2022-12-01: Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

On Today's Call:

Review: Working Group status updates
Presentation: Kyle Robinson (B.C. Gov Energy & Mines Digital Trust): Digital Credentials for Organizational Identities in the Natural Resource Sector

Connection Info

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

Date

01 Dec 2022 4PM UTC, 8AM PST, 9AM MST, 11AM EST

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Kyle Robinson
Stephen Curran
Martin Burke
Sandy Aggarwal
Gabriel Marquie
Lynn Bendixsen
Keith Kowal
Tony Jin
Char Howland
Tim Spring
Tony Jin
Daniel Bachenheimer
Sam Curren
Sean Bohan

Announcements

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
- 2022-11-22 Indy Contributors Call
  - Update on Sovrin Node pipeline
  - Help getting Indy Node to past "RC" status
  - Update on indy-vdr issue with Genesis File/Node mismatch issue + plus tests
  - Eliminate the indy-sdk initiative
- 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:
  - 2022-11-30 Aries Working Group Call
    - iOS Aries libraries
    - DIDComm v2 Interop Targets
    - Fully Qualified DIDs
- Aries Bifold User Group (React Native & Typscript)
- Aries Cloud Agent Python User Group
  - 2022-11-29 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
    - Traction and ACA-Py Plugins
    - A Lightweight Alternative to DIDComm and OpenID4 VPs?
    - Additional security controls for webhooks for multi-tenancy
    - Open Discussion
- 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
- Meeting Recordings
- 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
    - 28 November 2022:https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2022-11-28+TSWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Recording https://zoom.us/rec/share/Ax6_tWnP9bc9YxWIiYrgYjUE1gv9rZ7MfckB2wOC2NpP7Nl4BMrp_TMq-UZK0RTu.Cjq4FddlOaqEnz0P
      - Internet Identity Workshop #35 highlights
      - Next steps for the Technology Architecture Task Force
    - 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
    - 21 November 2022 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2022-11-21+CTWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Discuss Terminology Toolbox 2.0 bounty with Brian Richter
      - Answer Nicky Hickman's glossary linking questions
      - Planning for usage of Terminology Toolbox 2.0

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
  - Meetings: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-usergroup/tree/main/meetings
- 23 November 2022: https://hackmd.io/-6dVeUcCR4KWMKvquoPVtQ
  - Crossposting Aries-DIDCommV2
  - Basic test/interop agent (lambda based?)
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

Kyle Robinson (B.C. Gov Energy & Mines Digital Trust): Digital Credentials for Organizational Identities in the Natural Resource Sector

Identity Special Interest Group