2020-05-21 Identity WG Implementers Call

Summary

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

May 21, 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)

• @Nathan George (Kiva) <nathang@kiva.org>

• @Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>

• Gary D. DeGruccio <gddg57@ptd.net>

• @Mike Lodder

• @Clive Boulton

• @Sam Curren

• Anshu Jain <Anshu.Jain.OBA@said.oxford.edu>

Announcements

• New:  SSI Covid-19 group (http://fightthevirus.world) 

• Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org) 

  • Launch Event 20 May 2020 (recording:  https://zoom.us/rec/share/xdV6BO2vzV9Jf9bNw2zQW_dmJ9_mT6a81HUX_aJZmEpcDgqe7Y4AiYjdSKXy_FCT)

  • Whitepaper (https://trustoverip.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2020/05/toip_introduction_050520.pdf) 

• Sovrin Steward Council

  • All Steward Call 21 May 2020 @ 10am MT (https://zoom.us/j/8013587728) 

  • Steward Council Charter (

    
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• Maintainers: make sure your repos follow the new common structure

  • Common Repo structure

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

• Main Identity WG

  • Meeting notes

  • Covid-19 discussion

  • Trust Over IP presentation and discussion in the next meeting

  • Vipin presentation on various Identity app approaches from other countries

• Hyperledger Indy

  • Code Management Updates

    • Migrate Jira to Github issues

    • Moving from Jenkins to GitHub actions

    • Revocation 2.0 

  • Contributors Meeting

    • Revocation 2.0 (target:  available Summer 2020)

    • Notes and recording

  • Indy Node

    • June: 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

    • No releases planned

  • Indy Catalyst

    • Continued evolution - work on non-Aries elements - Solr indexing... 

    • https://github.com/bcgov/aries-vcr

  • 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: 2020-05-20-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)

      • Chained credentials (RFC 104) discussion (Daniel Hardman)

    • WG B: 2020-05-20-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

      • Next Wed:  Connectionless Credential Issuance (Tomislav)

    • Discussion DID Comm activities at DIF

  • Aries Protocol Test Suite - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-protocol-test-suite

  • Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-agent-test-harness

  • Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)

    • Aries Cloud Agent Python - ACA-Py User Group (ACA-Pug) Bi-weekly meetings

      • Release 0.5.1                   

      • Revocation based on anoncreds 1.0 has been merged into master and will be in the next release.

    • 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

      • Verifiable Data Registry (VDR; ledger) 

      • Remaining work: Design doc

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

    • indy-credx / aries-credx

      • Rust layer that wraps Anoncreds (1.0 currently) 

      • 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

  • No call - will push predicates, never put into Indy and made available to Aries. Will add full set or more predicates than > = . Working on Aries wallet and using the Ursa capabilities for that. 

• Sovrin

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

  • First half of meeting update on Sovrin Foundation and reports from committees. Second half on the Covid Governance workstream committees. 

  • Sovrin transition - Riley on the transition team - See Riley draft presentation slides below >>

• DIF DIDComm Working Group

  • WG Rolling Agenda 

  • Outlining changes that are needed to Aries RFCs.

• W3C Standard

  • Verifiable Credentials Working Group

  • DID Working Group

    • DID Working Group Face-to-Face this week. Expect freeze to standard in May.

• Other?