2023-11-16 Aries-vcx community call

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• Alternatively you can simply join the call and we can discuss your questions and concerns  

Announcements:

• Schedule change: starting from today - November 16th 2023, aries-vcx community calls are happening bi-weekly (next meeting on November 30th)

Agenda:

• Start meeting discussion
  
  • Agenda overview and ad-hoc additions ( you can add your discussion your point )
  • Community updates

    • DIF DIDComm Users Group Meets 2,3, and 4th Mondays: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-usergroup/blob/main/schedule.m

  • Heads up: 
    
    • yesterdays November 15th 2023 aries-wg call was interesting! Talk about the future of Aries RFCs, what belongs them and what not going forward.
  • Mentorship updates
    • uniffi aries-vcx wrapper project Project Plan - Aries VCX Next-gen Mobile Wrapper (UniFFI)
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/tree/main/uniffi_aries_vcx
    • Mentee presentation expect on 29th November on Aries-WG call
• Overview of recent work done
  
  • Mediator agent refactoring: variety of PRs (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1061, https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1056, https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1041)
  • Testing: allow running aries_vcx integration tests in parallel https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1057
  • Fix: graceful base64 padding/no-padding decoding https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1055
  • Feature: mediation coordination messages data model https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
  • Onboarding: add readme/examples for did_parser https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1051
  • Cleanup: deleted unused/obscure methods for OOB: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1039
• In review
  
  • did-exchange revival https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1046 of the original PR https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/928
  • repo structure reorg https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1059
    • this is important to reflect what aries-vcx repo represents - and this possible hints eventual renaming the repository itself (not of the particular `aries_vcx` crate)
  • issue/presentation V2 protocols implementaiton
    
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/987
• In progress
  • aries-askar wallet implementation
• Planned
  • separate CIs for non-aries crates in the repo? did_parser, did_document, did_resolver etc.
    
    • could be versioned separately as well
  • changes to did_document - removal of generics
    • also impacts to did_sov crate and 
    • subsequently implementation of did:peer:4 https://identity.foundation/peer-did-method-spec/
  • didcomm v2 POC

•  End meeting discussion
  • potential brainstorming: ?? new repository name ??