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

15 Aug 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

Topics and Demos

Report from Blackhat - Steve McCown

• Hack of Whatsapp allowed misattribution of postings—an identity use case. Didn't break the encryption, but messed with the protocol. Aries protocols need to avoid the same types of mistakes.
  • https://research.checkpoint.com/black-hat-2019-whatsapp-protocol-decryption-for-chat-manipulation-and-more/

Performance testing in Indy - Vladimir Shishkin (Evernym)

• Benchmark Summary 2019: 
• Load test scripts: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/tree/master/scripts/performance
• Scripts for wallet testing: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/blob/master/libindy/benches/wallet.rs
• Scripts for encryption performance testing: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/blob/master/libindy/tests/crypto.rs#L730
• Scripts for chaos testing: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-test-automation/

GitLab CI/CD Migration update - Former user (Deleted)

• GitLab CI research: https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2168
• Actively working on the Indy SDK CI pipeline. Goal is to have something functional by the end of August.

Open Discussion (Future Topics)

Next Meeting Topics

Future Topics

• Roadmap coordination between projects?

Action items

Call Recording