2023-07-26 Aries Working Group Call

Jul 26, 2023 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

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

• @Wade Barnes (BC Gov / Neoteric Technologies Inc.) <wade@neoterictech.ca>

• @Warren Gallagher (AffintiQuest) <warren@affinitiquest.io>

• @jkrupicka (Matrix Group International) <jkrupicka@matrixgroup.net>

• @Emiliano Suñé (BC Gov / Quartech) <emiliano.sune@quartech.com>

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

• @Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

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, Documentation: https://aca-py.org

    • Release 0.9.0 – with new Release 1.0.0 CredX 

  • 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-service – an Indy Endorser in a Box (in development)

• Aries-Toolbox

• Aries marketing update - @Helen Garneau @Alex Metcalf  

• Aries Endorser Service -- proposal to enable fine-grained control for writing

• Aries RFCs – PR reviews:

  • Unqualified to Qualified DID Community Coordinated Update

    • Issues for transforming unqualified DIDs to DIDDoc 3:

      • Should we include both a Verification Key and a (derived) Key Agreement Key in the did:peer:2?

      • What should the DIDComm Messaging "type" be?  "IndyAgent", "did-communications", "DIDCommMessaging"?

  • Goal Codes for simulated Connection-less Presentations

  • AIP 2.0 Clarifications

• Open Discussion

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

• |State-of-union of Aries projects

• decorator for redirection after proofs. - existing?

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