2021-06-03 : Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

Connection Info

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

Date

03 Jun 2021 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

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Attendees

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

Announcements

• Hyperledger Global Forum 2021 (June 8-10) - https://www.hyperledger.org/event/hyperledger-global-forum-2021 
• IIW #32 Proceedings are now available https://internetidentityworkshop.com/past-workshops/

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

• Main Identity WG
  • Meeting Notes:  2021-04-14
  • SSI implementation: Practical Experience From Alastria

    • Coty de Monteverde, Carlos Pastor, & Paula Pascual

    • Slides:  https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/IWG/2021-04-14?preview=/50135900/50136326/Alastria_Id_HyperLedger_2021%20v6.pdf

  • Meeting Recording

• Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG
  • 2021-05-11 Indy Contributors Call
    
    • Indy-Plenum CI 
      • No blockers, working on CD for Ubuntu 20.04
    • Indy-Node
      • Waiting on Indy Plenum.
    • Sovrin Release
      • Working on Issue with libsov token builds for IOS/client
    • indy-test-automation –waiting on the Sovrin packages

• Hyperledger Aries
  • Aries Working Group meetings:
    • Meeting Agenda & Notes:  Aries Working Group
    • WG A: 2021-05-05-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
      • AIP Next – Last Items 
        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/579 (Main AIP 2.0 PR)
        • PRs
        • Other AIP 2.0 Issues
        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/654 (RFC 587)
    • WG B:  2021-05-19-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
      • AIP Next – Last Items 
        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/579 (Main AIP 2.0 PR)
        • Other AIP 2.0 Issues
        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/654 (RFC 587 kid/skid).
      • WACI Pex / Aries contributions
        • WACI Proposal: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/waci-presentation-exchange/blob/main/spec/spec.md
        • AIP 2 based similar flow: https://hackmd.io/qePTzDDQRxOfqcnQFGTc4w?view
        • WACI Adaptation: https://hackmd.io/VFU0iL4ZQyuekaXwD_YQNg?view
  • 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) - almost done
      • 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 (React Native & Typscript)
  • 2021-05-19 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting
    
    • Key features:  connections, credentials, presenting proofs, revocation, authentication (PIN/biometrics), messaging, multi-ledger detection, UI/UX
    • Shared Components
      • Separated Indy Components in AFJ (with interfaces)
      • Ledger operations - Indy VDR, Indy VDR as Proxy, Indy SDK
      • C wrapper with Turbo modules
      • Outline approach in Indy VDR Issue
      • Start with one component - Indy VDR
    • Code Base
      • Aries Bifold: https://github.com/Indicio-tech/aries-bifold
      • Aries Mobile Agent React Native (moved to Hyperledger) - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-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)
    • Aries Shared Components
      • now installable via pip; github actions build and test for Windows, Mac and Linux 
      • indy-vdr - release 0.3.0  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
      • indy-shared-rs - indy-credx release 0.3.0  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
  • • 2021-05-04 Framework Go Weekly Planning
    • Released v0.1.6
    • Implementing UniversalWallet2020 APIs
    • Working on AIP 2.0 and AcaPy integration
  • 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
      • Test Run Status: https://aries-interop.info
      • New!  Mobile Wallet Test Agent for any mobile wallet
• Hyperledger Ursa
  • Homepage:  Hyperledger Ursa (EOL) 
  • 2021-05-12 Meeting Agenda
    
    • Reviewed threshold ECDSA protocols:
      1. https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/552.pdf
      2. https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/499.pdf
      3. https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/987.pdf

• Trust Over IP Foundation
  • Main site:  https://trustoverip.org/ 
  • Wiki:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation 
  • All Members Meeting
    • 28 Apr 2021:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-04-28+All+Members+Meeting+Notes
      • Slides:  Trust over IP Foundation _ All-Member Meeting 04.28.21.pdf
      • Recording
      • Project Charter (JDF 5.0)
      • Good Health Pass - now a full ToIP project effort
        • https://www.goodhealthpass.org/
      • ToIP Whitepaper v2 underway
      • Letter of Agreement - Sovrin and ToIP
        • Mutual support of each organization's efforts
  • Steering Committee Meeting
    • 18/19 Map 2021:  Special Project Meeting
      • Wiki:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=75979 
      • Slides:  Communications Committee - Agenda 05.14.21.pdf
      • Recording:  Link
  • 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
  • 10 May 2021 meeting

    • PRs

      • 190 - restoring anoncrypt (already merged)
        • Needs note about value of authcrypt, and why you should not invent another way to authenticate messages (future PR)
      • 185 - kid and skid headers
        • keys vs key refs
      • 172 - Fix inconsistencies with to/next attributes in a forward message.
      • 161 - Attachments

    • Discussion Topics

      • Etherium Compatible Key Wrapping - Oliver
      • JSON-LD Contexts - Oliver
      • Keys by Value or Ref
• 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
    • 28 April 2021:  
      • Nick Mothershaw (UK) from the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) will talk about the guide to defining, enforcing, and comparing trust frameworks that OIX released last July
      • A Guide to Trust Frameworks and Interoperability:  https://openidentityexchange.org/guide-trust-frameworks-interoperability
• Sovrin Foundation
  • Technical Governance Board (TGB)
    • 6 May 2021 Meeting Minutes:  
      • Sovrin Security Policies need updating
        • https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/sovrin-sip/tree/master/text/5002-sovrin-crisis-management-plan
        • https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/sovrin-sip/tree/master/text/5005-preliminary-security-review
      • CI/CD / Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade and Sovrin Release Planning - Stephen/Wade
      • CD for Indy Plenum is done, and in review
      • Status of the did:indy DID Method - Stephen
      • Will disallow non-self-certifying DIDs
      • Concern about user selected DIDs being a security risk
      • Concern about user selected DIDs being “squatted” on other networks: clients need to use fully qualified DIDs.
      • Working with UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media&Sport and participating on their Trust Framework. They have requested the following:
        • https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-uk-digital-identity-and-attributes-trust-framework/the-uk-digital-identity-and-attributes-trust-framework
  • Steward Council
    • Rolling Agenda:   
    • Next meeting is today
    • 1 April 2021 

      • Make LibIndy easier to use for app developers (Steve McCown)

        • Methods for Wrapping Rust Code (using Mozilla Uniffi - https://github.com/mozilla/uniffi-rs)


        • Presentation slides attached (https://lf-hyperledger.atlassian.net/wiki/display/IWG/2021-03-25+%3A+Identity+Implementers+WG+Call)

      • Health / Monitoring (Wade)


        • New plug-in architecture


        • Good list of tickets for new contributors in issue #24

        • Updating the node selection algorithm

      • Technical Workstream (Wade)


        • Indy upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04


          • Works on Ubuntu 20.04, but CI pipeline is not complete. Need contributors.


          • Migrating release artifacts to Hyperledger Artifactory.


        • Token Plugin:


          • Devin Smith has taken over from Anmol.


          • Existing builds have been fixed.


          • Working on upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04


          • Plans to switch to GitHub Actions after upgrade.

        • Sovrin Deb

          • Merge from Stable to Master is ready for review


      • Steward Community

        • Vote on removing the Sovrin Token: 11 keep / 11 remove
          

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

• Other?

Presentation:

Future Topics

• Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org) 

Call Recording