2021-11-18 : Identity Implementers WG Call - Cancelled

Summary

Connection Info

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

Date

Nov 18, 2021 4PM 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

  • On break until Nov 10th

  • 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

  • 2021-10-26 Indy Contributors Call

    • Update on CI/CD Update and Ubuntu 20.04 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

    • 2021-10-26 Indy Contributors Call

      • indy-node:  20.04 complete

      • indy-plenum:  20.04 is complete

      • indy-sdk:  no work needed, future support is uncertain

      • indy-test-automation:  running in Github Actions, all tests passing, removed the sovtoken

      • Indy Contributor Campaign

        • Soliciting support and involvement from organizations building Indy instances and applications

        • Features

          • Network of networks support

          • Support for W3C DID Standard 1.0

          • did:indy specification

          • Adding support for diddoc_content data elements

  • Aries Bifold User Group (React Native & Typscript)

  • • 2021-10-26 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/

      • UI Components Discussion

        • Ontario - Internationalization / Localization

        • Ontario - Biometrics

        • Extract Terms of Service into component

        • Theme Customization:  expose style settings

        • NPM Package?

          • AFJ-Ext vs @aries-mobile-agent-react-native

          • Leaning towards AFJ-Ext

      • 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)

    • 2021-11-02 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

      • AIP 2.0 – What's Missing?

        • ACA-Py Feature Overview – (server-side support) joint effort by Animo Solutions and Northern Block

        • To be implemented:

          • Revocation Notification 

          • Discover Feature 2.0 – Is there sufficient support for Goal Codes?

          • Please Ack

          • Static Peer DIDs

  • 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

    • • 2021-10-19 Framework Go Weekly Planning

      • Released v0.1.6

      • DIDComm V2 support in AFGO 0.1.7

    • Aries-Framework-JavaScript - Framework JS Meetings

      • 2021-10-21 Aries Framework JS Meeting notes

      • Released 0.1.0-alpha.253

      • 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

      • Last update 7/14/2020

  • 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) 

  • 2021-10-13 Meeting Notes

    • Meeting cancelled due to IIW

• 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

      • 11 Nov 2021 Meeting:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-11-04+GSWG+Meeting+Notes

      • In progress:  ToIP Governance Metamodel Companion Guide

      • Presentation:  Cheqd Layer 1 / Token:  https://docs.cheqd.io/governance/

      • First Draft:  Design Principles for the ToIP Stack

      • Finalizing the ToIP Governance Architecture Specification, the ToIP Governance Metamodel Specification

    • Technology Stack Working Group

      • Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Technology+Stack+Working+Group 

      • 11 Nov 2021: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-11-01+TSWG+Meeting+Notes

        • ToIP Trust Registry Protocol Specification

        • Design Principles for the ToIP Stack:  

          • Approved as a Draft Deliverable

          • Slides:  

            

        • Authentic Chained Data Container (ACDC; ACDC TF):  

          • 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

      • 21 Oct 2021 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+2021-10-21+Meeting

        • Recording:  Link  

        • 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

  • 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

    • 3 Nov 2021

      • Rechartering, based on: https://www.notion.so/dif/HOSPITALITY-TRAVEL-SIG-242105321e1747f8bce776bf634a55b3.

      • Current charter (draft): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a01GQVtZB7tDVcm9avS8zuYPHQzEEDtTOEh4Bqu-8Bs/edit

• Sovrin Foundation

  • Discussing new fee structure for Sovrin Networks

  • Technical Governance Board (TGB)

    • Rolling Agenda:  

      

    • 14 Oct 2021: cancelled due to IIW

  • Steward Council

    • Rolling Agenda:  

      
       

    • 14 Oct 2021:  cancelled due to IIW

• W3C Standard

  • Verifiable Credentials Working Group

  • DID Working Group

    • Charter:  https://www.w3.org/2020/12/did-wg-charter.html 

    • DID Method Rubric v1.0:  https://www.w3.org/TR/did-rubric/ 

    • Approval status of the DID Specification

      • In review for recommended release

      • Recommendation to not recommend (Mozilla):  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2021Sep/0000.html

      • A DIF & ToIP joint Statement of Support for the Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 specification becoming a W3C Standard: https://trustoverip.org/category/blog/

      • Evernym Webinar (3 Nov 2021):  "Why The Web Needs Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs)—Even if Google, Apple, and Mozilla Object"

        • Recording:  dids-webinar