2023-08-23 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

Date

Aug 23, 2023 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

Attendees                 

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

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

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

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

• @Jason Sherman (BC Gov/Quartech) <jason@usingtechnolo.gy>

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

• @bruce_conrad@byu.edu (Pico Labs) <bruce_conrad@byu.edu>

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

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

Bifold paused for August

AFJ is bi-weekly with meetings (during summer, read: august)

DIF DIDComm Users Group Meets 2,3, and 4th Mondays: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-usergroup/blob/main/schedule.md

TOIP - DID:webs DID method compatible with did:web but adds some security in the form of KERI audit logs - Repo: https://github.com/dhh1128/did-method-webs, published spec: https://dhh1128.github.io/did-method-webs/index.html

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 0.10.0-rc0 released last week, 0.10.0-rc1 likely today or tomorrow, 0.10.0 soon after that.

  • 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

Discussion Topics

• Aries marketing update - @Helen Garneau @Alex Metcalf  

  • Please review draft Wiki page: New Hyperledger Aries Draft

  • See the first Aries content changes live: https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/aries

  • Join our marketing working group meeting, last Tuesday of every month, next one is this Tuesday: Aries Marketing Working Group

  • Marketing opportunity: HL Staff Marketing this quarter is focused on Identity - HL staff eager to use resources from HL community - reach out to Helen, Sean, etc.

• DID Rotation for DIDComm v1

  • https://hackmd.io/13XktKS2TgSrpY2ti9JX-A

  • Solves the transformation problem?

  • requires DID Method support in DiscoverFeatures

    • subset indicator

    • prefix - imperfectly specifies some adjustments

      • with exclude options?

    • regex? - may be parsed differently across languages

• Unqualified DID transition / did:peer:2/did:peer:3

  • Existing plan vs did:peer:? with short+long form?

  • Stephen Presentation

  • Unqualified to Qualified DID Community Coordinated Update

    • Issues for transforming unqualified DIDs to DIDDoc 3:

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

        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/blob/main/features/0067-didcomm-diddoc-conventions/README.md

          • "type": "did-communication",

  • Goal Codes for simulated Connection-less Presentations

  • AIP 2.0 Clarifications

• Open Discussion

  • Managing push notifications when the message is an "agent management" message – not of interest to people (e.g., DID Rotation).

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: