2020-03-26 Identity WG Implementers Call

Summary

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

Mar 26, 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>

• Cam Parra (Kiva) <camilop@kiva.org>

• @Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>

• @Echo Harker (Evernym) <echo.harker@evernym.com>

Announcements

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

• SSI Meetup: "How to Avoid Another Identity Tragedy with SSI" by Christopher Allen

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

• Main Identity WG

  • Meeting notes

  • Video recording posted from March 18: Known Traveler Digital Identity

• Hyperledger Indy

  • Contributors Meeting

    • Specific case of troubleshooting an Indy network

    • Notes and recording

  • Indy Node

    • March: delayed until April to use the new Ursa.

    • April: New Ursa, including better hashing. Rich schemas objects. Bug fixes. Also a statically linked ZMQ tool.

    • Slowing release cadence to every-other month-ish.

  • Indy SDK

    • March: 1.14.4: Bug fixes and new features in LibVCX (Connection Redirect and Reject Proof)

    • Smaller releases because of focus on Aries Shared libraries.

  • Indy Catalyst

    • https://github.com/bcgov/indy-catalyst

    • Moving to Aries as the 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:

      • Last meeting: Detailed work update.

      • Next meetings: Formal verification (April 8), IoT best practices (April 22)

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

      • Mediator cloud agents

      • DIDExchange

    • 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

  • Tools

    • Aries Protocol Test Suite

    • Aries Toolbox

  • 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

      • Integrating into LibIndy in a separate branch, goal is to release in April/May

    • indy-credx / aries-credx

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

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

      • Ran a branch of ACAPy with Aries Credx instead of LibIndy

    • Aries-Shared-Util

      • Pack / Unpack

      • Not started yet

    • Aries-KMS

      • Mike's presentation in Aries WG A

      • 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

  • 0.4.0 scheduled for late March

    • Hash to curve

    • Updates to AMCL wrapper

  • Presentations

• Sovrin

  • Status of the network is good, even though the Sovrin Foundation is going through a transition.

• 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?