2021-10-21 : Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

On Today's Call:

Review: Working Group status updates
Presentation: Discussion of SSI topics

Connection Info

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

Date

21 Oct 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>

Announcements

Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) #33 happened on October 12-14. Proceedings not yet available, but (for attendees) the notes are still on qiqochat.com.
Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee are over. Congratulations to Nathan George and Troy Ronda!
Kiva Fall 2021 Hack-A-Thon (https://kiva.devpost.com/): deadline Nov 4th

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
- Slides: Hyperledger EIDW presentation - FINAL.pdf
- Meeting recording: zoom_0.mp4

Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG
- 2021-09-28 Indy Contributors Call
  - Update on CI/CD Update and Ubuntu Upgrade
    - Status Document
    - Indy-Plenum - done
    - Indy-Node - done
    - indy-test-automation - almost ready, but no Sovrin dependencies
  - Sovrin Release - pending
  - Indy DID Method:
    - Spec: https://hyperledger.github.io/indy-did-method/
    - Source: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-did-method
  - Indy SDK: Status?

Hyperledger Aries
- Aries Working Group meetings:
  - Meeting Agenda & Notes: Aries Working Group
  - 2021-10-20 Aries Working Group Call
    - Aries Mobile Agent Summit:
      - Topics: RFC 496 (OOB & DID Exchange), Invitations, SVG Cred, Machine Readable Governance, native / existing apps, unsupported DID Method, revocation, mobile verifiers, secure elements, recovery, etc.
      - Date: 27 Oct 2021 (& the next few weeks)
    - Potential DIDComm Users Group
    - Aries Mediator Service (see Ian Costanzo for slides)
      - Proposing a new turnkey mediator service / framework based on ACA-Py (or Go, .NET, JS)
      - Example (supports AIP2 mediator protocols): https://github.com/Indicio-tech/infra-mediator
      - Next steps: seeking developer volunteers, how-to docs,
    - ACDC: addressing problems of JSON-LD serialization of RDF
- Aries Bifold User Group (React Native & Typscript)
- Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
  - 2021-10-19 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
    - BC Gov Team
      - Aries-VCR/OrgBook BC Deployment: in progress
      - Verification Tutorial – to demonstrate receiving their first verifiable credential
      - Aries Agent Test Harness work - Results page: https://aries-interop.info
      - BPA - Business Partner Agent for B2B use of VCs
      - Aries Shared Components – indy-vdr, indy-shared-rs and aries-askar
    - Creating a new "aries-mediator-service" repo
      - Background: Proposal on Aries channel: https://chat.hyperledger.org/channel/aries?msg=AoJWWBfs6z3KYyzK3
      - Tentatively using ACA-Py as a dependency: https://github.com/Indicio-tech/infra-mediator
    - Proposal: create a new "indy-endorser-service" repo
    - Status of ACA-Py Indy Multi-ledger support
- 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)
- 2021-09-29 Meeting Notes
  - Rank-1 Constraint System (R1CS):
    - https://www.zeroknowledgeblog.com/index.php/the-pinocchio-protocol/r1cs
    - PR: https://github.com/hyperledger/ursa/pull/192

Trust Over IP Foundation
- Main site: https://trustoverip.org/
- Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation
- All Members Meeting
  - 20 Oct 2021: minutes not yet available
    - ToIP Year in Review: https://trustoverip.org/blog/2021/10/07/a-year-in-review-new-beginnings-and-successes/
      - Technology Stack Working Group
        Created task force for Authentic Chained Data Containers (semantic of source provenance, authorization provenance, and delegation.)
        Building interoperability test suites for Aries, multiple layer 1 technologies, etc.
        ToIP Standard Specification to define the technical requirements for the 4 layers of the ToIP Stack
        Created a Trust Registry Task Force to define API specifications for Trust Registries (started in support of Good Health Pass)
      - Governance Stack Working Group
        Creating the ToIP Governance Architecture TSS & ToIP Governance Metamodel
        Contributed heavily to the governance recommendations for GHP
        Created a Trust Assurance Task Force to focus on governance risk assessment and accountability, created assessment templates and guides
      - Ecosystem Foundry Working Group (ToIP Layer-4 ecosystems)
        Internet of Research Ecosystem Task Force: implementation of academic resource identifiers ecosystems for the research community
        COVID-19 Credentials Governance Framework Task Force: develop reference materials, best practices, and templates
        YOMA Ecosystem Task Force: created a ToIP-based Governance Framework to positively impact youth and local communities around the world
        Human Trafficking Safety Response Task Force (https://wiki.trustoverip.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=67137): research using ToIP models to curtail global human trafficking
      - Utility Foundry Working Group (ToIP Layer 1)
        Document layer 1 utilities into story formats
        Created best practice documents (e.g., Decentralized Network Best Practices and Decentralized Network Design Principles)
        Publishing a paper describing UFWG & layer 1 utility case studies
        Expanding coverage of non-Indy-based ledgers
      - Inputs and Semantics Working Group
        Focus: concepts and components for the Dynamic Data Economy (DDE), a safe and secure decentralized data sharing economy.
        Whitepaper: Decentralized Resource Identifiers in the Research Landscape
        GHP contributions: “Standard Data Models and Elements” and “Security, Privacy, and Data Protection”
        Health Care Task Force (HCTF) that led to GHP Blueprint recommendations
        Defined a privacy controller credential supporting decentralized identifiers across ecosystems
      - Concepts and Terminology Working Group (CTWG)
        Analyzes and maintains terminology requirements for the ToIP Foundation
        Created standard glossaries of terms and definitions
        Authored a custom specification for a ToIP Term tool
        Started “terms wikis” that help different groups develop & maintain their own glossaries
      - Interoperability Working Group for Good Health Pass
        https://wiki.trustoverip.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=73790
        Facilitated a community of practice for implementers, issuers, holders, verifiers, governance authorities, etc. within the Good Health Pass digital trust ecosystem.
        Good Health Pass Interoperability Blueprint (PDF), that makes key recommendations on how to reopen global travel with verifiable credentials for sharing COVID-19 health status (tests, vaccinations, and recovery).
    - Introduction to ToIP V2 white paper
      - https://docs.google.com/document/d/15B3kzBECkasyDZ8CByyGInqVL3gdokPYSRU7KSUP-VQ/edit#heading=h.vns9nhhunwt
- Steering Committee Meeting
  - 20 Oct 2021: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-10-20+Steering+Committee+Meeting+Page
    - Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=75979
    - Administrative issues
    - Slides: 102021 Steering Committee Plenay 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/2021-10-15+Communications+Committee+Meeting+Notes
    - ToIP Approved Deliverable Template / Guide
    - Processes for position papers and blogs
    - Recording: Link
    - Slides: Communications Committee - Agenda 10.15.21.pdf
  - Governance Stack
    - 7 Oct 2021 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-10-07+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
    - 18 Oct 2021: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-10-18+TSWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Design Principles for the ToIP Stack: approved as a Draft Deliverable
      - ToIP Trust Registry Protocol Specification: ready for circulation
      - Authentic Chained Data Container (ACDC):
        Pre-Draft Deliverable
        Slides from the original white paper
  - 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+2021-10-07+Meeting
      - Do You Trust Me white paper - request for approval as a Draft Deliverable
      - Presentation: Creating a Universal Digital Circularity Fingerprint for Products: 202108_PCDS_Presentation.pdf
  - 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
- 18 Oct 2021 meeting
  - Discussion of IIW topics
  - PRs
- Reference Implementations
  - DIDComm
    - Rust: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-rs
    - Python: https://github.com/sicpa-dlab/didcomm-python
    - JVM: https://github.com/sicpa-dlab/didcomm-jvm
    - Rust, JS, TS: https://github.com/sicpa-dlab/didcomm-rust
  - DIDComm + PeerDIDs
    - https://github.com/sicpa-dlab/peer-did-python
    - https://github.com/sicpa-dlab/peer-did-jvm
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
  - 20 Oct 2021
    - Recap of IIW topics
Sovrin Foundation
- Discussing new fee structure for Sovrin Networks
- Technical Governance Board (TGB)
  - 14 Oct 2021 Meeting Minutes:
    - Cancelled due to IIW
- Steward Council
  - Rolling Agenda:
  - On summer / winter break until August
  - 30 Sep 2021
    - Presentation Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14nE_9vVmWV35LKzYhcELHqWYDcTL9xaGP9yzcxqNoE0/edit#slide=id.g4227fd63e5_0_225
    - Update on Sovrin upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04

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

Other?

Presentation:

Open discussion of IIW topics

Future Topics

Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org)

Identity Special Interest Group