2021-02-25 : Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

On Today's Call:

Review: Working Group status updates
Presentation: Lohan Spies will provide a presentation of tools & methods for monitoring the health and security of Indy-based ledgers.

Connection Info

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

Date

25 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>
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

Announcements

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

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

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)
- 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)
- 2020-02-17 Meeting Agenda
  - Introductions/Discussion of any ad hoc items.
  - Follow-up on ZK frameworks (Avradip).
  - General adherence to Hyperledger standards (repolinter, etc.).
  - Hardware interface: updates or interest?
  - Discussion on wrapping/signature interface

Trust Over IP Foundation
- Main site: https://trustoverip.org/
- Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation
- All Members Meeting
  - 17 Feb 2021: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-02-17+All+Members+Meeting+Notes
    - Slides: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-02-17+All+Members+Meeting+Notes?preview=/73682/73694/Trust%20over%20IP%20Foundation%20-%20All-Member%20Meeting%2002.17.21.pdf
    - Good Health Pass Initiative
    - ToIP Whitepaper v2 underway
- 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
- 15 Feb 2021 meeting:
  - PRs
    - 157 - JSON-LD Context
    - 160 - Remove old queue reference/TODOs
  - Issues
    - 162 - Rewrapping forwarded messages.
    - 159 - Which keys are used for encryption.
    - Discussion Topics
      - Peer DID Method 2: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/peer-did-method-spec/pull/26
  - Recording: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/H6tr8FGm8P_NU87tZBDZPDiUWBlTD8WSzUQ5tCMS8Mc4MIPS_KcUsORlXEM6U-i9.xoP19_0UgU5vGVBE
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
  - 17 Feb 2021 & 24 Feb 2021:
    - "Revocable BBS+"
    - Recording and Slides
      - Step-by-step guide to registering a DID Method presented on I&D WG 8 Feb - see item #6 and recording
        Updates from recently-registered DID methods:
        DID:Orb
        Special guest: Troy Ronda (SecureKey) will be discussing some of the peculiarities of DID:Orb, including its use of the ActivityPub gossip protocol for propagation of records and its usage of self-certifying identifiers
        DID:Tezos & DID:Doge (based on dogecoin)
        Special guests: Wayne Chang and Simon Bihel (Spruce)
    - Announcements
      - Wallet Security WG refining its charter and looking for a co-chair. Get in touch via DIF Slack
Sovrin Foundation
- Technical Governance Board (TGB)
  - 4 Feb 2021 Meeting Minutes:
    - Sovrin Token code: update or remove
      - Sovrin SIP
      - Indy HIPE
    - Future of the Sovrin.deb package
      - sovrin-foundation/sovrin
      - Moving to GitHub Actions
    - 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.
- Steward Council
  - Rolling Agenda:
  - 18 Feb 2021
    - Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rmGtvby6Fb2jSc8o8K-MeTpB7fJp8NBnVOlLiVyoBdA/edit#slide=id.g4227fd63e5_0_225
    - Agenda
      - TGB Update - Steve McCown
      - Indy Update - Richard Esplin
        Next release: Ubuntu 16.04 off of new pipeline (as few changes as possible)
        Then follow with a release that supports Ubuntu 20.04
        Wade will manage Stewards updating their nodes, likely in groups of 5 nodes
      - 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
      - Steward Health Workstream:
        Regular meetings
        Release v1 of open source monitoring tools, and focus on network security monitoring
        Need to decide what validator-info information is needed for monitoring compliance
      - Technical Workstream:
        Finalizing proposal for decentralization of MainNet Governance (ITIL)
      - Workstream Updates: Steward community
        Reward model: overlaps with token conversation, goal is for Stewards to make a proposal
        Steward Co-op
      - Indy SDK
        No new release is planned - https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/sovrin-sip/pull/28/files
        Indy CLI depends on libindy
        Absa is helping migrate libindy to GitHub Actions (looking for help)
        Shared Libraries: goal is to overcome libindy limitations regarding scaling

W3C Standard
- Verifiable Credentials Working Group
- DID Working Group

Other?

Presentation

Future Topics

Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org)

Identity Special Interest Group