2020-09-10 Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

Connection Info

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

Date

Aug 27, 2020 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>

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

Announcements

• Sep 10:  Core public utility technologies for a “Next Generation” Internet

  https://humancolossus.foundation/blog/invitation-core-public-utility-technologies-for-a-next-generation-internet

  Thursday, September 10 th @ 9am US PT / 6pm CET
  Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/2157245727 (Password: 1234)

• Sep 16:  Trinsic SSI Dev Seminar, September 16, key speakers:  Tomislav, Nathan George, Stephen Curran)

• Oct 20-22:  Internet Identity Workshop (IIW -- to be held online) 

• New Canadian Standard for Digital Trust and Identity (https://ciostrategycouncil.com/2020/09/cio-strategy-council-announces-new-national-standard-for-digital-trust-and-identity/)

• Central repo for meeting slides (?):  

  

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

• Main Identity WG

  • Meeting Notes:  2020-08-19

  • Presentation on TrustID by Maria Teresa Nieto Galan. Blockchain Specialist at Telefónica. (video available), 

    • Docs:  https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/TrustID

  • Discussion on:  DIDs, decentralized authentication, user custody of keys, interoperability 

• Hyperledger Indy

  • Code Management Updates

    • Migrate Jira to Github issues

    • Moving from Jenkins to GitHub actions

    • Revocation 2.0 (target:  available Summer 2020) – It's in the code, has it officially launched?

  • Contributors Meeting

    • 2020-09-01 Indy Contributors Call - CANCELLED

    • Indy Interop-athon:  Agenda (with links to meeting notes)

  • Indy Node

    • Pending release:  as soon as possible (date TBD) 

    • Replacing Indy Crypto with Ursa .

    • Discussed "rich schema" objects

    • Planning for Ubuntu 20.04 - other dependencies - Jira Issue

  • Indy SDK

    • Indy VDR into LibIndy

    • Indy Credx into LibIndy

  • Indy/Aries Shared Libraries

    • Aries Shared:

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

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

      • indy-shared-rs - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-shared-rs

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

      • Aries Secure Storage initiatives

  • 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:  2020-09-09-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)

      • Summary of Indy Interop-athon (@Stephen Curran)

      • Aries Architecture – Open Discussion  (@Robert Mitwicki)

    • WG B:  2020-09-09-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

      • DirectTrust TIM+ (Trusted Instant Messaging Plus) ANSI-Consensus Body and Hackathon. (Vince Albanese)

        • https://github.com/DirectStandards

        • Direct Patient Address. looks like an email address

      • Indy-Interopathon summary

      • RFC's & PR's

        • PR 532 - Status Update on community coordinated type transition.

        • RFC 430

        • Email ownership Governance Framework (draft)

  • Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)

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

      • Release 0.5.4 done - Release Notes

        • simplification of revocation handling

        • simplification in the controller space

    • 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 Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)

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

      • Verifiable Data Registry (VDR; ledger)

    • indy-credx / aries-credx (merging)

      • Rust layer that wraps Anoncreds (1.0 currently) 

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

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

    • 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)

    • Aries-Framework-Go #aries-go

      • Finishing removal of legacy KMS.

      • Controllers now have gomobile bindings. Still need to add bindings for notifications.

      • Investigating BBS+ JSON-LD signatures

      • Investigating DIF attachments in issue credential and present proof protocols (and relevant implementation aspects in the Go framework).

        • Presentation Exchange

        • Credential Manifest

    • Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin (Aries MAX) - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobileagent-xamarin

    • Aries-SDK-Ruby 

      • JSON-LD 1.1 Signatures adding updates

      • Exploring BBS+ Signature support via rust bridge

      • Horcrux gem for ActiveStorage (https://github.com/johncallahan/activestorage-horcrux)

  • Tools

    • Aries Toolbox – converted to a web application by @Robert Mitwicki - repo https://github.com/thclab/aries 

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

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