2023-07-12 Aries Working Group Call

Jul 12, 2023 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

• @Sam Curren (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>

• @Alex Metcalf (BC Gov) <alex.metcalf@gov.bc.ca>

• @Helen Garneau (Indicio) <helen@indicio.tech>

• @Frostyfrog (Indicio) <colton@indicio.tech>

• @Tim Bloomfield (OPS) <tim.bloomfield@ontario.ca)

• @Stephen Curran  (BC Gov/Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>

• @James Ebert (Indicio) <james.ebert@indicio.tech>

• @Clecio Varjao  (BC Gov)<clecio.varjao@gov.bc.ca>

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 0.3.3 Bugfix (bug was in the python wrapper)

    • Breaking changes new version 1.0 CLSignatures library, removed ursa dependency.

      • (Pip requirements motivated the 1.0 version bump)

• Frameworks:

  • Aries-CloudAgent-Python https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python, Meetings: ACA-Pug Meetings

    • 0.8.2 released! 

    • 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

• Aries Marketing Update - Helen / Alex

  • Please complete this 3-minute survey right away:
    https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfcgocuAzDNrk85Hk7m5v0IMTkz6lDuD6zqCrbN59rJZw84rQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

• Community Selector Demo - James

• did:peer / unqualified did migration update

  • Issues with DID Peer 3 – can we address these?

  • https://github.com/decentralized-identity/peer-did-method-spec/pull/55 (fixes)

  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/793

  • https://identity.foundation/peer-did-method-spec/index.html#generation-method

  • Migration Doc!

    • https://github.com/TimoGlastra/legacy-did-transformation

  • did:peer:2 or did:peer:3?

    • Stephen votes 3.

  • Community Coordinated Update - 

    • timing - a month

• VCX Update - Patrik (Next Week!)

• Open Discussion

• 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?

https://youtu.be/ieXRj-5dp_8