2020-02-27 Identity WG Implementers Call

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.

Feb 27, 2020 4PM UTC, 9AM PDT, 10AM MDT, 12AM EDT

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• Name (Organization) <email>

• @Daniel Bluhm (Sovrin Foundation) <daniel.bluhm@sovrin.org>

• @Matt Raffel (Kiva) <mattr@kiva.org>

• @Daniel Bachenheimer (Acccenture) <daniel.bachenheimer@accenture.com>

• Venu Reddy (Tata Consultancy Services)

• Bruce Conrad (Pico Labs) <bruce_conrad@byu.edu>

• @kellycooper.2ds

• @Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

• @Sam Curren

• @Stephen Curran

• Adam Burdett

• @Kamlesh Nagware

• @Nathan George

• Roland Aersourete

• Craig Allwardt

• Hyperledger Global Forum, March 3-6, (https://bit.ly/32vUF9y)

• Internet Identity Workshop, April 28-30, (https://internetidentityworkshop.com)

• Main Identity WG

  • Last meeting

  • Next meeting: February 5 with Kim Cameron

    • 2020-02-05 meeting notes with Kim Cameron's slides

  • Discussed new events in India

• Hyperledger Indy

  • Contributors Meeting

    • Collabortation on CI / CD, Indy-Aries-VDR, and W3C Rich Schemas

    • Indy credx (VC based on ZKP)

    • Aries credx (across multiple implementations)

    • Aries KMS

    • Notes and recording

  • Indy Node

    • February: No release, but published a tool for detecting ZMQ network problems and a troubleshooting guide.

  • Indy SDK

    • February: 1.15.0: Bug fixes and new features in LibVCX (Connection Redirect and Reject Proof)

  • 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:

    • Meeting Agenda & Notes:  Aries Working Group

    • WG A: Collaboration on Rich Schemas, shared libraries, and CI / CD. meeting notes 2020-02-26-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)

    • WG B: meeting notes 2020-02-12-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon) 

      • Out of band protocol RFC forthcoming.  

    • 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 - Various improvements including Transaction Author Agreement support for Indy ledgers requiring it

  • Aries Protocol Test Suite

    • Issue Credential and Present Proof tests done and ready for testing.

  • Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)

    • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead)  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr

      • Remaining work: Design doc, FFI, testing, CI / CD

      • As an Aries interface becomes standardized, will add that API layer

    • indy-credx / aries-credx

      • https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs

      • https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx

    • Aries-Shared-Util

      • Pack / Unpack

      • Not started yet

    • Aries-KMS

      • Mike working on documentation and architecture as an Aries RFC (KMS architecture) and Ursa RFC (API)

      • Mike and Cam's aries-core-rs → aries-kms-mayaguez
        https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-kms-rs

      • Indy wallet crate might move to start another aries-kms implementation → aries-kms-vostok

  • 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

  • WG Rolling Agenda 

  • 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?