2020-07-02 Identity WG Implementers Call

Summary

Planned

Project updates
SOIP Presentation – Oliver Terbu
- Slides

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

Jul 2, 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)
@Daniel Bachenheimer
@John Callahan (Veridium) <jcallahan@veridiumid.com>
@Marvin Berstecher (esatus AG) <m.berstecher@esatus.com>

Announcements

SSI Covid-19 group (http://fightthevirus.world)
Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org)
- Wiki https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation
- Whitepaper (https://trustoverip.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2020/05/toip_introduction_050520.pdf)
Sovrin Steward Council
- A new Steward Council is operational and creating new work streams to support the Sovrin ledger.
- Steward Council Charter (
  )
Maintainers: make sure your repos follow the new common structure
- Common Repo structure

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

Main Identity WG
- Meeting notes
- Hyperledger Cactus Identity
  - Connects data models between chains; prevents vendor lock-in
  - How to attest identities between various DLTs
  - Related to Sam Smith's Keri project:
    - Webinar: https://ssimeetup.org/key-event-receipt-infrastructure-keri-secure-identifier-overlay-internet-sam-smith-webinar-58
    - Whitepaper: https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/KERI_WP_2.x.web.pdf
- 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)
  - 2020-06-15 Indy Contributors Call
- 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: 2020-06-17-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
    - Universal Wallet Format
  - WG B: 2020-06-17-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
    - Aries Storage - Andrew Whitehead
    - OOB Reuse
    - Credential Issue Replacement_ID
- Aries Protocol Test Suite - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-protocol-test-suite
- Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-agent-test-harness
  - BC Gov has a $25K CDN bounty for adding a backchannel integration with Aries Framework .NET
    - https://digital.gov.bc.ca/marketplace/opportunities/code-with-us/d359da07-d8e2-48eb-89bc-35f9f04aa09c
- 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
- Meeting Agendas and Notes
- Presentations
- Discussed:
  - Enhanced Privacy ID from Bilinear Paring (https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/095.pdf)
  - WASM Pr for BBS+ signatures
  - Non-revocation range tree RFC
  - Cryptographic accumulators
Trust Over IP Foundation
- Announcement from the Linux Foundation https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/2020/05/cross-industry-coalition-advances-digital-trust-standards/
- https://trustoverip.org/
- Technical Stack Working Group: https://lists.trustoverip.org/g/technical-stack-wg
Sovrin
- New Board of Trustees formed: https://sovrin.org/the-sovrin-foundation-announces-formation-of-a-new-board-of-trustees/
- New Steward Council formed
DIF DIDComm Working Group
- WG Rolling Agenda
- Outlining changes that are needed to Aries RFCs.
DIF Interoperability Group
- https://identity.foundation/interop/
- Participation does not require DIF membership
- Discussing operating charter
W3C Standard
- Verifiable Credentials Working Group
- DID Working Group
  - DID Working Group Face-to-Face this week. Expect freeze to standard in May.
Other?