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

19 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>
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

Hyperledger Ursa
- Homepage: Hyperledger Ursa (EOL)
- 2020-11-11 Meeting Agenda
  - k256 crate (secp256k1). Should we use it?
    1. Everyone seems in favor.
    2. How to formalize–add to the refactoring documentation.
  - Ursa refactor:
    1. Focus on secret sharing
    2. We may need more buckets
  - Revocation issues (led by Brent):
    1. We should probably wait until refactor is done.
  - IETF Standardizing BLS Signatures
    1. We need to bring our signature into compliance when this happens
    2. We should also switch from Milagro to PairingPlus
  - Discussion on PR #143
    1. Misuse resistance vs efficiency

Trust Over IP Foundation
- Main site: https://trustoverip.org/
- Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation
- 28 Oct 2020 All Members Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/All+Members+Meeting+Page
  - Recording and slides available
- 14 Oct 2020 - Steering Committee Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-10-14+Steering+Committee+Meeting
  - Recording available
- 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
    - 12 Nov 2020 meeting (NA/EU)
      - Presentation link: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=71236
  - Technical Stack
    - 16 Nov 2020 WG: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-11-16+Weekly+Meeting
      - ToIP Technology Stack Design Principles (TSWG)
        Focus on overall design principles – separate deliverable from the specific Privacy by Design and Laws of Identity TFs
        Focus is on TIP independent and stack layer independent. So this is a separate full-stack deliverable. For example: Decentralization
      - ToIP Governance Stack Design Principles (GSWG)
      - ToIP Governance Architecture TSS (GSWG) <== underway
      - ToIP Technical Architecture TSS (TSWG): See RFC 289 Conversion TF
      - Design and Architecture of the ToIP Stack (white paper) (joint deliverable of GSWG and TSWG): Update Foundation Whitepaper
  - Utility Foundry
    - 10 Nov 2020 WG: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-11-10+Meeting+Page
    - Projects:
      - Bedrock
        Call for interested companies that may be interested in joining. Send email request to Dan Gisolfi stating company name and contact email address.
        Soft Launch Scheduled for 18 Nov 2020.
      - IDunion
        Competition phase in final stages, proposal has been handed in to German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs for execution phase. Final project report is work in progress. Activities on IDunion legal entity continue.
      - Sovrin
      - Indicio
        Indicio TestNet had successful "first upgrade" last week. DemoNet scheduled to be "live" by the end of next week, and MainNet scheduled to be "live" by the end of the year. Official announcements are forthcoming.
  - Ecosystem Foundry
    - WG: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+Meeting+Page
    - 19 Nov 2020 WG: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+2020-11-19+Meeting+Notes
      - Github Project Boards reference links
        https://github.com/features/project-management/
        https://github.com/orgs/trustoverip/projects/2
        https://github.com/trustoverip/ecosystem-foundry-wg/projects
  - 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
- Milestones
  - First Complete Draft - reads correctly from beginning to end Nov 30th
- DIDComm.org Progress
  - Repo: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm.org
- Github/Hackmd agenda and notes? Moving this direction
- https://github.com/w3c/did-use-cases/pull/100
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)
  - 12 Nov 2020 Meeting Minutes:
- Steward Council
  - All Steward Call 8-20-2020:
  - 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

Other?

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