2023-09-19 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting

Summary:

Topics:

• Release 0.10.2 Status
• SD-JWTs in ACA-Py
• Status of AnonCreds RS in ACA-Py update
• PRs and Issues - status update
• Community Happenings
• AATH Issue – ACA-Py Tests Failing since 2023.09.01
• Open Discussion

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/98856745538?pwd=VkJROWRxeW43d3hOdnJLemwrS0JKUT09

Call Time: 8:00 Pacific / 17:00 Central Europe

Recordings From the Call:  

Welcome, Introductions and Announcements

• Internet Identity Workshop coming up October 10-12
• Hyperledger Member Summit October 23 in San Francisco and Tokyo

Attendees

• Stephen Curran (BC Gov/Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
• Warren Gallagher (AffinitiQuest) <warren@affinitiquest.io>
• Emiliano Suñé (BC Gov/Quartech) <emiliano.sune@quartech.com>
• Alexandra Walker (Indicio PBC) <alex.walker@indicio.tech>
• Jason Sherman (BC Gov/Quartech) <jason@usingtechnolo.gy>
• Daniel Bluhm (Indicio PBC) <daniel@indicio.tech>
• Char Howland (Indicio PBC) <char@indicio.tech>

Announcements

• ACA-Py documentation: https://aca-py.org

Agenda

• Release 0.10.2 Status
• SD-JWTs in ACA-Py – PR 2487 from Char Howland 
  • Documentation
  • SD-JWT Spec: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-oauth-selective-disclosure-jwt-05
• Update: Hyperledger AnonCreds Rust in ACA-Py
  • Status of AnonCreds RS – has merged in the latest CL Signatures.
    • AnonCreds Version 0.2.0-dev1 has been made available - pending tag and release.
    • Plan is that once available, Daniel to get main merged into the AnonCreds RS branch in ACA-Py.
      • Primarily: Tails file handling on issuing and revoking credentials
• PRs and Issues
  • Still to be done: 
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python/issues/1042 - https message type prefix, https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python/issues/1044 - updated media types
      • Proposed behaviour:
        • Document what is there today: default to old, flags to emit new.
        • Change the default behaviour to emit new (as if the flags were ALWAYS set)
        • Leave the existing flag, but it does nothing.
        • Do NOT add a new flag to allow the old behaviour.
          • Are we sure?
• Community Happenings:
  
  • Relevant Hyperledger Labs proposal from Mike Lodder – Agora – https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/hyperledger-labs.github.io/pull/249
  • DID Peer Progress and Discussion
    • Aries: Introduction of did:peer:4 – a new numalgo
      • Relevant issue: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/peer-did-method-spec/issues/58
      • PR: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/peer-did-method-spec/pull/61
      • Reference implementation: https://github.com/dbluhm/did-peer-4
    • Aries: Introduction of new RFC "rotate-did" for DIDComm Messaging DIDs
      • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/794
• AATH Test Failing – last passed 2023.08.29, first failed 2023.09.01
  • Poetry PR - commit
• Open Discussion
  • Mediation Routing Keys:
    https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python/issues/2357
    https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python/issues/2492
    https://github.com/Indicio-tech/aries-cloudagent-python/pull/153

Upcoming Meeting Topics:

• Discussion Topics:
  
  • Update on ACA-Py Container Scanning
  • Multi-architecture containers
    • Issue with BBS+ package – doesn't support ARM containers – need an update to their CI
    • Solution: A third container published that includes BBS+ package, but is single architecture
    • Others are Askar

Future Topics

Action items