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

11 Feb 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!

• Hyperledger Ursa
  • Homepage:  Hyperledger Ursa (EOL) 
  • 2021-02-03 Meeting Agenda
    
    • Presentation from Avradip on ZK frameworks.
      1. Introduction to ZK proofs (at a high level, theory-based).
      2. Discussion of zkinterface.
    • Discussion on what to do with pairing plus.
    • Ursa HW interface (interest?)
    • Go implementation of BBS+

• Trust Over IP Foundation
  • Main site:  https://trustoverip.org/ 
  • Wiki:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation 
  • All Members Meeting
    • 20 Jan 2021:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-01-20+All+Members+Meeting+Notes
  • Steering Committee Meeting
    • 10 Feb 2021:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-02-03+Steering+Committee+%28Special+Topic%29+Meeting+Page
    • Recording:  Link
    • Good Health Pass 
      • Presentation on Covid-19 efforts (Charles Walton)
      • Partnership of many health-related organizations
      • Website:  https://www.goodhealthpass.org
      • Whitepaper:  Download the white paper
  • Webinar:  Trust over IP and Government (15 Dec 2020)
    • Verifiable Credentials, passports, Covid Credential Initiative (CCI) 
    • https://zoom.us/rec/share/j4vfX47K1RPgZlmGHpfrC6YEh6RXGs86KiEdTmq6z4VUOFM7Aa97u-6Yzz5rZ6dx.jg5BtbuA5HnxYOVL
  • ToIP Working Groups:
    • Communications Committee:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Communications+Committee 
    • Governance Stack
    • Technical Stack 
    • Utility Foundry
    • Ecosystem Foundry
    • Decentralized Semantics
    • Concepts and Terminology 

• DIF DIDComm Working Group
  • Rolling Agenda:  https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm/blob/main/agenda.md
  • 8 Feb 2021 meeting:
    • Recording:  https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/cqnWgNI8NweatY1vGGx3vb4MjujVuIuaz8OxVpMlQLY89aW1UbZtiHer7x0Fig47.aGWlrp24UnZ7sTx0 
    • Discussing attachments
• DIF Interoperability Group
  • Main:  https://identity.foundation/interop/ 
  • Wiki:  https://www.notion.so/Interoperability-WG-a42995c37e2a4511a10aea96cdbccc38
  • Rolling agenda:  https://github.com/decentralized-identity/interoperability/blob/master/agenda.md
    • 10 Feb 2021:  
      • Credential Revocation 
        • Recording and Slides 

      • Context and Recommended Advanced Readings:

        • W3C-CCG VC Extensions registry section on credential status

        • Slides and transcript+audio recording of Mike Lodder's overview of past (CL) and future (BBS+?) accumulator schemes, April 2020

        • Slides and sparse notes from Indy Interopathon (Sept2020)

        • Digital Bazaar's LD-based revocation-list-2020 spec

        • API readme for AnonCreds (from HL ursa repo)

• Sovrin Foundation
  • Technical Governance Board (TGB)
    • 4 Feb 2021 Meeting Minutes:  

      • New Slack channel

      • Plan for removing token code from MainNet (Chris)
        • Sovrin SIP 
        • Indy HIPE
      • Planning steward upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04 (Richard)
        • Status of Indy release with upgraded Ubuntu.
        • Need to ensure stewards upgrade in batches of 5, so as not to interrupt consensus.
      • The future of the Sovrin.deb package (Richard)
  • Steward Council
    • 4 Feb 2021 

    • Presentation:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rmGtvby6Fb2jSc8o8K-MeTpB7fJp8NBnVOlLiVyoBdA/edit#slide=id.g4227fd63e5_0_225

    • Agenda
      • TGB Update
      • Indy Node Updates (GitHub Actions and Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade)
      • Indy SDK:  Absa is helping move Indy SDK to GitHub Actions
        • Discussion of Indy SDK's Future:  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/pull/2329
      • New Sovrin Slack Channel :  https://sovrinfoundation.slack.com/archives/C01KLN04274

• W3C Standard
  • Verifiable Credentials Working Group
  • DID Working Group

• Other?

Presentation

Future Topics

• Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org) 

Call Recording