2020-11-5 Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

Today's Call:

Review working group updates

Presenter: Paul Knowles (Overlays Data Capture Architecture)

Presentation Slides Below

Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom: https://zoom.us/my/hyperledger.community.3?pwd=UE90WHhEaHRqOGEyMkV3cldKa2d2dz09

Date

05 Nov 2020 4PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

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Attendees

Name (Organization) <email>
Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
Alexander Jonsson (Laniakea Health) <alex@laniakeahealth.com>
Daniel Bachenheimer (Accenture) <daniel.bachenheimer@accenture.com>
Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
Charles Lanahan (Trustscience Inc.) <charles.lanahan@trustscience.com>
Himangshu Pan

Announcements

IIW Proceedings https://internetidentityworkshop.com/past-workshops/

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

Main Identity WG
- Meeting Notes: 2020-10-28
  - Overlays Capture Architecture
    - Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA
    - Blinding Identity Taxonomy (BIT)
  - Recording available

Hyperledger Indy
- Contributors Meeting
  - 2020-10-27 Indy Contributors Call
    - Replacing indy-crypto with ursa-crypto
    - Implementing the Rich Schema feature flag (Pull Request found here)
    - CI/CD Progress being made on indy-node
    - Upcoming release (mid November?)
    - iOS Wrapper
      - Dropping 32-bit support
      - Deployment – developers build themselves or prebuilt cocoa pod
  - Pending: Planning for Ubuntu 20.04 - other dependencies - Jira Issue
- Indy SDK
  - Indy VDR into LibIndy
  - Indy Credx into LibIndy
- Indy DID:Method Spec-ing Meeting - weekly, Tuesday 7AM Pacific - Indy DID Method Specification
- 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
    - areis-askar - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/aries-askar

Hyperledger Aries
- Aries Working Group meetings:
  - Meeting Agenda & Notes: Aries Working Group
  - WG A: 2020-11-04-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
    - IIW Summary (Hot topics and feedback)
    - KERI - Direct mode demo based on keriox - Plans for integration with aca-py
    - https://keri.one
  - WG B: 2020-11-04-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
    - BBS+ in Aries Framework Go
    - Issue 560 - RFC 0453 - Support credential gallery images
    - AIP Next?
      - Out Of Band
    - Closing Game
      - PR 557 - Feature Discovery Update
      - PR 558 - Clarify Detatched JWS rules
- Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
  - Release 0.5.6 is out.
  - Contributions in progress:
    - Multi-Tenant Agent - from Lukas Müller, SICPA and collaborators
    - Java Clients
    - Mediator configuration
  - 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
  - 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 Secure Storage initiatives:
    - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/aries-askar
- Aries Language Frameworks and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
  - Aries-Framework-Go #aries-go
    - BBS+ Verifiable Credentials implemented using pure Go. Example.
      - Next tasks: interop testing against Mattr implementation and selective disclosure capabilities.
    - Working on adding remote encrypted storage capability - with a default implementation of DIF Secure Data Storage - Encrypted Data Vaults.
    - Created repo to handle pluggable go framework components such as Indy VDR: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go-ext
      - MySQL and CouchDB components moved to ext repo.
  - 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

Hyperledger Ursa
- Homepage: Hyperledger Ursa (EOL)
- 2020-10-28 Meeting Agenda
  - Brent: discussion of ZKP system properties that are desired.
  - Paul and Micha: questions about Ursa
    1. Signature questions related to hardware
  - Mike: questions about accumulators
  - Mike: has added a bunch of issues to hopefully spur contribution
  - Discussion of PQC:
    1. Dual lattices

Trust Over IP Foundation
- Main site: https://trustoverip.org/
- Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation
- Steering Committee: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Steering+Committee+Meeting+Page
- 9 Sep 2020 - Steering Committee Meeting:
- ToIP Working Groups:
  - Communications Committee
    - https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Communications+Committee
    - Confluence wiki organization, development, templates, and training
    - V2 of our ToIP stack diagram
    - V2 of our Introducing the Trust over IP Foundation white paper
    - New ToIP Interoperability Profiles white paper
  - Governance Stack
    - Governance models & standards https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/concepts/0289-toip-stack
    - Main WG Page: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/GSWG+Meeting+Page
    - 7 Oct 2020 meeting (APAC)
      - Presentation link: recording
      - Review on - Governance Architecture TSS (Drummond Reed). "Accepted to be a Draft" is available for review here."
      - Review on - (Scott Perry) "Pre-Draft" is available for - Process and Roles Recommendations | Credentials Class Definitions | Master Credential Policy Template
    - 1 Oct 2020 meeting (NA/EU)
      - Presentation link: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/GSWG+Meeting+Page
      - Pre-Draft Deliverables (WIP)
        Governance Architecture TSS (Drummond Reed). "Pre-Draft" is available for review here."
        Accepted to be a Draft Deliverable (by consensus)
        Process and Roles Recommendations (Scott Perry ) "Pre-Draft is available for review here and here"
        Credentials Class Definitions (Scott Perry ) "Pre-Draft" is available for review here."
        Master Credential Policy Template (Scott Perry) "Pre-Draft" is available for review here."
    - ToIP Standards Specification (TSS) - defines overall governance framework model, intended to become an industry standard. May be implemented by multiple TIPs
    - Layer One Utility Governance Framework Templates (based on Sovrin)
  - Technical Stack
    - WG: 5 Oct 2020 https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-10-5+Weekly+Meeting
      - Discussion topics
        Saturn V Proposal – on hold pending Design Principles it can reference (Laws of Identity, Privacy by Design)
        TSWG Deliverables and Process
        Convert concepts discussed here: TSWG Deliverables Process, TIP Incubation and Graduation Process
        TIP Proposal Template was introduced and need to be incorporated into the broader TSWG process.
  - Utility Foundry
    - Focus on Layer One (e.g., Indy ledger) utility projects
    - WG: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/UFWG+Meeting+Page
    - 9-15-2020: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-09-15+Meeting+Page
    - Bedrock
      1. Call for interested companies that may be interested in joining.
    - SSI4DE
      1. Co-Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs.
    - Sovrin MainNet
      1. Transition Team has commenced work. Stability of MainNet is the focus. There is focus on membership ramp-up and acquiring new funds for the Sovrin Foundation to have operational stability and hire for new positions including a Community Manager
  - Ecosystem Foundry
    - WG: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+Meeting+Page
      - Patient Identity Task Force introduction - Dinocrates Group LLC
      - Human Trafficking Ecosystem Task Force introduction - Secours.io
      - Entidad Ecosystem Use Case - entidad.io
      - Ecosystem template and term definitions
  - Decentralized Semantics
    - Main: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Semantics+Working+Group
    - WG: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-09-08+Weekly+Meeting
      - Presentation: Interoperable schema (Presented by Robert—10 mins)
        Ref.: https://wiki.hyperledger.org /display/II/Agenda?preview=/36734080/39617940/20200902%20IIO%20Vision%20For%20Interoperable%20Schema_0.mp4
  - Concepts and Terminology
    - WG: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=65700
    - Develop a glossary of shared concepts and terminology

DIF DIDComm Working Group
- WG Rolling Agenda
- DIDComm.org Progress
  - Repo exists: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm.org
- Milestones
- Mime Types
DIF Interoperability Group
- https://identity.foundation/interop/
- Participation does not require DIF membership (to sign-up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekX5D5l1oXv1Z-jtn6Yq6R3_KwreRDuu2v2zHv2v2zoxeG5g/viewform)
- DIF Interop WG Charter Draft
Sovrin Foundation
- Technical Governance Board (TGB)
  - Meeting Minutes:
  - 30 Oct 2020
    - New TGB members
    - Board resolution on code changes and change definition criteria
      - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M48s_HECkqxO9v1AWQhDTguO9ylZomjaMDEvHtMlmHw/edit?ts=5f968229#gid=0
    - Discussed Swisscom webinar: https://www.hyperledger.org/learn/webinars/hyperledger-member-webinar-optimizing-supplier-onboarding-assessment-processes-through-ssi-swisscom
    - IIW Update
    - Next meeting (12 Nov 2020): Sam Smith to present on KERI
- Steward Council
  - All Steward Call 8-20-2020
  - Steward Council Meeting Page:
  - Reviewed Workstreams (1) Health monitoring, 2) technical, 3) community engagement)
- Network is healthy with near 100% uptime

W3C Standard
- Verifiable Credentials Working Group
- DID Working Group
  - DID Working Group Face-to-Face this week. Expect freeze to standard in May.

Identity Special Interest Group