2019-10-10 Identity WG Implementers Call

Summary

• Project updates
• Demo of the Agent Toolbox

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

10 Oct 2019 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Announcements

• 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 and Release Plans

• Main Identity WG
  • Working on the whitepaper
  • Discussing additional use cases
  • TSC report delivery approaching
• Hyperledger Indy
  • Contributors Meeting
  • Indy Node
    • Released update 
    • October release: PBFT View Change, Ubuntu 18.04
    • Pull requests for Rich Schema / W3C verifiable credentials
  • Indy SDK
    • Released new version 
    • Migration of key elements to Aries
  • Indy Catalyst
    • https://github.com/bcgov/indy-catalyst
    • Migrating into Hyperledger GitHub org
  • Indy Semantics WG
• Hyperledger Aries
  • New:  Jira backlog for common components 
  • Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
    • Cloud Agent Python - Release 0.3.3, next release to include test suite static connection support 
    • Static Agent Python - Working on release with return routing, other improvements
  • Aries Core Libraries (agent storage, resolvers, comms)
    • Plan for creating repositories for shared libraries:
      
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  • Aries Language Frameworks and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
• Hyperledger Ursa
  • Release of 0.2.0 in September:
    • Annoncreds 2.0, 
    • ZKP  / ZKLang improvements
    • Debian packages
    • Refactor multi-signature BLS in addition to aggregated signature
• Sovrin
  • Network updates and extensions
    • Builder Net upgrade to Indy Node 1.10.0
    • Staging Net upgrade next Monday
  • Sovrin Governance Frameworks and Trust Architecture
    • New version of the Transaction Author Agreement / Data Processor Addendum in public review.
  • Sovrin Meetup tomorrow at 11AM Mountain
• W3C Standards
  • Drummond's slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSuaCI_igQy7H42-ynaaRYySuspY0rBMWjSgmotS56xJmNm19RZFGaPhmCMyJja6A/pub?slide=id.p1
  • Verifiable Credentials Working Group
  • DID Working Group
• Interop and External updates (Dmitri Zagidulin) 
  • Helen's excellent DIDs 101 Non-Technical discussion slides from the CCG call, as mentioned earlier
  • Introduction to Self Sovereign Identity IIW slides by Heather Vescent, Karyl Fowler and Lucas Tétrault
• Rebooting Web of Trust (Daniel Hardman)
• Other?

Open Discussion

• Agent Toolbox demo from IIW (Daniel Bluhm)
  • Related Links: 
    

    https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-toolbox
    https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-cloudagent-python/tree/medici

    
    Relevant RFCs:
    https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/features/0037-present-proof
    https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/features/0036-issue-credential
    https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/features/0023-did-exchange
• Future meeting topics

Next Meeting Topics

• Connect.Me and OIDC SIOP demo from IIW (Tyler Ruff)
• Kiva demo (Cam)
• Review of IIW
• Review of Hyperledger Maintainers Summit

Future Topics

• Picolabs Agent Demo (Bruce expressed interest in sharing recent work)
• Roadmap coordination between Indy, Aries and Ursa

Action items

Call Recording