2024-5-15 Aries-vcx community call

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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

  • Adjustment of the Aries VCX call to bi-weekly at Thursday 3:00 AM UTC, Wednesday 8:00 PM PDT, Thursday 12:00 PM KST.

  • Absa presence in aries-vcx officially ending by the end of April

    • Overview of repo presented at the 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)

• Overview 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

  • James to update Readme

• Status of usage of Indy SDK in Aries VCX

  • Don't truly know who our consumers are - beyond active contributors. Not being used by George

  • Asking Patrik would be wise

• DID Rotate Implementation

  • Messaging crate - protocol messages - add new types

  • Send message function attached to connection handler

    • Some API to the connection handler to process this request

  • Might need facelift of verkey → DID

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