2021-02-25 : Identity Implementers WG Call

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

Feb 25, 2021 4PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

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• Name (Organization) <email>

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

• @Sam Curren(Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>

• @Lohan Spies(DIDx) <lohan.spies@didx.co.za>

• @Jim StClair (Lumedic) jim.stclair@lumedic.io

• Bruce Conrad

• Charles Lanahan

• Horacio Nunez

• Bill Lam

• Daniel Bachenheimer

• Marc

• Michael Bailey

• Stephen Curran

• Piero Anesin

• Michael Herman

• New Aries sub-project:  "Aries Bifold" (see below)

• Aries moved to Active Status!

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

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

• Hyperledger Global Forum 2021 (June 8-10) - https://www.hyperledger.org/event/hyperledger-global-forum-2021 

• Main Identity WG

  • Meeting Notes:  2021-02-17

    • Kaliya "Identity Woman" Young presents her new paper on VC Flavors.

      • The first part of the paper elaborates on the following three data formats of VCs by walking through a credential lifecycle:

        • JSON-LD family with LD Signatures or with BBS+ Signatures that enable Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKP or ZKPs)

        • JSON with JSON Web Signatures, precisely in the form of a JSON Web Token (JWT)

        • ZKP with Camenisch-Lysyanskaya Signatures (ZKP-CL)

      • The second part discusses at length the differences between JSON and JSON-LD and the differences between the two different ways to express ZKPs, namely ZKP-CL and the newest flavor JSON-LD ZKP with BBS+. 

    • Links to presentation items

      • Ravi Agrawal : https://blog.iota.org/releasing-iota-identity-alpha-a-standard-framework-for-digital-identity-cebabd108b4f/amp/

      • Vipin Bharathan : https://mattrglobal.github.io/bbs-signatures-spec/

      • Kaliya Identity Woman : https://www.lfph.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Verifiable-Credentials-Flavors-Explained.pdf is the presentation

    • Video Recording

• Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG

  • 2021-02-16 Indy Contributors Call

    • HIPEs for helpers to remove plugins: PR 162

      • Freeze ledgers

      • Fees in Indy

    • Demo of freeze ledgers transaction @Renata Toktar(10 minutes)

      • GitHub actions led by @Kevin Griffin - We need a GHA pipeline for Ubuntu 16.04

        • CI for Indy Node - merged

        • CD for Indy Node - active development - no official PR ready

        • CI/CD for Indy Plenum - draft done - a couple cleanups before merging, but still need to add the publishing part of CD

        • Completion of Sovrin release to produce final artifacts 

    • Ubuntu 20.04 Ryan Marsh, @Robin Klemens

      • Working on tests related to Python 3.8 upgrade – most are running, 4-5 to go, parallel looking at specific packages to be updated

    • PR from Stable to Master - some conflicts, but will be done before the next meeting.

• Hyperledger Aries

  • GREEN!  Hyperledger Aries Proposal to Exit Incubation Status 

  • Aries Working Group meetings:

    • Meeting Agenda & Notes:  Aries Working Group

    • WG A: 2021-02-24-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)

      • Data Sharing Hub - How Agents enables authentic data flows

        • PoC build by Human Colossus showing how the agent can be used to enable authentic data flows, sharing data and consent driven data lakes. We would show that on the example of patient requirement for clinical trial.  

    • WG B:  2021-02-24-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)

        • CII Badge questionnaire:  https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/en/projects/4088

      • 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)

        • Extend credentials to better support W3C VC data structures:  https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/591

        • DIDComm message envelope RFC – provide an overview of his RFC 0587 PR

        • Presentation Exchange RFC – review/revise the RFC 0510-dif-pres-exch as needed

  • 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 Bifold User Group

    • 2021-02-24 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting

      • Kickoff meeting

      • Organized the new group, discussed meeting times, names, etc.

      • Existing Code Walkthrough 

        • Aries Bifold: https://github.com/Indicio-tech/aries-bifold

        • Aries Framework Javascript: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript

        • rn-indy-sdk: https://github.com/AbsaOSS/rn-indy-sdk

  • 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

      • 2021-02-23 Framework Go Weekly Planning

        • VC wallet client, KMS integration & open & close wallet feature #2551,  #2541

        • Update aries to use the new storage interface (in-review) #2543

    • 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!