2023-09-13 Aries Working Group Call
- Sam Curren
- Alex Metcalf
- Ariel Gentile
Owned by Sam Curren
Summary:
- Unqualified DIDs
- LTS for Aries Codebases
Date
(7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)
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Attendees
- Sam Curren (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
- Alex Metcalf (BC Gov) <alex.metcalf@gov.bc.ca>
- Warren Gallagher (AffinitiQuest) <warren@affinitiquest.io>
- Ariel Gentile (2060.io) <a@2060.io>
- bruce_conrad@byu.edu (Pico Labs) <bruce_conrad@byu.edu>
- Tim Bloomfield (OPS) <tim.bloomfield@ontario.ca>
- Jorge Flores (Entidad) <jorge@entidad.io>
Welcome / Introductions
Announcements
- DIF DIDComm Users Group Meets 2,3, and 4th Mondays: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-usergroup/blob/main/schedule.md
- Oct 10-12 IIW
- HL Member Summit Oct 23 in SF and Tokyo
- New Meeting Link - Check the HL Calendar for updates.
- Bifold regular meetings have resumed after summer break
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
- Release 0.3.3 Bugfix (bug was in the python wrapper)
- Indy Verifiable Date Registry - Ledger Interface https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
- Frameworks:
- Aries-CloudAgent-Python https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python, Meetings: ACA-Pug Meetings, Documentation: https://aca-py.org
- Patch Release 0.10.2 is about to be released. A couple of regression fixes that might impact some deployments.
- 0.10.2-rc0 is available and has been verified.
- SD-JWT support in PR
- Patch Release 0.10.2 is about to be released. A couple of regression fixes that might impact some deployments.
- Aries-Framework-JavaScript https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript, Meetings: Framework JS Meetings
- Version 0.4.0 released! - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/releases/tag/v0.4.0 - HUGE!
- 0.4.1 released
- 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
- Ongoing refactoring
- finished migration to IndyVDR
- Indy CredX up soon
- 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)
- Aries-CloudAgent-Python https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python, Meetings: ACA-Pug Meetings, Documentation: https://aca-py.org
- 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 Mobile Agent React Native, aka Aries Bifold https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native, Meetings: Aries Bifold User Group Meetings
- aries-mediator-service – a DIDComm Mediator in a Box
- Update to use SocketDock?
- aries-endorser-service – an Indy Endorser in a Box (in development)
Discussion Topics
- Aries marketing update - Helen Garneau Alex Metcalf
- New Wiki page going live shortly: New Hyperledger Aries Draft
- Longer description being added to Aries landing page on Hyperledger website, based on above Wiki page content: https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/aries
- We are exploring resource for short Aries introductory animated video
- Join our marketing working group meeting, last Tuesday of every month: Aries Marketing Working Group
- Unqualified DIDs
- DID Rotation
- did:peer:4
- DID Exchange with no DID Document / Signature - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/717
- Community Coordinated Update
- Aries Agent Test Harness update for testing support
- Long Term Support for Aries Projects
- Hitachi Slides
- Main Point Summary
- Stable API note for projects.
- Create LTS Policy (https://hyperledger.github.io/fabric-rfcs/text/0005-lts-release-strategy.html)
- tl;dr - Support each LTS till 9 months after next LTS
- Roadmap for next release (just to next release)
- Set next for completion early next year.
- Goal - Align LTS with AIP
- 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?
- in the Aug 9 call there was talk about EUDI compatibility. Maybe tracking the progress every now and then in these calls? Has there been any discussion about adding SD-JWT and OID4VC stuff to Aries Interop test suite?