2024-04-10 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

• Service Endpoints
• Mediation

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/93803916577?pwd=UWdLSTJ2b0kvZTRyc1hZTUdQQ3ZFZz09

Recording: 

Date

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

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Attendees

• Sam Curren  (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
• Warren Gallagher (AffinitiQuest) <warren@affinitiquest.io>
• James Ebert (Instnt) <james@instnt.org>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• IIW - April 16-18 - Aries call?

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
  • Aries Askar secure storage - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-askar
  • AnonCreds Rust - https://github.com/hyperledger/anoncreds-rs
  • Shared Rust Library/CredX (AnonCreds) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-shared-rs - being replaced by AnonCreds Rust
• Frameworks:
  • Aries Cloud Agent Python https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python, Meetings: ACA-Pug Meetings, Documentation: https://aca-py.org
  • Credo https://github.com/openwallet-foundation/credo-ts, Meetings: Credo Meetings
  • Aries VCX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx, Meetings: Aries-VCX Meetings
  • 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)
• Mobile:
  • Bifold Wallet -- https://github.com/openwallet-foundation/bifold-wallet
• aries-mediator-service – a DIDComm Mediator in a Box
• aries-endorser-service – an Indy Endorser in a Box (in development)
• Aries Akrida - Load Testing DIDComm based protocols

Discussion Topics

• DIDCommMessaging(?) Service endpoint – why so much confusion ?
  • Issue in Credo: https://github.com/openwallet-foundation/credo-ts/issues/1789
  • Issue in ACA-Py: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python/issues/2864
  • Spec Issue: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/peer-did-method-spec/issues/64
  • What is right?
    • DIDComm Specs:
      • v1: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/blob/main/features/0067-didcomm-diddoc-conventions/README.md#service-conventions
      • v2: https://identity.foundation/didcomm-messaging/spec/#service-endpoint
• Mediation Issue - Daniel Bluhm
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python/issues/2851
• Also, MessagePickup/Delivery during Live Mode Mediation
• Removing Indy SDK from ACA-Py – is it time?
• Unqualified DIDs Update
  • Where are we?

Other Business

Future Topics

Action items

Call Recording: