2023-07-19 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

• Aries Marketing Update
• Overview: Aries VCX
• Status of Indy SDK
• Open Discussion

Date

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

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Attendees                 

• Stephen Curran  (BC Gov/Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
• Alex Metcalf (BC Gov) <alex.metcalf@gov.bc.ca>
• Helen Garneau (Indicio) <helen@indicio.tech>
• Kim Ebert (Indicio) <kim@indicio.tech>
• Warren Gallagher (AffinitiQuest) <warren@affinitiquest.io>
• Dave McKay <dave@verid.id>
• jkrupicka (Matrix Group International) <jkrupicka@matrixgroup.net>
• Subhasis Ojha 
• Tim Bloomfield (OPS) <tim.bloomfield@ontario.ca>
• Jason Sherman (BC Gov/Quartech) <jason@usingtechnolo.gy>
• bruce_conrad@byu.edu (Pico Labs) <bruce_conrad@byu.edu>
• Jorge Flores (Entidad) <jorge@entidad.io>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

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)
      
    • Release 1.0.0 Embeds new AnonCreds CL Signatures library with fixes, performance improvements
• Frameworks:
  • Aries-CloudAgent-Python https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python, Meetings: ACA-Pug Meetings
    • Release 0.9.0 pending – with new Release 1.0.0 CredX 
    • 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 - HUGE!
  • Aries VCX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx, Meetings: Aries-VCX Meetings
    
    • Release 0.56.0 https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/releases/tag/0.56.0
  • 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 - survey results and new description
  • Survey results presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n5wWNlySk4pUYAf-oUoi3CDDje4OPOVo9pPIjo80obQ/edit?usp=sharing
  • Latest description: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oys7g8y9iSOk5Lp1V6iC3BCHqvsKquonNPJl9v_E3GE/edit?usp=sharing
• Aries VCX - Patrik Stas and team
  • All about VCX
• Status of the Indy SDK
• did:peer / unqualified did migration update
  • Work proceeding in ACA-Py to support did:peer:2/3 
  • Issues with DID Peer 3 – can we address these?
  • https://github.com/decentralized-identity/peer-did-method-spec/pull/55 (fixes) – pending, but last change to be made
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/793
• Open Discussion

Other Business

Future Topics

• Niels Klomp offered a deeper dive into the openid4vc related flows

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

Action items

Call Recording: