2020-10-08 Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

Connection Info

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

Date

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

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>

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

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

• @Sebastian Bickerle (Main Incubator GmbH / lissi) <sebastian.bickerle@main-incubator.com>

• Nathan George

• Michael Lodder

• Sergey Minaev

• Alex 

Announcements

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

• Central repository for industry meeting slides:  

  

News

• The COVID-19 Credentials Initiative (CCI):  https://medium.com/@cci.2020/the-covid-19-credentials-initiative-cci-b00c1d858ccb 

• The Commons Project:  CommonPass – https://thecommonsproject.org/commonpass

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

• Main Identity WG

  • Meeting Notes:  2020-09-30

    • Recording available

    • Global Architecture for Digital Identity https://www.goodeintelligence.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/An-Introduction-to-GADI_The-Global-Architecture-for-Digital-Identity.pdf

    • www.didalliance.org 

• 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

    • 2020-09-29 Indy Contributors Call

      • Future of LibVCX – Deprecate from Indy and move to Aries

      • 2020-09-17 Special: Planning Next Indy Node Release – new release upcoming for indy-plenum and indy-node

      • Process flow summary

      • Rich Schema Flag

      • BBS+

    • Indy Node

    • Pending:  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

    • Does anyone have a current WG page link?

    • 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:  2020-10-07-A Aries Working Group Call (Europe afternoon)

      • Revocation 2.0 Overview/Discussion – Options and Data Flows - @Stephen Curran

        • Document and Presentation

    • WG B:  2020-10-07-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

      • Zoom meeting adjustment?

        • New Invite with password in place to avoid waiting room?

      • Invite Action Protocol - Daniel Hardman

        • PR 550

      • Universal Wallet Spec

        • current spec

        • Potential Split between Data Model and Interface

        • Adjustments to Data Model for Aries use

        • Inclusion of arbitrary binary data for app specific backup data.

      • Revisit simple request for now() in revocation state proof - Daniel Hardman

      • Closing Game

  • Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)

    • Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)

      • Release 0.5.5 pending

        • More on revocation – making it more robust

        • Initialization via command line parameters, config files (text, yaml) and environment variables.

    • 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

      • New web app repo https://github.com/thclab/aries 

  • Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)

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

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

      • Experimental ACA-Py branch created that can do credential exchange with indy-credx

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

      • Shared features across indy-vdr and indy-credx

      • pack/unpack on Ursa (not libsodium)

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

    • Aries Secure Storage initiatives:

      • Soon to be pubic - from @Andrew Whitehead

      • Askar - (means guard or soldier)

  • Aries Language Frameworks and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)

    • Aries-Framework-Go #aries-go

      • 0.1.4 release notes

      • Mobile (android/iOS) code snippets for using protocols and receiving notifications (Java/Kotlin; Objective-C/Swift). See Go framework mobile agent README.

      • Created repo to handle pluggable go framework components such as Indy VDR: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go-ext

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

    • Aries-SDK-Ruby 

      • Horcrux gem for ActiveStorage (0.0.4)

        • moved to https://github.com/decentralized-identity/activestorage-horcrux

        • refactored to change blob key directly (instead of via Tempfile)

  • 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