2020-01-30 Identity WG Implementers Call

Summary

• Project updates
• Demo of Aries-Framework-DotNet

Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom here https://zoom.us/j/244779296

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

Date

30 Jan 2020 4PM UTC, 9AM PDT, 10AM MDT, 12AM EDT

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>
• Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>
• Sam Curren (Sovrin Foundation) <sam@sovrin.org>
• Marvin Berstecher (esatus AG) <m.berstecher@esatus.com>
• kellycooper.2ds KellyCooper.2ds@gmail.com
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

Announcements

• Other Announcements?

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

• Main Identity WG
  • Last meeting
  • Next meeting: February 5 with Kim Cameron
• Hyperledger Indy
  • Contributors Meeting
    • Collabortation on CI / CD, Indy-Aries-VDR, and W3C Rich Schemas
    • Notes and recording
  • Indy Node
    • January: 1.12.2 Fixes to View Change
  • Indy SDK
    • January: 1.14.2: Bug fixes
  • Indy Catalyst
    • https://github.com/bcgov/indy-catalyst
    • Will move to Aries instead of Indy: Aries Verifiable Credential Registry
  • Indy Semantics WG
    • ODCA pilots underway
    • The agenda, video, notes, etc. from the HL Indy Semantics WG call: 
• Hyperledger Aries
  • Aries Working Group meetings:
    • WG A: Performance testing for ACA-Py and LibIndy. Notes and recording.
    • WG B: Closing issues, DID Prefix moving to HTTPS, AIP 1.0, Routing Coordination. Notes and recording.
    • Next WG A: Discussing Aries-Framework-Go. Notes and recordings
  • Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
    • Cloud Agent Python
      • Release 0.4.1 is pending

        • This will be synchronously deployed with Streetcred, as both will be making a non-backwards compatible change to align with RFCs.

      • Launch of ACA-Py User Group (ACA-Pug) and #aries-cloudagent-python
    • Static Agent Python - Release 0.7.0 - Working on publishing documentation to Github pages, improving documentation throughout the code, etc.
    • Toolbox - Release soon to lock in plugin to ACA-Py 0.4.0
  • Aries Protocol Test Suite
    • Feature Discovery protocol tests now in test suite thanks to the efforts of Keith Smith
    • Moving on to Issue Credential; first targeting Indy ledger specific tests with the hope of informing design of ledger agnostic tests.
  • Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)
  • Aries Language Frameworks and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
• Hyperledger Ursa
  •  Ursa 0.3.1 release in January
    • Delegate-able credentials
    • Flexible configuration options
  • ZMix 0.1.0 expected in January
    • Ursa and ZMix will be separate releases. ZMix is the proving code, and Ursa is everything else.Ursa 0.3.1 release in January.
  • More language wrappers coming.
• Sovrin
  • Network updates and extensions
  • Sovrin Governance Frameworks and Trust Architecture
    • Blog post on TAA: https://sovrin.org/how-the-recent-approval-of-the-sovrin-governance-framework-v2-affects-transaction-authors/
    • TAA expected to be enforced in February.
  • Sovrin Guardianship Working Group:

    • First meetings:

      • Friday, 31 January Americas & EMEA meeting @08:30 PST (UTC - 8) = 11:30 EST (UTC -5) = 17:30 CET (UTC +1) = 03:30 (Saturday) Sydney NSW (UTC+11)

        • Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/340998214 Meeting ID: 340 998 214

      • Friday, 31 January APAC meeting @12:00 Sydney NSW (UTC +11) = 17:00 (Thursday) PST (UTC - 8) = 20:00 (Thursday) EST (UTC -5) = 02:00 (Thursday) CET (UTC +1)

        • Zoom link: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/987678751 Meeting ID: 987-678-751

    • https://sovrin.org/library/guardianship-white-paper/

• DIF DIDComm Working Group
  • Outlining changes that are needed to Aries RFCs.
• W3C Standards
  • Verifiable Credentials Working Group
  • DID Working Group
    • DID Working Group Face-to-Face this week. Expect freeze to standard in May.
• Other?

Open Discussion

• GPDR:
  • https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/document.cfm?doc_id=47741
• Transitioning DID Prefix to HTTP: 
  

  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/blob/master/features/0348-transition-msg-type-to-https/README.md

• Demo of aries-framework-dotnet Tomislav Markovski
• Should this meeting move from bi-weekly to monthly? Richard Esplin
  • Steve is happy to continue hosting it bi-weekly.

Next Meeting Topics

Future Topics

• Roadmap coordination between Indy, Aries and Ursa
• Progress of aries-framework-ruby John Callahan
• The ACA-Py REST API

Action items

Call Recording