Summary:

Credential Protocols
Unqualified DIDs
DID Rotation Signatures

Date

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

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Attendees

Sam Curren (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
Warren Gallagher (AffinitiQuest)<warren@affinitiquest.io>
Alex Metcalf (BC Gov) <alex.metcalf@gov.bc.ca>
bruce_conrad@byu.edu (Pico Labs) <picolabs@sanbachs.com>
Kim Ebert (Indicio) <kim@indicio.tech>
Kimmo Hovi (Findynet) <ext.kimmo.hovi@findy.fi>
Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

Oct 10-12 IIW
- No Aries call next week!
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
  - 0.10.3 has been released - patch release on 0.10.2 that adds a migration script to enable upgrading very old issuers (~0.5.2) that use revocation.
  - 0.11 on deck with did rotate and did:peer:4
- 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
    - JFF Plugfest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVNLJlFUfPM
      - Needs DIDComm v2 issuers and verifiers needed for next round.
- Aries VCX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx, Meetings: Aries-VCX Meetings
  - Release 0.59.1 https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/releases/tag/0.56.0
  - Ongoing refactoring
  - finished migration to IndyVDR
  - Indy CredX up soon
  - issue and present v2 on deck
- 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?
- https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/796
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)
  - Browser Resolver Demo
- 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://demo.didcomm.org/ (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?

Summary:

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Welcome / Introductions

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Discussion Topics

Other Business

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