2020-11-19 Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

Today's Call:

Review working group updates

Presenter:  Stephen Curran (BCGov) will present on how libindy features are evolving into multiple interoperable shared libraries

Presentation Slides:  

Connection Info

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

Date

Nov 19, 2020 4PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>

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

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

• Stephen Curran

• Adam Lambert

• Aruna S M

• Charles Lanahan

• Nathan George

• Sam Curren

• Sebastian Bickerle

• Sebastian Weidenbach (estas AG)

• Tej

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

    • 2020-11-10 Indy Contributors Call

      • Indy Plenum PR Review - the consensus code 

      • Indy Node Release Status Updates

        • Working on CI/CD process updates

      • Request for indy-sdk release

        • Mid-November release?

      • Progress: Indy DID Method (did:indy) Specification - Meetings: Indy DID Method Specification - Hyperledger Indy - Hyperledger Confluence

    • 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

    • Current status: creating a branch of ACA-Py with these components and without indy-sdk 

    • Indy 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 Shared:

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

      • areis-askar - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/aries-askar

  • Sovrin Token

    • Remove from MainNet?

• Hyperledger Aries

  • Aries Working Group meetings:

    • Meeting Agenda & Notes:  Aries Working Group

    • WG A:  2020-11-04-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)

      • No meeting on 18 Nov 2020

    • WG B:  2020-11-18-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

      • TOIP Interop, AIP Interop - Philip Feairheller - SCOIR

        • TIP Saturn 5 - Indy, Aries

        • Links:

          • Saturn 5 Tip: https://github.com/trustoverip/technology-stack-wg/blob/master/_proposals/saturn-v-tip.md

          • Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WkqSpFERc8now-f-Pz7PsRg9NMywSiZb92rTqJx5y00/edit?usp=sharing

      • AIP Next? (notes from last meeting)

        • Out Of Band

        • DID Exchange

        • Credential Exchange Protocols (v2)

        • feature discovery v2

        • mime-types (to help transition to didcomm v2)

        • Signed attachments

      • DIDComm v2 for binary protocols (gRPC) - Tomislav

  • 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)

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

    • areis-askar - 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.

        • Interop tests against Mattr implementation

        • Add selective disclosure capabilities

        • Interop tests against Mattr for selective disclosure

      • Adding support for did:web

      • 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