2021-08-26 : Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

On Today's Call:

Review: Working Group status updates
Presentation: Horacio Nunez (Kiva) will present a new open source desktop tool that will connect secure biometrics with SSI-powered backend services.
- https://github.com/kiva/protocol-desktop-tool

Connection Info

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

Date

Aug 26, 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>
@Sam Curren (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
@Daniel Bachenheimer (Accenture) <daniel.bachenheimer@accenture.com>
Bruce Conrad
Horacio Nunez
Leonid Gabarkov
Nathan George
Pavel Minenkov
Jim StClair

Announcements

IIW #33 (online October 12-14): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/internet-identity-workshop-iiwxxxiii-33-2021b-tickets-160257990965)
Good Health Pass Interoperability Blueprint (Draft):
- PDF
- https://www.goodhealthpass.org/
POC: Indy interface to the Diem Ledger (Kiva): https://github.com/kiva/indy-diem
TrustoverIP Saturn5 Interop Testing - Friday 9am EST (@Keith Smith ) See "Saturn V - Vendor Scrum (TSWG)" at https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Calendar+of+ToIP+Meetings
Cardea - Users Group meeting every Thursday 10am MDT - https://cardea.app/ - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3933667495?pwd=ZnlPSDJBcnljL0svS1djVGswcS84QT09

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

Main Identity WG
- Meeting Notes: 2021-06-23
- “eIDAS.2 – digital identity wallets on the way”
  - EU announcement: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_2663
  - EU PROPOSED Revised Regulation: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/trusted-and-secure-european-e-id-regulation
    - The reference above includes the implications of the draft EU law, with the legal basis for digital wallets
  - SSI vs national identity schemes
  - Attestation of attributes
  - requirements for European digital identity wallets
- Slides: Hyperledger EIDW presentation - FINAL.pdf
- Meeting recording: zoom_0.mp4

Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG
- 2021-08-17 Indy Contributors Call
  - Indy-Plenum
    - CI/CD nearly complete, 16.04 and 20.04 (fixing publishing structure)
  - Indy-Node - in progress
  - indy-test-automation - ready
  - Sovrin Release - pending Node and Plenum
  - Indy SDK
    - Async libindy: merge pending review https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/pull/2319
    - IndySDK LibVCX - consensus to remove from SDK, PR: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/pull/2416
    - Should Indy CLI be moved into standalone repository?

Hyperledger Aries
- Aries Working Group meetings:
  - Meeting Agenda & Notes: Aries Working Group
  - WG A: 2021-08-25-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
    - Intriguing presentation on "Fat protocols" based on DIDComm
    - Zoom recording: 2021-08-25-Aries A WG Call.mp4
  - WG B: 2021-08-25-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
    - New Meeting time: 8AM mountain, 1 hour, merging with a "Aries A call", will use A call time slot and links. Update calendar?
    - Meeting Format
      - Project Reviews
      - Remove related calls
      - Add announcements / updates to the agenda before the meeting to get time in the call
    - Connection reuse: status?
      - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/blob/main/features/0434-outofband/README.md#reuse-messages
    - Discussion of JSON-LD Credentials: status, upcoming, etc.
- Aries Bifold User Group (React Native & Typscript)
- - 2021-08-25 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting
    - Key features: connections, credentials, presenting proofs, revocation, authentication (PIN/biometrics), messaging, multi-ledger detection, UI/UX
    - Announcement:
      - SITA, Indicio launch Aruba Health App, built using components of Aries Bifold: https://www.sita.aero/pressroom/news-releases/sita-indicio-pave-way-to-safer-travel-experience-with-launch-of-aruba-health-app/
    - Aries Framework Javascript
      - Released 0.1.0-alpha.253
    - Indy wallet overhaul:
      - Config is less indy specific
      - Lot of methods moved to IndyLedgerService and IndyStorageService in preparation for shared libraries and browser wallet
      - Update to new indy-sdk-react-native (Hyperleger owned version of rn-indy-sdk)
    - In Progress - Holder Revocation - Indicio
    - 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 Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
  - 2021-08-18 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
  - Release 0.7.0-rc0 released
  - Release 0.7.1 – time? PRs merged since 0.7.0
  - Aries Agent Test Harness work - Results page: https://aries-interop.info
- 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 0.3.1 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
  - - 2021-07-13 Framework Go Weekly Planning
    - Released v0.1.6
    - did:orb 0.1 VDR component created for AFG
    - Implementing UniversalWallet2020 APIs
    - Working on AIP 2.0 and AcaPy integration
    - Working on ECDH-1PU draft 04
    - Investigating WACI-PeX compatability
  - Aries-Framework-JavaScript - Framework JS Meetings
    - Source packages
      - "@aries-framework/core" - https://www.npmjs.com/package/@aries-framework/core
      - "@aries-framework/node" - https://www.npmjs.com/package/@aries-framework/node
      - "@aries-framework/react-native" - https://www.npmjs.com/package/@aries-framework/react-native
    - Indy wallet overhaul:
      - Config is less indy specific
      - Lot of methods moved to IndyLedgerService and IndyStorageService in preparation for shared libraries and browser wallet
    - Update to new indy-sdk-react-native (Hyperleger owned version of rn-indy-sdk)
  - 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 (v 0.1.0) https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-acapy-plugin-toolbox
  - 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)
- 2021-08-18 Meeting Notes
  - Discussion of talks at CRYPTO conference.(what's practical vs theoretical)
  - BBS+ LD proof vulnerability.
    1. Most of the applied folks don't seem to care.
    2. Canonicalization algorithm isn't hiding.
    3. BBS+ Description: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/ldp-bbs2020/
    4. Canonicalization: https://json-ld.github.io/rdf-dataset-canonicalization/spec/
    5. LD Explanation: https://github.com/mattrglobal/jsonld-signatures-bbs
  - Discussion on Mike's accumulator proposal: https://hackmd.io/O4c3wiLZQLeXuXirm7dl9A