2019-08-15 Identity WG Implementers Call

Summary

Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom here https://zoom.us/j/232861185

Reminder to the host: we plan to record this call.

Date

Aug 15, 2019 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Announcements

• BC Gov is interested in formally collaborating with groups with working Mobile Agents. Expected signing of MOU by August 6, 2019 

  • From the #aries channel: The folks from the BC gov VON (https://vonx.io) team, would like to share an opportunity with members of open communities to work with us to do some focused collaboration around mobile agent, Aries agents and aries-cloudagent-python interoperability. We have a pilot production service planned for a significant professional accreditation organization within our province coming up in the fall. This pilot has a requirement for mobile agents to be able to hold and offer verifiable credentials issued and verified by services operating instances of aries-cloudagent-python. Details are in this Open Collaboration MOU: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GPZ4p4zM36AN3DcHJ13s_IisSrT4F3S0 

• Other Announcements

Working Group Reports

• Main Identity WG

  • Rehash of the Implementers call and open discussion

• Hyperledger Indy

  • No meeting this week due to scheduling errors, but there will be a US Afternoon call this coming Monday.

  • Next meeting: 2019-08-19 Indy Maintainers Call (new pack/unpack vs old msg pack, 

  • working on a bugfix release between indy-node and indy-sdk by the end of the month

  • view change protocol change

  • Proof of Possession of a Payment Address added

  • Endorsing a 3rd party transaction support

  • For details see the video in Evernym Sprint Demos

• Indy Semantics WG

  • Review of progress on Rich Schemas effort

    • Node code is making good progress, working on strategies for threading models in the SDK

    • indy-resolver POC for a synchronous threading model

    • reviewing performance testing metrics going forward to understand the consequences of any changes

    • Went through data model that Paul, Robert and JanL are working on for consent collection.

• Hyperledger Aries

  • Both working group calls this week

  • Threading model for Aries and how to split it up and back and forth non previous experience

    • About six different takes on how the split will happen, reconciliation and mechanics of making it happen are evolving

  • DIF interop project involvement (the Aries project seems to be the most active on enterprise implementation)

    • Hope to influence credential exchange protocol across multiple projects

  • Discussed DID resolution spec issues

  • What needs to get done before IIW in six weeks (demos and prep needed to advance the community discussion)

• Hyperledger Ursa

  • Working on new ZKP techniques for zmix

  • packaging to make ZMix more consumable (Ubuntu and RedHat packaging)

  • Streamlining things for Anoncreds 2.0

  • 0.2 release "coming soon" (target date to be announced "real soon now")

• Sovrin Network updates and extensions

  • New auth_rules are on Main Net.

  • Transaction Author Agreement is on Builder Net, but not yet on Staging Net or Main Net.

  • Pay attention to Builder Net so you don't get broken when things move to other networks.

  • Documentation Sovrin Token:

    • https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/tree/master/docs/design/004-payment-interface

    • https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/sovrin-sip/tree/master/text/sovrin-tokens

    • https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/token-plugin/tree/master/docs

    • https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/libsovtoken/tree/master/doc

    • https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/tree/master/docs/design/006-cli-plugins

    • https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/tree/master/docs/design/007-cli-payments

    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/features/0075-payment-decorators

• Sovrin Governance Frameworks and Trust Architecture

  • New revision of Transaction Author Agreement with Data Processor Addendum will be discussed in August 28 meeting.

  • New TAA should be more friendly internationally.

• W3C Verifiable Credentials and DID updates

  • VC Data Model specification in its second CR period ending on the 21st

  • Push to send for proposed rec vote after that

  • Lots of work on the test suite, with some  difficulties in the JWT parts of the test suite

  • Implementation guide work now ongoing to have ready at the same time the data model spec goes to vote

  • Effort to wrap up use cases document also underway

  • The  DID specification charter is being voted on to become a standards-track working group – if you org can vote, please support the charter

  • Hope to form the DID WG prior to TPAC in September

  • Proposed charter for DID WG: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-wg-charter/

  • DID Final Community Group Report: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/CGFR/2019-08-10/

• Interop and External updates

  • Michael Herman has a project update

    • DID server project (identity platform based on C# core .NET DNS Server implementation)

      • youtube webcast available soon