2021-03-11 : Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

Connection Info

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

Date

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

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>

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

• @Alexander Jonsson (Laniakea Health) <alex@seropass.me>

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

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

• Michael Herman

• Lohan Spies

• Brian Kang

• Bruce Conrad

• Jim Mason

• Renata Toktar

• Richard Esplin

Announcements

• 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 

• Turing Institute - Digital identity: a focus on evolving use cases & risks (March 11) - https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/digital-identity-focus-evolving-use-cases-risks

• LF Training (starts March 11):  Becoming a Hyperledger Aries Developer (https://www.edx.org/course/becoming-a-hyperledger-aries-developer)

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

• Main Identity WG

  • Meeting Notes:  2021-03-03

    • Drummond Reed presented an overview of his new book on Self-Sovereign Identity (https://www.manning.com/books/self-sovereign-identity)

• Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG

  • 2021-03-02 Indy Contributors Call

    • CI for Indy Node & Plenum - merged

    • CD for Indy Node & Plenum - in progress

    • CI/CD for Indy-SDK - in progress

    • Looking for additional volunteers

  • Next Indy-Node release – soon, pending CD completion

  • Ubuntu 20.04 - progressing, target release date?

  • PR from Indy-Node and Indy-Plenum Stable to Master - PR is ready for review

  • Upcoming 

    • Statement on the future of the Indy SDK: PR 2329

• Hyperledger Aries

  • GREEN!  Hyperledger Aries Proposal to Exit Incubation Status 

  • Aries Working Group meetings:

    • Meeting Agenda & Notes:  Aries Working Group

    • WG A: 2021-03-10-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)

      • Verifiable Credential - Overview of data models, VDR, revocation mechanism - demo with KERI based identifiers

        • Presentation: google doc access request link

    • WG B:  2021-03-10-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

      • AIP Next (completed/close?)

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

        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/596 - did:key

        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/588 - oob / route coordination 

        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/593 - JSON-LD Attachments 

        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/595 - oob mime type 

        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/587 - Envelope v2

        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/599 - Complexity of multiple format identifiers 

  • 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

    • 2021-03-10 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting

      • Discussed group goals, license issues, etc.

      • Existing Code Walkthrough 

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

        • Aries Mobile Agent React Native - https://github.com/Indicio-tech/aries-mobileagent-react-native

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

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

    • Rocket Chat Channel:  https://chat.hyperledger.org/channel/aries-bifold

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

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

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

    • Aries-Framework-Go #aries-go

      • 2021-03-09 Framework Go Weekly Planning

        • Fixed permission denied error for tks folder (linux) #2621

        • Sign credential - support BBS+ (API) #2601

        • Presentation exchange - BBS+ BDD test #2587

    • Aries-SDK-Ruby 

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

  • Tools (great for interoperability testing)

    • 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