2020-07-16 Identity WG Implementers Call

The call takes place over Zoom here https://zoom.us/j/244779296 

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

Jul 16, 2020 4PM UTC, 9AM PDT, 10AM MDT, 12AM EDT

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• Name (Organization) <email>

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

• @Lynn Gray Bendixsen (Sovrin Foundation and Indicio) <lynn@sovrin.org>

• @Daniel Bachenheimer (Accenture) daniel.bachenheimer@accenture.com

• @Sam Curren (Indicio.tech) <sam@indicio.tech>

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

• @Marvin Berstecher (esatus AG) <m.berstecher@esatus.com>

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

• Sovrin Technical Governance Board – seeking nominees

• 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) 

• DIF Interop WG Charter Draft 

• Get Well card for John Jordan https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_kp34wZs=/

• 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)

    • 2020-07-07 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:  2020-07-15-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)

      • Human Colossus Foundation 

        • https://humancolossus.foundation/technology

        • Working demo: https://argo.colossi.network

    • WG B:  2020-07-15-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

  • 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

  • https://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

  • ToIP Interoperability Profile:   main artifact 

  • ToIP Working Groups:

    • Governance Stack

    • Technical Stack 

    • Utility Foundry

    • Ecosystem Foundry

    • Decentralized Semantics

    • Concepts and Terminology 

• Sovrin

  • New Board of Trustees formed:  https://sovrin.org/the-sovrin-foundation-announces-formation-of-a-new-board-of-trustees/

  • New Steward Council formed

  • Seeking Technical Governance Board nominees

  • Network is healthy with near 100% uptime

• DIF DIDComm Working Group

  • WG Rolling Agenda 

  • Zero Round Trip (0RTT)

  • 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?