2019-09-26 Identity WG Implementers Call

Summary

• Project updates
• The future of Indy and progress on Aries
• Attributes of a DID
• Planning future calls

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

26 Sep 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