2024-4-4 Aries-vcx community call

Note:

• If you are planning on attending aries-vcx call, feel free login to wiki and update the agenda below to include your discussion topic / question
• Alternatively you can simply join the call and we can discuss your questions and concerns  

Reminders

• Community updates

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

Recording

Agenda:

• Start meeting discussion
  
  • Agenda overview and ad-hoc additions ( you can add your discussion your point )
• Announcements
  
  • Absa presence in aries-vcx officially ending by the end of April
    • Overview of repo presented on yesterday's AriesWG call 2024-04-03 Aries Working Group Call
  • Vision for future:
    • DF.RS
    • Go-to user friendly, efficient, feature complete implementation of DidCore - DID, DidDocuments. Become `url` crate of DIDs and DidDocuments
    • Didcomm V2
    • Mediator with web sockets
    • Mediation client
    • New credential types
    • ?Mobile/Browser secure storage options?
  • Cool blogpost from our ex-mentee and current co-maintainer Naian
    
    • https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/hyperledger-mentorship-spotlight-aries-vcx-based-message-mediator
• Overview of recent work done
  
  • did:peer:4  integration and improvements https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1167
  • separated aries-vcx-wallet from aries-vcx-core https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1157
  • changed approach for constructing and modifying Did Documents https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1164
  • containerised and packaged mediator [docker, docker-compose] (#1139)
• Overivew of work in progress
  • Extraction of aries-ledger crate from aries-vcx-core https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1172
  • New contributor! Using DID type in Messages crate: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1171
  • Mediator client draft https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1169
  • Improve representation + de/serialization of key within Did Document https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/pull/1170
• Architecture overview
  
  • Updated DidcommFramework.RS sketch