2023-01-12: Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

On Today's Call:

Review: Working Group status updates
Presentation: Michael Herman (Trusted Digital Web): Web 7.0

Connection Info

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

Date

12 Jan 2023 4PM UTC, 8AM PST, 9AM MST, 11AM EST

Call Recording: 20230112-Hyperledger-Identity-Implementers-WG

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Announcements

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
- 2023-01-03 Indy Contributors Call
  - Sovrin Node build
  - Transition of indy-node from RC to final
  - About 2/3 of the way through branch comparisons of the main indy-node portion
- 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:
  - 2023-01-11 Aries Working Group Call
    - OCA update
    - Mediator race conditions
    - peer did methods
    - AIP 3 tasks
- Aries Bifold User Group (React Native & Typscript)
  - 2023-01-03 Aries Bifold Users Group Community MeetingRecent work
    - - Looking to update the Bifold wallet to AFJ 0.3.1
      - Bifold Summit Planning
      - Newer Features
        Credential branding might change
  - Discord: https://discord.com/channels/905194001349627914/941708242030063656
- Aries Cloud Agent Python User Group
  - 2023-01-10 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
    - Update on BC Gov Code With Us – ACA-Py Indy-SDK to Askar conversion script - Indicio
    - Progress/discussion on Ledger-Agnostic AnonCreds
    - ACA-Py 1.0 Discussion/Priorities, including an ACA-Py Documentation site
    - Open Discussion
- 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
    - 2023-01-03 Framework Go Weekly Planning
      - Work updates (from the previous week)
        SD-JWT
  - Aries-Framework JavaScript
    - 2023-01-05 Aries Framework JS Meeting notes
      - DDD, Hexagonal, Onion, Clean, CQRS, … How I put it all together
      - Aries Framework JavaScript Tutorials by Timo
      - DIDComm meeting
      - Update on JSON-LD presentation format
      - Aries Bifold Summit architecture discussion is happening next Tue and follow up after AFJ on Thu
- 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
- 2023-01-09 AnonCreds Specification Working Group Meeting
  - Several PRs
  - Revocation Interval
  - Update on prover_did?
  - Progress on the anoncreds_rs implementation
  - Open Discussion
- 2022-12-19 AnonCreds Specification Working Group Meeting
  - Issue 102: AnonCreds object signed by the key of the publisher
  - Latest with AnonCreds W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model Standard
  - Update on prover_did?
  - Progress on the anoncreds_rs implementation
  - Open Discussion

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/2023-01-12+GSWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Update on developments in the Technology Stack WG
      - Report from the Governance Architecture Task Force
  - Technology Stack Working Group
    - 12 January 2022: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2022-12-12+TSWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Nomination and Voting for GSWG Chair and Co-Chair
      - Effect of Technology Reference Architecture on Governance
      - Blog post: https://trustoverip.org/blog/2023/01/05/the-toip-trust-spanning-protocol/
    - 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
    - 5 January 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+2023-01-05+Meeting
      - EFWG Community Topics & Announcements
      - iDatafy: The Evolving Consumption of Digital Credentials
  - Concepts and Terminology
    - 19 December 2022 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2022-12-19+CTWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Progress on the Terminology Toolbox 2.0 (aka TEv2)
      - Terminology Development Process
      - Trust Registry TF 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

Michael Herman (Trusted Digital Web): Web 7.0
- Slides: https://hyperonomy.com/2023/01/12/hyperledger-identity-implementers-wg-january-12-2023/

Identity Special Interest Group