2021-03-25 : Identity Implementers WG Call

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

Mar 25, 2021 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

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• Name (Organization) <email>

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

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

• Bruce Conrad

• Jim Mason

• Michelle

• Horatio Nunez

• 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:  2021-03-03

    • 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

  • 2021-03-16 Indy Contributors Call

    • Indy Node

      • Functionality to remove tokens (Richard Esplin)

        • Blocked by system test dependency on sovrin.deb

        • Will split Sovrin specific tests in indy-test-automation into separate repo in sovrin-foundation org

        • Need to move to GitHub Actions pipeline for Sovrin deb.

      • Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade

        • Making good progress, but blocked because there isn't a pipeline.

        • Draft of pipeline based on PR1505 : https://github.com/udosson/indy-plenum/tree/gha-ubuntu-20.04/.github/workflows

      • New branching model

    • Indy SDK

      • Moving to GitHub actions

      • Indy Node release needs a build of Indy SDK with freeze ledgers to do system tests. Currently blocked with publishing to pypi.

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

    • Indy/Aries Shared Libraries - donated to Hyperledger (indy-vdr, indy-shared-rs, aries-askar)

    • Hyperledger Contribution Campaign 

• Hyperledger Aries

  • 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:  2021-03-24-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

      • Aries Agent Test Harness Interoperability Test Status – presentation for DIF Interoperability WG - Stephen Curran

      • AIP Next 

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

        • AIP 2.0 PRs

      • Merged several PRs

      • Next Week – PRs for AIP 2.0, Issues for AIP 2.0, Status changes for AIP 2.0

  • Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)

    • Release 0.6.0 tagged and image posted.

    • Recently Merged:

      • BDD test suite of integration tests that supplement the AATH tests – different startup options, e.g. multi-tenancy, mediator, etc.

    • In Progress:

      • Credential Exchange V2 (0454)

      • Shared Components: Fully functional branch that uses the shared libraries, not indy-sdk

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

      • DIF Presentation Exchange

  • Aries Bifold User Group

    • 2021-03-24 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting

      • Discussed GitHub projects, and basic functionality

        • Connections, Receiving credentials, presenting proofs, revocation, auth, pin/biometrics, etc.

      • Code Base

        • 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)

      • Installable via pip; github actions build and test for Windows, Mac and Linux 

      • indy-vdr - release 0.2.1  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr

      • indy-shared-rs - indy-credx release 0.2.3  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-shared-rs

      • aries-askar (storage) - release 0.1.3, will be working on BBS+ and DIDComm v2 support  https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-askar

    • Aries-Framework-Go #aries-go

      • 2021-03-23 Framework Go Weekly Planning

      • Released v0.1.6

      • Implementing UniversalWallet2020 APIs

      • Working on AIP 2.0

    • 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