2021-02-11 : Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

Connection Info

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

Date

Feb 11, 2021 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@seropass.me>

• @Michael Bailey(Paramount Software) <mbailey@paramountsoft.net>

• @Michael Michael(Trusted Digital Web/Hyperonomy Digital Identity Lab/Parallelspace Corporation) <mwherman@parallelspace.net>

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

• Sam Curren

• Charalampos Savvaidis

• Dale Jones

• Horacio Nunez

• Nathan George

• Riley Hughes

• Stephen Curran

Announcements

• Thoughtful Biometrics - March 9,10,12 thoughtfulbiometrics.org

• IIW Workshop #32 (Apr 2021), online, https://internetidentityworkshop.com

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

• Main Identity WG

  • Meeting Notes:  2021-02-03

    • Discussion of identity topics to be addressed in 2021 

    • Presentation slides:  IDWG-Roadmap 2021.pdf

    • Recording:  Video

• Hyperledger Indy

  • Contributors Meeting

    • 2021-02-04 Special: Upgrade Indy

      • Indy CI/CD pipeline for Node & Plenum is moving to GitHub Actions (merged?)

      • Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade

        • Needs an Ursa upgrade (depends on libssl1.0.0)

        • Upgrade Python to 3.8

      • Indy SDK Release

        • RC published and being tested (1.16, Build 170)

        • Ready to release

      • Upgrade paths for Stewards:  upgrade Indy Node and then upgrade Ubuntu

      • Indy Monitoring - https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node-monitor

  • Indy/Aries Shared Libraries

    • Next up – merging branch into Aries Cloud Agent Python main to enable use.

• Hyperledger Aries

  • Aries Working Group meetings:

    • Meeting Agenda & Notes:  Aries Working Group

    • WG A: 2021-02-10-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)

      • Presentation and discussion on face recognition biometrics and identity solutions from Applied Recognition Corp.

      • Sources:  https://github.com/AppliedRecognition/

    • WG B:  2021-02-10-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

      • Aries Exit from Incubation

        • Criteria: https://tsc.hyperledger.org/project-incubation-exit.html

        • Being presented to the Technical Steering Committee (TSC)

      • Peer DID Method 2 Updated - https://github.com/decentralized-identity/peer-did-method-spec/pull/26/files

      • Aries Interop Protocol V2

        • Updates and realignment of subtargets 

        • https://github.com/swcurran/aries-rfcs/blob/0d5ce50ca8d0b4834f275c3e8e906a6dfd19d821/concepts/0302-aries-interop-profile/README.md

        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/579 (Main AIP 2.0 PR)

  • Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)

    • Release 0.6.0 (almost) available, includes

      • OOB/DID Exchange support merged – testing/tweaking

      • Adjustments for supporting aries-askar – mostly internal

      • Multi-Tenant Support -  SICPA and collaborators (Animo, Anon Solutions)

      • Mediator Support – Indicio - ACA-Py as mediator, ACA-Py as mediator client (through connections protocol) merged; Admin API, fixes in progress; need to add support for DID Exchange/OOB

    • In Progress:

      • Persistent Queues – Kiva – WIP PR submitted using redis

      • Credential Exchange V2 (RFC 0453/0454)

      • Getting to W3C Verifiable Credential support with ZKP and Selective Disclosure with Revocation.

        • DHS SVIP JSON-LD Verifiable Credential exchange in Aries Protocols

        • https://hackmd.io/@animo/acapy-bbs-2

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

    • Enabling use of aries-askar to ACA-Py as a startup option.

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

    • Aries-Framework-Go #aries-go

      • 2021-02-09 Framework Go Weekly Planning

        • Move storage definitions to service provider interface module.

        • Improvements to storage implementations.

        • Implement RFC 0360 - Use DID Key.

        • Enable repolinter.

        • JWE fixes.

    • Aries-SDK-Ruby 

      • Horcrux gem for ActiveStorage (0.0.4), moved to https://github.com/decentralized-identity/activestorage-horcrux

  • Tools

    • Aries Toolbox – supports ACA-Py 5.3 https://github.com/thclab/aries 

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

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

      • Aries Framework Go interop in progress – uncovering little stuff!