2021-03-25 : Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

Connection Info

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

Date

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

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com> 
• Daniel Bachenheimer (Accenture) <daniel.bachenheimer@accenture.com>
• Bruce Conrad
• Jim Mason
• Michelle
• Horatio Nunez

Announcements

• 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:  2021-03-03
    • 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

• Hyperledger Ursa
  • Homepage:  Hyperledger Ursa (EOL) 
  • 2021-03-17 Meeting Agenda
    
    • HGF talk proposal update 
    • Post-quantum plan confirmation 
    • Signature Interfaces
    • Discussion of key resharing.
    • Looking for volunteers

• Trust Over IP Foundation
  • Main site:  https://trustoverip.org/ 
  • Wiki:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation 
  • All Members Meeting
    • 17 Mar 2021:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-03-17+All+Members+Meeting+Notes
      • Slides:  Trust over IP Foundation - All-Member Meeting 03.17.21.pdf
      • Recording
      • ToIP Charter
      • Good Health Pass - becoming a full ToIP project effort
      • ToIP Whitepaper v2 underway
  • Steering Committee Meeting
    • 23/24 Mar 2021:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=74256
    • Presentation slides:  Trust over IP - Steering Committee - Good Health Pass WG - Mar23 2021.pdf
    • Recording:  LINK (3/23) and LINK (3/24)
    • Proposal:  Interoperability Working Group for Good Health Pass 
      • Partnership of many health-related organizations
      • Website:  https://www.goodhealthpass.org
      • Whitepaper:  Download the white paper
    • Role of ID2020 (intro by Dakota Gruener, Exec Dir of ID2020)
  • ToIP Working Groups:
    • Communications Committee:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Communications+Committee 
    • Governance Stack
    • Technical Stack - Interoperability Taskforce
    • 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
  • 22 Mar 2021 meeting

    • PRs

      • 170 - Restructure to solve image display issues.
      • 172 - Fix inconsistencies with to/next attributes in a forward message.
      • 171 - media type discussion
      • 167 - accept property
      • 161 - Attachments WIP
        • Encrypted Attachments https://hackmd.io/jx8W0boDSzmLe2r6LKQU5w

    • Issues

      • 165 - cty of JWM
      • 162 - Rewrapping forwarded messages. - awaiting PR
• 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
    • 24 Mar 2021:  
      • Stephen Curran from Aries and Anil John from SVIP spoke about interop profiles and test harnesses
      • Advanced readings:
        • Slides and demo/videos from SVIP event last week
          • VC-HTTP-API specification used in recent SVIP plugathon (more detailed documentation forthcoming)
          • CHAPI test suite recently updates as well
        • Recently-launched public website for tracking cross-agent testing in the Aries test harness
        • Guided tour of iGrant.io's Aries Testing Journey and their open-sourced Aries Interop Playground
        • Interop Testing Survey in support of DIF Member Gataca's Verifier Universal Interface (done through the interop program of ESSIF-LAB)
• Sovrin Foundation
  • Technical Governance Board (TGB)
    • 18 Mar 2021 Meeting Minutes:  
    • Sovrin Dashboards:  https://sovrin.org/ssi-metrics-dashboards/
    • Sovrin Security Policies (Review)
      • Sovrin Preliminary Security Review (2017)
      • Sovrin Crisis Management Plan (2017)
    • Looking for a CISO
    • Reviewing Sovrin infrastructure
      • Jenkins Nodes - AWS (Migrating to GHA)
      • Mac Stadium (Migrating to GHA)
      • Public documentation
      • Telegram, Signal
    • Repo (repo.sovrin.org)
    • Sovrin Jira
    • Sovrin GitHub (Public and Private repos)
    • Web site (sovrin.org)
    • Chat (Slack)
    • Calendars
    • Forms: Steward validator info
    • Self Serve Portal
    • Ursa discussion about divorcing Key Event Logs from Service Endpoints
  • Steward Council
    • Rolling Agenda:   
    • 18 Mar 2021 
      • Presentation slides:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/192LP_8WYqATVoDlNsp1aFytbqfXd-zjk6AS1VtP9dSU/edit#slide=id.g44af78d6af_0_16
      • Sufficient votes to keep token on main net
      • Indy Updates
        • Ubuntu 16.04 nearing EOL
        • Ubuntu 20.04 nearing compltion
          • Stewards can upgrade to a 1.12.4 ver (current) compatible with Ubuntu 20.04 
          • Once upgraded, Indy 1.13 upgrades available
          • Still working on CI/CD
      • Steward Project Showcase - the SSI eIDAS Bridge (Xavier Villa)

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

• Other?

Presentation:

Future Topics

• Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org) 

Call Recording