2019-09-26 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

Sep 26, 2019 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Announcements

• Hyperledger Global Forum call for proposals closes tomorrow

• Hyperledger Meetup Belgrade

• IIW October 1-3

• Bootcamp Russia: Event Location

• Hyperledger Maintainers Summit: Minneapolis October 8-10

• Aries Workshop/Connectathon December 3-5 in Provo, Utah (details to follow)

• Other Announcements

Working Group Reports

• Main Identity WG

  • TSC conversations going on about how to make more Hyperledger WG more productive. Emphasis on producing a paper which is currently being drafted.

  • Invite to Identity WG Main Call (Vipin Bharathan)

• Hyperledger Indy

  • Indy release this month will not contain view change improvements; delayed until October.

  • Will contain Fully qualified DIDs.

  • Node support for Ubuntu 18.04 - some outstanding items, may be pushed back to October.

  • Aries wallet conversations happening in both Indy and Aries.

• Indy Semantics WG

• Hyperledger Aries

  • Architecture of the Aries wallet

  • Testing Framework Importance

  • DID Exchange Protocol

  • Decorator Versions

• Hyperledger Ursa

  • September 0.2.0

    • ZKP / ZKLang improvements

    • Debian packages

    • Refactor internal plumbing for anoncreds 2.0, shouldn't impact external interfaces

    • Refactor multi-signature BLS in addition to aggregated signature

• Sovrin Network updates and extensions

  • Builder Net and Staging Net are upgraded to Indy Node 1.9.2. Main Net should be upgraded soon.

• Sovrin Governance Frameworks and Trust Architecture

  • Transaction Author Agreement with Data Processor Addendum ready for public review, and expected to be approved late-October

• W3C Verifiable Credentials and DID updates

  • Working group kick-off at TPAC in Japan

  • Goal is to have a "feature complete" specification by spring 2020.

• Interop and External updates (@Dmitri Zagidulin) 

  • Encrypted Data Vaults: final draft of the RWoT9 Encrypted Data Vaults paper - aiming for interop between Identity Hubs / EDVs / Solid pods etc.

  • Solid project: Proposal to support/interop with DIDs put forth over at: https://github.com/solid/identity-panel/issues/1

• Rebooting Web of Trust (@Daniel Hardman)

  • Well attended with lots of energy.

  • https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot9-prague

  • Alice attempts abuse of verifiable credentials

  • ZKP Safety

Open Discussion (Future Topics)

• The future of Indy

  • Indy Node will continue

  • Indy-SDK will be superseded by Aries libraries

  • Indy-Resolver-Aries will allow Aries to connect to Indy

• Progress on Aries, including timelines.

  • Architecture discussions are proceeding

    • Would like to lift much of indy-sdk to Aries, splitting into components, changing threading model, etc.

    • This is taking longer than expected, but is yielding useful results.

  • Moving from indy-connection protocol to aries-did-exchange protocol, hopefully in 2019

• Attributes of a DID: what is an "alternative DID"? What is the trust model?

  • Expect lots of discussion at IIW about the validity of an alternative DID

• Expectations for the future of this Identity Implementors call

  • Can we remove the meeting and call updates from the Indy and Aries calls?

  • We should reduce the scope of meeting updates in the other calls, but there still might be some useful updates specific to those calls.

  • Plans for next call (October 10)

    • Some will be at the Maintainers Summit, but we'll hold the call anyway.

Next Meeting Topics

• Review of IIW

• Encourage people to share their IIW demo (Evernym and Sovrin Foundation)

Future Topics

• Kiva demo (Cam)

• Roadmap coordination between Indy, Aries and Ursa

Action items

Call Recording