2021-09-23 : Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

On Today's Call:

Review: Working Group status updates
Presentation: Xavier Vila (SICPA) will present an overview of SICPA and how they are creating and launching identity solutions.
Recording:

Connection Info

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

Date

23 Sep 2021 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

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Attendees

Name (Organization) <email>
Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
Victor Martinez (SICPA) <victor.martinez@sicpa.com>
Xavier Vila
Jim St.Clair
Sam Curren
Nathan George

Announcements

Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) #33, online, October 12-14
Kiva released "Indy-Diem" - provides an "Indy transaction layer" on top of the Diem ledger (https://github.com/kiva/indy-diem)
Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee elections are underway. Please vote. (invite will come to your email that is registered with LF)
- This week is the deadline for nominations. Voting is starting October 1st.
Findy Agent – open source code: https://findy-network.github.io/
Swiss- Discussion paper on the target vision for an e-ID:
- https://www.bj.admin.ch/dam/bj/en/data/staat/gesetzgebung/staatliche-e-id/diskussionspapier-zielbild-e-id.pdf.download.pdf/diskussionspapier-zielbild-e-id.pdf
GlobaliD - 'Code with me' proposal for native mobile aries frameworks. Information and reward details here
Kiva-sponsored Hack-A-Thon - https://kiva.devpost.com/

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
- 2021-08-31 Indy Contributors Call
  - Update on CI/CD Update and Ubuntu Upgrade
    - Status Document
    - ETA (close)?
  - Indy-Plenum
    - CI/CD nearly complete, 16.04 and 20.04
  - 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
  - 2021-09-22-Aries Working Group Call
    - Automated Data Agreement - Jan
    - Deep Linking
      - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/blob/main/concepts/0268-unified-didcomm-agent-deeplinking/README.md
    - RFC 496 Connection Protocol → DID Exchange Protocol
      - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/blob/main/features/0496-transition-to-oob-and-did-exchange/README.md
    - Forget Me RFC
      - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/697
    - UX of Invitations: https://hackmd.io/QuB3EUxtTMOQEmzhqufC6g
- Aries Bifold User Group (React Native & Typscript)
- Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
  - 2021-09-21 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
  - NEW TIME: Every second Tuesday at 8AM Canada Pacific time starting this coming Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021.
  - Release 0.7.2 PRs merged since 0.7.1
  - The Business Partner Agent (BPA) – An overview from Mines Digital Trust, BC Gov
    - "Business Partner Agent is a "wallet for businesses" (and a lot more!) that was started by Bosch - https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/business-partner-agent The BC Gov Mines Digital Trust team has been collaborating on BPA to create a way for business in the BC Natural Resources sector to be able to share trusted information about their operation to other businesses (partners, customers, etc.). BPA is built on ACA-Py and is a great demonstration of how Verifiable Credential-based systems can be implemented for complex, business to business use cases."
- Aries Language Frameworks, Libraries, and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
- Tools (great for interoperability testing)
  - Aries Toolbox (v 0.1.0) https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-acapy-plugin-toolbox
  - Aries Protocol Test Suite (v 0.1.0) - 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)
- 2021-09-15 Meeting Notes
  - Rank-1 Constraint System (R1CS): https://www.zeroknowledgeblog.com/index.php/the-pinocchio-protocol/r1cs
  - TSC: likability with Aries proofs
  - More discussion on https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1055.pdf

Trust Over IP Foundation
- Main site: https://trustoverip.org/
- Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation
- All Members Meeting
  - 15 Sep 2021: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-09-15+All+Members+Meeting+Notes
    - Special topic:
      - Ontario Government - Digital Identity Technology Roadmap
    - Announcement:
      - Foundational White Paper Review - Introduction to Trust Over IP
        Drummond Reed explained the community wide review process for the Introduction to ToIP V2 white paper
        Each Working Group should have a discussion about the white paper over the next week and provide feedback
        https://docs.google.com/document/d/15B3kzBECkasyDZ8CByyGInqVL3gdokPYSRU7KSUP-VQ/edit#heading=h.vns9nhhunwt
    - Recording: Link
    - Slides: 2021 09 15 Trust over IP Foundation _ All-Member Meeting 09.15.21.pdf
- Steering Committee Meeting
  - 24 Aug 2021: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-08-24+Steering+Committee+Meeting+Page
    - Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=75979
    - Administrative issues
    - Slides: 082421 Steering Commitee Plenary Meeting.pdf
    - Recording: Link
- ToIP Working Groups:
  - Communications Committee: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Communications+Committee
    - Meeting notes: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-09-17+Communications+Committee+Meeting+Notes
    - ToIP Approved Deliverable Template / Guide
    - Processes for position papers and blogs
    - Recording: Link
    - Slides: Communications Committee - Agenda 09.17.21.pdf
  - Governance Stack
    - 23 Sep 2021 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-09-23+GSWG+Plenary+Meeting+Notes
    - Proposed final versions of the ToIP Governance Framework Matrix and Governance Framework Matrix Companion Guide
  - Technical Stack - Interoperability Taskforce
    - Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Technology+Stack+Working+Group
    - 20 Sep 2021: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-09-20+TSWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Trust Registry TF
        Draft Deliverable for the ToIP Trust Registry Protocol V1 is nearly complete and ready for Community Review.
      - ACDC TF (Authentic Chained Data Container)
      - Design Principles TF
  - Utility Foundry
    - 14 Sep 2021 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-09-14+Meeting+Page
      - Review "Introduction to ToIP v2 White Paper":
      - Intro to cheqd Layer 1 Utility on Cosmos https://docs.cheqd.io/cheqd-node/
  - Ecosystem Foundry
    - 23 Sep 2021 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+2021-09-23+Meeting
      - Do You Trust Me white paper - request for approval as a Draft Deliverable
      - Introduction to ISO/IEC 18013-5 - The new ISO/IEC 18013-5 standard will officially be published towards the end of this month. This standard Is primarily about mobile driver’s licenses (mDL), but is set up in such a way that it can easily be used to create other mobile credentials.
  - Decentralized Semantics
    - Deliverables
      - Standard Data Models and Elements (GHPC) - initial draft completed
    - Items for open review (ongoing)
      1. OCA specification work
      2. GHP credential data capture specification work [GHP Data Models tech implementation]
      3. OCA-FHIR specification work [GHP Data Models tech implementation]
  - Concepts and Terminology
    - Deliverables
      1. ToIP Term Tool Specification (including data model and hyperlink solution)
      2. ToIP Term Wiki (“Termopedia”)
    - Open For Review
      - ToIP Term Tool specification
  - Good Health Pass Working Group
    - GHP Interoperability Blueprint approved deliverable on 26 July 2021
      - PDF

DIF DIDComm Working Group
- Rolling Agenda: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm/blob/main/agenda.md
- RFC Repository: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-messaging
- 13 Sep 2021 meeting
  - PRs
    - 267 - ECDH-1PU article -> in progress
    - 277 - Clarifies purpose of to attribute -> ok to merge but conflicts
    - 275 - body attribute required -> agreed to merge, but merge conflicts need to resolved
    - 274 - Make from required -> agreed to merge, but merge conflicts need to resolved
    - 270 - update the number of recipients keys in a JWE envelope -> merged
    - 272 - Update trustping.md
    - 268 - serviceendpoint no url or object
  - Key Negotiation
    - 238 - Multiple keys of different types and Keys negotiation
    - 218 - Need info about multiple recipients
  - Other Discussion Topics
    - 220 - Differentiating different forms of DIDComm messages
    - 138 - foundation / core protocols
    - 250 - combining OOB and feature discovery
DIF Interoperability Group
- Summer vacation: back on Sep 1
- 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
  - 22 Sep 2021
    - Library interop polooza follow up - Agenda worked on here.
Sovrin Foundation
- Discussing new fee structure for Sovrin Networks
- Technical Governance Board (TGB)
  - 16 Sep 2021 Meeting Minutes:
    - Annual Meeting
    - Indy release update
      - Ubuntu upgrade: Status Document
      - CI/CD based on Github Actions, for U1604 and U2004 now active. Very close to release readiness. Next step = break interdependencies between Sovrin and Indy packages.
    - Procedural and pricing updates
- Steward Council
  - Rolling Agenda:
  - On summer / winter break until August
  - 16 Sep 2021
    - Presentation Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ox3HLvMN_u_0iatjsk6i6ypsb7R5GBn4A_PJwCHP8RE/edit#slide=id.ged979e9a61_0_6
    - Update on Sovrin upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04

W3C Standard
- Verifiable Credentials Working Group
- DID Working Group
  - Approval status?

Identity Special Interest Group