2023-10-25 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

Date

Oct 25, 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>

• @Kimmo Hovi (FindyNet) <ext.kimmo.hovi@findy.fi>

• @Daniel Bluhm (Indicio PBC) <daniel@indicio.tech>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

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

    • 0.10.4 Release – patch to address an interop issue with ACA-Py mediator and aries-framework-kotlin

    • 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

    • OWF - shared in OWF list and discord, giving more time for feedback.

    • 0.5 in the works

      • Dropping IndySDK

      • AnonCreds Revocation

      • Dropping Node 16 support (EOL)

  • 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  

  • New draft Aries logos: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G5o24hw3fyBDoB5VdcELv8hjd4IH7cF-JYIcX7hSUt4/edit

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

• Mentorship Review - Patrik

  • mentee: Naian ng.p.ref@mailbox.org

  • Project Plan - aries-vcx based message mediator service

  • Current implementation: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/tree/main/agents/rust/mediator

  • Links: Useful research, analysis and general guide.

• Open Discussion about direction and energy spend

  • Unqualified DIDs?

  • DIDComm v2?

  • OID4VC Protocols?

    • EUDI compatibility

  • Next AIP?

• did:peer:2 Update - Daniel Bluhm

  • Ready to merge: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/peer-did-method-spec/pull/62

• 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

• 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: