2021-10-7 : Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

Connection Info

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

Date

Oct 7, 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

• 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)

  • • 2021-09-22 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting

      • 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/

      • Connection Invitation Discussion

        • https://hackmd.io/QuB3EUxtTMOQEmzhqufC6g?view

      • App Store Deployment Discussion

      • Aries Hooks

        • NPM Package Publishing discussion

      • Aries Framework Javascript

        • Released 0.1.0-alpha.253

      • 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)

    • 2021-09-21 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)

  • • 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 0.3.3  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 0.2.2  https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-askar

    • Aries-Framework-Go #aries-go

    • • 2021-09-07 Framework Go Weekly Planning

      • Released v0.1.6

      • DIDComm V2 support in AFGO 0.1.7

    • 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

      • 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 (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