2024-01-17 Aries Working Group Call

Jan 17, 2024 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

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

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

• @Alexander Sherbakov (DSR Corporation) <alexander.sherbakov@dsr-corporation.com>

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

• @Patrick St-Louis (IDLab/OpSecId) <patrick.st-louis@opsecid.ca>

• @Stephen Curran  (BC Gov/Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>

• Bifold Meeting - Jan 16th (regular Bifold meeting time) Discussion of OWF move.

• Reference implementation of SD-JWT in Rust (contributed by DSR Corporation to OWF labs): https://github.com/openwallet-foundation-labs/sd-jwt-rust, https://crates.io/crates/sd-jwt-rs

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

    • PR merged for caching in Indy VDR of Pool Transactions - Aries Frameworks should be adding that to

    • Release 0.4.0

    • 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

  • Agent-Framework-JavaScript  https://github.com/openwallet-foundation/agent-framework-javascript, Meetings: Framework JS Meetings
    
    

    • Accepted by TAC in OWF, repository has moved. See initial announcement here: https://github.com/openwallet-foundation/agent-framework-javascript/discussions/1586#discussioncomment-7815973

    • Looking for a new name, feel free to weigh in here: https://github.com/openwallet-foundation/agent-framework-javascript/discussions/1668

    • 0.5 in the works

      • Dropping IndySDK

      • AnonCreds Revocation

      • Dropping Node 16 support (EOL)

    • Continuing working on SD-JWT and OpenID4VC support

    • Started work on W3C issuance and verification of AnonCreds credentials

    • PR open for did:peer:4 support and did rotate protocol

  • 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

  • Added module support for different Issuer and Verifiers

• Annual Report – Draft Aries Report, TOC Annual Report Requirements

• Unqualified DIDs CCU

  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/blob/main/features/0793-unqualfied-dids-transition/README.md

• AnonCreds in W3C format – Overview of the approach for ACA-Py and AFJ

• ACA-Py /  Traceability / VC-API - Patrik St. Louis

• Open Discussion

• State of the Aries

  • What have we accomplished

  • What is on deck for next year?

• 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?