2023-12-06 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

Recording: https://youtu.be/sq5_kFjlURE

Date

Dec 6, 2023 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

Attendees                 

• @Sam Curren  (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>

• @Warren Gallagher (AffinitiQuest) <warren@affinitiquest.io>

• @bruce_conrad@byu.edu (Pico Labs) <picolabs@sanbachs.com>

• @Jorge Flores (Entidad) <jorge@entidad.io>

• @Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

• @Frostyfrog (Indicio) <colton@indicio.tech>

• @Ariel Gentile (2060.io) <a@2060.io>

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

    • 0.10.5 Adds an important JSON-LD VC verification update

    • 0.11.0 has a full set of updates (includes 0.10.5 fix)

    • Addition of AnonCreds Rust library into ACA-Py now in main, using new wallet-type "askar-anoncreds"

      • Moving to ledger agnostic AnonCreds

    • Traction Sandbox now available - https://traction-sandbox-tenant-ui.apps.silver.devops.gov.bc.ca

      • Workshop Tutorial for using Traction, AnonCreds and Aries 

      • Repo - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-acapy-controllers/tree/main/TractionIssuanceDemo

  • 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

    • aries-vcx as repository now contains 2 project families:

      • aries

      • didcore

  • 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)

• Aries Akrida - Load Testing DIDComm based protocols

  • AFJ 0.4.x upgrade in progress

  • Prepping for transition to Hyperledger (expected move later this week)

  • Shifting to TypeScript from Javascript

Discussion Topics

• Aries marketing update - @Helen Garneau @Alex Metcalf  

  • Logo complete

  • Marketing working group meeting yesterday

  • Next meeting is last Tuesday of January: Aries Marketing Working Group

  • Q1 Interop event? - Discussion next week

• RPC / App attestation - Stephen

  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/804

• Unqualified DIDs Checkin

  • Next Goal - Software Support (2023-12-17)

  • Issues? 

• RFC Review

  • 0795 - Add DID rotation signature to 0023

  • 0794 - DID Rotate Protocol

  • 0793 - Unqualified DID Community Coordinated Update

  • 0798 - Fix Type in OCA RFC

  • 0799 - LTS

  • 0801 - Update unresolved questions in please ack

• Open Discussion

Other Business

Future Topics

• Next Week - Mentee Demo on VCX/Traction

• State of AF-GO - New Maintainers or Archive?

• in Q1, projects are asked to do an annual report, review past year, plans for next year

  • More back and forth conversation. Multiple members need to attend presentation.

• 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

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