2022-12-15: Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

On Today's Call:

Review: Working Group status updates
Presentation: Dominik Zyskowski (Espeo Blockchain): Settlement of referrals on the blockchain

Connection Info

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

Date

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

Call Recording:

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Char Howland (Indicio PBC) <char@indicio.tech>
Kyle Robinson (Briartech/BC Gov) kyle.robinson@briartech.ca

Announcements

No Identity Implementers meeting December 29th
- Next Identity Implementers call is January 12
BC Gov Code With Us opportunities – Transitioning to the Indy/Aries Shared Components

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
- 2022-12-06 Indy Contributors Call
  - Update on Sovrin Node pipeline
  - Steps in eliminating the Indy SDK
  - Transition of indy-node from RC to final
- 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:
  - 2022-12-14 Aries Working Group Call
    - Fully Qualified DIDs
    - AIP 3.0: Draft
- Aries Bifold User Group (React Native & Typscript)
  - 2022-12-06 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting
    - Recent work
      - Disable developer mode;
      - Fix all unit tests;
      - Misc technical debt cleanup;
      - Check for ledger accessibility (firewall issue);
      - Minor UI fixes and enhancements
  - Discord: https://discord.com/channels/905194001349627914/941708242030063656
- Aries Cloud Agent Python User Group
  - 2022-12-13 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
    - Persistent Queues, Caching, Redis and Horizontal ACA-Py Scaling
    - Persistent Queues, Caching, Redis and Horizontal Mediator Scaling
    - Drawing
- 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 0.3.4 https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
      - indy-shared-rs - indy-credx release 0.3.1 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
    - 2022-12-13 Framework Go Weekly Planning
      - Work updates
        universal wallet enhancements
        VDR enhancements
        JWT signing
  - Aries-Framework JavaScript
    - 2022-12-08 Aries Framework JS Meeting notes
      - DIDComm v2
        Jakub will do review
        wait for 0.3.0 release
        Timo final review
      - Issue credential JSON-LD and 0.3.0 release
      - Test harness backchannel testing knowledge sharing
        https://github.com/2060-io/aries-agent-test-harness/commits/feat/upgrade-backchannel
- 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
- 7 December 2022
  - Open invitation for a maintainer or contributor to take over running the call
- 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)
    - Only relatively minor issues identified
  - Hyperledger AnonCreds new project may increase focus and activity in Ursa

Hyperledger AnonCreds
- 12 Dec 2022: 2022-12-12 AnonCreds Specification Working Group Meeting
  - Revocation Registry List Data Model
  - Validation of Identifiers - specification vs. implementation
  - What is the "prover_did" data item?
  - Checkin: anoncreds-rs implementation progress, requests
- 5 Dec 2022: 2022-12-05 AnonCreds Specification Working Group Meeting
  - Discussion of Mike Lodder's proposals from last week and paper posted this week
    - Discussion of what an AnonCreds 2.0 might look like based on the work Mike has done.
  - Request for work on the specification – especially the cryptographic elements

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
  - 7 Dec 2022: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2022-12-7+Steering+Committee+Plenary+Meeting+Notes
    - Recording
  - 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
    - 1 Dec 2022 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2022-12-01+GSWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Update on developments in the Technology Stack WG
      - Report from the Governance Architecture Task Force
  - Technology Stack Working Group
    - 12 December 2022: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2022-12-12+TSWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Task force reports
        Technology Architecture TF
        Trust Registry TF
      - Q1 planning
    - 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
    - 8 December 2022 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+2022-12-08+Meeting
      - EFWG Community Topics & Announcements
      - Entidad: Digital Trust Ecosystem for Farm Worker Services
  - Concepts and Terminology
    - 5 December 2022 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2022-12-05+CTWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Game plan for ToIP Technology Architecture V1.0 Specification glossary

DIF DIDComm Spec 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
- 5 December 2022
  - Post IIW Observations
  - Work in front of us
  - Group Management
    - How does this spec group support?
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
- 12 December 2022 (Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82237827854?pwd=Q3gwakxaWnc2ZjkyTXZrcUYzVW0xUT09)
  - Pavel's presentation on rich chat
  - Nick's libp2p extension for DIDComm
  - Michael - web 7
  - Lance - activity in the Aries DIDCommV2 working group, the DIDComm v2 survey, the DIDComm v1 to v2 RFC, the movement to get more live DIDComm v2 test services out in the wild, a DIDComm v2 test harness, and updates to the DIDCommV2 guidebook
  - peer did PR by Stephen (https://github.com/decentralized-identity/peer-did-method-spec/pull/48)
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
- 14 December
  - Recording
  - Presentation from Sharon Leu from Jobs for the Future Foundation

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
  - 6 December 2022
    - W3C CCG Traceability Call
Other?

Presentation

Dominik Zyskowski (Espeo Blockchain): Settlement of referrals on the blockchain

Identity Special Interest Group