2023-09-27 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

• Unqualified DIDs
• Credential Protocols
• AFJ OWF Proposal

Date

27 Sep 2023 (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>
• Tracy Kuhrt (Deactivated) 
• Warren Gallagher (AffinitiQuest) <warren@affinitiquest.io>
• Samuel Rinnetmäki (Findynet) <samuel.rinnetmaki@findy.fi>
• Kimmo Hovi (Findynet) <ext.kimmo.hovi@findy.fi>
• bruce_conrad@byu.edu (Pico Labs) <bruce_conrad@byu.edu>
• Frostyfrog (Indicio) <colton@indicio.tech>
• Tim Bloomfield (OPS) <tim.bloomfield@ontario.ca>
• John Jordan (BCGov) <john.jordan@gov.bc.ca>
• Sean Bohan (Hyperledger Foundation) <sbohan@linuxfoundation.org>
• Karim Stekelenburg (Animo Solutions) <karim@animo.id>
• Jorge Flores (Entidad) (jorge@entidad.io)

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• Oct 10-12 IIW
• HL Member Summit Oct 23 in SF and Tokyo

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
    • Patch Release 0.10.2 is about to be released. A couple of regression fixes that might impact some deployments.
      • 0.10.2 has been released
      • 0.10.3 in process for one more tweak
    • SD-JWT support merged - 0.11 as target
    • DID Rotate in PR (WIP)
  • 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 of pico-engine version 1.3.0 natively use DIDComm v2 (https://github.com/Picolab/pico-engine/blob/master/packages/pico-engine/README.md)
    • replacing ACA-Pico agents (https://github.com/Picolab/aries-cloudagent-pico) which are now deprecated
    • protocols implemented so far: oob invitation, trust-ping, basicmessage (more to be added https://github.com/Picolab/DIDComm-V2)
    • based on the SICPA didcomm NodeJS module
  • Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go, Meetings: aries-framework-go) 
• 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)

Discussion Topics

• Aries marketing update - Helen Garneau Alex Metcalf  
  • Longer description added to Aries landing page on Hyperledger website: https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/aries
  • New Wiki page going live shortly: New Hyperledger Aries Draft
  • We are exploring resource for short Aries introductory animated video
  • Join our marketing working group meeting, last Tuesday of every month (so next Tuesday!): Aries Marketing Working Group
• Patrik: Issue Credential Protocol V2
  • multiple credential formats
  • supporting negotiation of credential types?
• AFJ OWF Proposal
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/discussions/1586
  • Org migrations should be done with a transfer of the repo
    • maintains links & commit history
    • Move is far better than a fork.
  • Should discuss which components would be moved simultaneously
    • Probably at least Bifold and Askar
  • What to do with the RFCs?
  • Interoperability: are .Net and Go implementations still interoperable with the latest RFCs and interop suite?
    • .Net already moved to OWF
  • OWF policy: maintainers are in charge of the repositories and decisions (same as in Hyperledger)
  • AJF would probably be the most mature wallet framework, so OWF would have an incentive to promote and market it
• Unqualified DIDs
  • DID Rotation
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/794
  • did:peer:4
    • https://github.com/decentralized-identity/peer-did-method-spec/pull/61 (pr to method)
    • https://github.com/decentralized-identity/peer-did-method-spec/issues/58 (original post)
  • DID Exchange with no DID Document / Signature - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/717
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/795
  • Community Coordinated Update
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/793
  • Aries Agent Test Harness update for testing support
• Beta v2 mediator with websocket support.
  • https://indicio-tech.github.io/mediator/beta
• DIDComm V2 Demo: https://indicio-tech.github.io/didcomm-demo/ (Github Repo)
• Open Tasks
  • LTS Policy
    • Fabric starting point: (https://hyperledger.github.io/fabric-rfcs/text/0005-lts-release-strategy.html)
• 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?

Action items

Call Recording: