2022-11-17: Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

On Today's Call:

Review: Working Group status updates
Presentation: Ashok Ranadive (CasperLabs): Demo: Interoperability between Hyperledger Fabric and Casper through Atomic Swap

Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91329633752?pwd=elFrVUhOY3lybmRMMEtLS2MwMFNNdz09

Date

17 Nov 2022 4PM UTC, 8AM PST, 9AM MST, 11AM EST

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Name, organization, email
Char Howland (Indicio PBC) <char@indicio.tech.
Tim Spring
Ashok Ranadive
Nathan George
Tim Spring
Tony Jin
Lynn Bendixsen

Announcements

Indicio Meetup: How to use ACA-Py to issue and verify JSON-LD credentials
- Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 9 am PT / 10 am MT / 11 am CT / 12pm ET / 5pm UTC
- Register here
No Identity Implementers meeting December 29th

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

Main Identity WG
- Latest meeting: 2022-08-03
  - Identity in the Metaverse: Vipin Bharathan (dlt.nyc)

Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG
- 2022-11-08 Indy Contributors Call
  - Update on Sovrin Node pipeline
  - Getting Indy Node to past "RC" status
  - Update on indy-vdr issue with Genesis File/Node mismatch issue + plus tests
- DID Indy Method
  - Note: Effective April 26, 2022, this call has been merged into the bi-weekly Indy Contributors Meeting.
  - Dominic Wörner's Presentation and Demo of Indy VDR changes: 20220412 DID Indy - Indy-VDR Updates Overview.mp4
  - Daniel Bluhm's Presentation and Demo of Indy Node changes: 20220405 DID Indy - Indy-Node Updates Overview.mp4
  - Spec: https://hyperledger.github.io/indy-did-method/
  - Source: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-did-method

Hyperledger Aries
- Aries Working Group meetings:
  - 2022-11-02 Aries Working Group Call
    - Push Notifications
    - Error Reporting
    - Issue Credential v2.1 learning
    - Replacing Indy SDK
- Aries Bifold User Group (React Native & Typscript)
- Aries Cloud Agent Python User Group
  - 2022-11-15 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
    - Queues and Caches, Redis and Kafka, Mediators and Agents
    - Version 1.0.0.-rc1 has been released in all the normal places
- Aries Language Frameworks, Libraries, and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
- Tools (great for interoperability testing)
  - Aries Toolbox (v 0.1.0; active) https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-acapy-plugin-toolbox
  - Aries Protocol Test Suite (v 0.1.0; last update Jul 2019) - 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
- Next URSA Community Call:
  - Wednesday, November 23, 9am MT / 11am ET / 4pm UTC
  - https://zoom.us/j/99960811819?pwd=bVY1ZVFBdG9TVE4wOGQzbHF5ZFR1Zz09 Meeting ID: 999 6081 1819 Passcode: 985176
- 2022 Q3 Hyperledger Ursa
  - Project health: shaky but optimistic
  - No new maintainers or contributors have been added this quarter
  - Work continues on the security vulnerability mentioned in the last report
  - Code review and assessment of Ursa was completed this past quarter and published by the Digital Identity Lab of Canada (IDLab)
  - Hyperledger AnonCreds new project may increase focus and activity in Ursa

Trust Over IP Foundation
- Main site: https://trustoverip.org/
- Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation
- All Members Meeting
  - 28 October 2022: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2022-10-28+All+Members++Meeting+Notes
    - Slides
    - Recording
    - End of Year - Membership Upgrade Drive
- Steering Committee Meeting
  - 26 October, 2022: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2022-10-26+Steering+Committee+Plenary+Meeting+Notes
    - Slides
    - Strategic Direction of ToIP with guest presenters from Avast
      - TOIP Interoperability Certification Framework: A Proposal from Avast
- ToIP Working Groups:
  - Communications Committee: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Communications+Committee
    - 4 November, 2022 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2022-11-4+Communications+Committee+Meeting+Notes
      - Slides
      - BLOG Updates and Approvals
      - Website Update
      - Defining Digital Trust Ecosystems
  - Governance Stack
    - 3 Nov 2022 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2022-11-03+GSWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Update on the Governance Architecture Task Force
      - Discussion of the proposed ToIP Interoperability Certification Framework
  - Technology Stack Working Group
    - 31 October, 2022:https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2022-10-31+TSWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Recording https://zoom.us/rec/share/Ax6_tWnP9bc9YxWIiYrgYjUE1gv9rZ7MfckB2wOC2NpP7Nl4BMrp_TMq-UZK0RTu.Cjq4FddlOaqEnz0P
      - We are moving into the final stages of preparing the First Public Review Draft of the ToIP Technology Architecture Specification.
      - Drummond Reed is back from his next set of travels and will be focusing intensely this week on PRs that will address all the priority: high and priority: medium GitHub issues.
    - Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Technology+Stack+Working+Group
      - Core four deliverables: white paper, design principles, governance stack specification and technology specifications
      - Working on the ToIP Technology Architecture Specification
    - Special Topics Task Forces
  - Utility Foundry
    - 7 June 2022 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2022-06-7+Meeting+Page
      - Deliverable 1: Review Discussion -ToIP Layer 1 - Utility Foundry - Google Docs
      - Upcoming Guest Speaker June 21st 11am PDT, 2pm EDT, 8pm CEST (Hedera and the state of identity on distributed ledgers, Keith Kowal, Director of Product Management Swirlds Labs (Hedera))
  - Ecosystem Foundry
    - 10 November 2022 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+2022-11-10+Meeting
      - ToIP Governance Architecture Methodology
      - ToIP Ecosystem Components
  - Concepts and Terminology
    - 7 November 2022 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2022-11-07+CTWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Internet Identity Workshop sessions on concepts and terminology
      - Holder binding paper started at RWOT

DIF DIDComm Working Group

- Rolling Agenda: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm/blob/main/agenda.md
- Current Agenda: https://hackmd.io/pUsOUZa8QHKJTSgf5O6HfQ?both
- RFC Repository: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-messaging
- Update to WG: Meeting every 1st Monday of the month
- 31 October DIF DIDComm WG
  - Schedule Change
    - working?
    - Confusion over the off-week
    - Next week UG, Stick to the DIF Calendar after that.
    - Timezone anchoring (US/Pacific) - Sam to drive fix
  - Open Wallet DIDComm v2 library contributions?
    - Daniel?
    - light but steady use
    - python / jvm languages / rust / swift wrappers
    - Vlad at Sicpa
    - Repo location? - determine later.
DIF DIDComm Users Group
- Update: moving from un-sync to sync meetings
  - At the same timeslot at the DIDComm WG meetings, every 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Mondays of the month
- Held over Discord.
  - Invite: https://discord.gg/eNN4Wns6Jb
  - Format: https://hackmd.io/@dhh1128/Sk5_Gb2J9 Mailing list: https://lists.identity.foundation/g/didcomm-usergroup
  - Meetings: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-usergroup/tree/main/meetings
- 10 August 2022
  - Collaborate on Rich Chat paper?
- 27 July 2022 Meeting: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-usergroup/blob/main/meetings/2022-07-27.md
  - Protocol open PRs
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
- November 16: Cancelled for IIW
- November 2
  - Peter Langenkamp presenting about a cluster of interoperabilty centered on TNO EASSI.
    - https://eassi.ssi-lab.nl/
    - https://eassi.ssi-lab.nl/docs/about
Sovrin Foundation
- Technical Governance Board (TGB)
  - Rolling Agenda
  - 3 Feb 2022:
    - Status of the Indy Node / Sovrin Node updates of CI/CD and Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade.
    - Funding for work on a did:indy implementation - BC Gov competition
    - Creating an AnonCreds open specification.
- Steward Council
  - Rolling Agenda
  - 3 Feb 2022:
    - Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l9YDvridbpt6AVuHvM3C7aysYrWKIZRB-HPFk3MuuWk/edit#slide=id.g44af78d6af_0_16
    - SC meetings and TGB meetings to be held as a single meeting
- SSI & IOT Working Group
  - Charter: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eDLtqvXfeujQM6ecNKukjYZPmyWObKTg/view
  - Whitepaper: https://sovrin.org/wp-content/uploads/SSI-and-IoT-whitepaper.pdf
W3C Standard
- DID Working Group
  - Charter: https://www.w3.org/2020/12/did-wg-charter.html
  - Meetings: https://www.w3.org/2019/did-wg/
    - W3C Members are invited to join this Working Group. Individuals who wish to participate as Invited Experts (i.e., they do not represent a W3C Member) should refer to the policy for approval of Invited Experts. The group also welcomes non-Members to contribute technical submissions for consideration upon their agreement to the terms of the W3C Patent Policy.
  - 11 Feb 2022
    - https://www.w3.org/2019/did-wg/Meetings/Minutes/2022-02-11-did
    - DID Method: "did:id"
    - DID Method: "did:keri"
- Community Credentials Group
  - 15 November 2022
    - W3C CCG Traceability Call
Other?

Presentation

Ashok Ranadive: Demo: Interoperability between Hyperledger Fabric and Casper through Atomic Swap

Identity Special Interest Group