2023-11-16 Aries-vcx community call

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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 ??