2020-02-13 Identity WG Implementers Call

Summary

• Project updates
• Discussion of Aries-Framework-Ruby

Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom here https://zoom.us/j/244779296 (this is the meeting invite that worked as of 2/13/2020 https://zoom.us/j/244779296)

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

Date

13 Feb 2020 4PM UTC, 9AM PDT, 10AM MDT, 12AM EDT

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
• John Callahan (Veridium) <jcallahan@veridiumid.com>
• Matt Raffel (kiva) <mattr@kiva.org>
• Bobbi Muscara Bobbi Muscara (Ledger Academy) bobbi@ledgeracademy.com
• Nathan George (Sovrin Foundation) <nathan@sovrin.org>
• Daniel Bluhm (Sovrin Foundation) <daniel.bluhm@sovrin.org>
• @Kamlesh Nagware (Snapper Future Tech)  <kamlesh.nagware@snapperfuturetech.com>

Announcements

• Other Announcements?
• Call to discuss techniques for supporting an Indy Network: Tuesday, February 25 at 3PM UTC, Agenda

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

• Main Identity WG
  • Last meeting
  • Next meeting: February 5 with Kim Cameron
    • 2020-02-05 meeting notes with Kim Cameron's slides
• 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
    • Transaction Author Agreement additions are on builder net
  • 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: no call this week
    • WG B: meeting notes 2020-02-12-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon) 
    • 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 0.7.1 - Patch to accept base64url encoded values with or without padding
    • Toolbox - BasicMessage administrative protocol added (once the PR is accepted) with corresponding update to the ACA-Py plugin for the toolbox.
      
      • Protocol details in the docs here.
  • Aries Protocol Test Suite
    • Issue Credential and Present Proof tests done and ready for testing.
  • Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)
  • Aries Language Frameworks and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
• Hyperledger Ursa
  •  Ursa 0.3.2 release in February
    • Added key exchange methods (drop in replacement)
    • Anonymous Credentials
  • RFC submitted for Crypto Construction Language (similar to bitcoin script) 
  • 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
  • Looking for volunteers to participate in new Sovrin task forces:
    • Sovrin Governance Framework Meeting link for new Task Force report:  
  • 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

• Progress of aries-framework-ruby John Callahan
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-sdk-ruby
  • https://github.com/johncallahan/aries-rails-docker
  • Working on ActiveWallet (long-term) concept

Next Meeting Topics

Future Topics

• Roadmap coordination between Indy, Aries and Ursa
• The ACA-Py REST API

Action items

Call Recording