) <jkrupicka@matrixgroup.net>
• Sean Bohan_personal (Hyperledger Foundation) <sbohan@linuxfoundation.org

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• Aries Marketing working group

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-dev16
    • 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 0.2.9
  • AnonCreds Rust - https://github.com/hyperledger/anoncreds-rs
    • Release 0.1.0
  • 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
    • 0.8.2-rc1 released – some key updates for certain use cases - one more PR to merge...
    • Stuck on a GHA Issue in moving to Python 3.9. A couple of integration tests that work fine on ACA-Py 3.6, 3.7 are hanging on GitHub Actions 3.8 and 3.9 – but work fine locally!!  Grrr....
      • Help wanted!
    • 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 released! - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/releases/tag/v0.4.0-alpha.87 - HUGE!
  • 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
  • Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go, Meetings: aries-framework-go) 
  • Time To Deprecate?
    • 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
    • 0.4.0 in Bifold – including the shared components
  • Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin aka Aries MAX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobileagent-xamarin)
• aries-mediator-service – a DIDComm Mediator in a Box
  • Update to use SocketDock?
• aries-endorser-server – an Indy Endorser in a Box (in development)
• Aries-Toolbox

Discussion Topics

• Aries Marketing Update - Helen / Alex
  • One draft document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oys7g8y9iSOk5Lp1V6iC3BCHqvsKquonNPJl9v_E3GE/edit?usp=sharing
  • Survey coming soon!  Very important to respond!
• Aries RFC PRs - Let's Merge! – Presentation
• Mediators – SocketDock open sourced!!
  • SocketDock - Indicio – open source repository: https://github.com/Indicio-tech/socketdock

• did:peer / unqualified did migration update
  • Issues with DID Peer 3 – can we address these?
    • Error in DID Peer 3 Example
    • Changes to be made in DID Peer 3   
  • https://identity.foundation/peer-did-method-spec/index.html#generation-method
  • Migration Doc!
    • https://github.com/TimoGlastra/legacy-did-transformation
• Open Discussion

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/9Lyb0SZrwG0