2023-03-09: Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

Connection Info

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

Date

09 Mar 2023 4PM UTC, 8AM PST, 9AM MST, 11AM EST

Call Recording: 20230309 Hyperledger Identity Implementers WG.mp4

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Lynn Gray Bendixsen (Indicio, PBC) <lynn@indicio.tech>

Char Howland (Indicio, PBC) <char@indicio.tech>

Sam Curren (Indicio, PBC) <sam@indicio.tech>

Tim Spring

Tim Bloomfield

Announcements

• NIST Digital Identity Guidelines (SP 800-63-4): not SSI-friendly
  • Encouraging community members to make comments on the draft 
    • Follow the above link to the comment template
    • Comments must be submitted by email to dig-comments@nist.gov by March 24, 2023
  • Trust Spanning Protocol TF
  • Slides (Daniel Bachenheimer)

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
  • 2023-02-28 Indy Contributors Call
    • Update on Sovrin Node pipeline
    • Transition of indy-node from RC to final - branch comparisons
  • 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:
    • 2023-03-08 Aries Working Group Call
      • Peer DID Updates
      • PR/Issue Review
      • OCA Next Steps
    • 2023-03-01 Aries Working Group Call
      • LegacyPeer No More - Transition to a selected DID method
  • Aries Bifold User Group (React Native & Typscript)
    • • 2023-02-28 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting
        • Review PR 635 to update maintainers;
        • Review PR 641 to restructure repo;
        • Open Wallet Foundation kick off presentation
    • Discord: https://discord.com/channels/905194001349627914/941708242030063656
  • Aries Cloud Agent Python User Group
    
    • 2023-03-07 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
      • Update on BC Gov Code With Us – ACA-Py Indy-SDK to Askar conversion script - Indicio - Last One!
      • Update on BC Gov CWU – anoncreds-rs library in ACA-Py - Indicio - First One!
      • VC-Authn OIDC V2.0 – Plans and Progress
  • 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 JavaScript
      • 2023-03-02 Aries Framework JS Meeting notes
        
        • Cardano AnonCreds implementation in AFJ demo
        • AnonCreds & Shared Components
        • AFJ 0.4.0 - What's changed, what's new?
        • How to integrate other ledgers into AFJ
  • 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
  • 2023-02-13 AnonCreds Specification Working Group Meeting
    • Checkin: anoncreds-rs implementation progress, requests
    • PRs for review and merging
    • Issues to Discuss – notably, issues that are ready to be closed.

• Trust Over IP Foundation
  • Main site:  https://trustoverip.org/ 
  • Wiki:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation 
  • All Members Meeting
    • 15 February 2023: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-02-15+All+Members++Meeting+Notes
      • Slides
      • Working group updates
  • Steering Committee Meeting
    • 22 February 2023: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-02-22+Steering+Committee+Discussion+Meeting+Notes
      • Slides
      • Recording

      • Special Topic Speaker - Daniel Bachenheimer - NIST 800-63-4 

  • ToIP Working Groups:
    • Communications Committee:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Communications+Committee
      
      • All blogs: https://trustoverip.org/about/news/ 
      • 10 February 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-02-10+Communications+Committee+Meeting+Notes
        • Design Principle BLOGs
        • Open Wallet Quote for PR
        • Questions for Steering Committee Testimonials
        • Recording
    • Governance Stack
      
      • 9 February 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-02-09+GSWG+Meeting+Notes
        • Recording
        • Update on Governance Task Forces: Trust Spanning Protocol TF and the Trust Registry TF
        • Update on ToIP Governance Design Planning document
      • Task Force:
        • Governance Architecture TF
    • Technology Stack Working Group
      • 1 March 2023: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-03-01+TSWG+Meeting+Notes
        • Task force reports
        • TSWG Term Wiki
        • Updating our conceptual diagram of the ToIP stack
      • Special Topics Task Forces
        

        Technology Architecture TF — Wenjing Chu  Drummond Reed

        • Proposed goal would be to publish public review draft #2 by IIW (April 18-20)
          
          • Glossary — Drummond intends to put in time on this in March
          • Use cases — needs a volunteer to drive it to closure
          • Revised conceptual diagram of the ToIP stack <== see topic below

        Trust Registry TF — Darrell O'Donnell Antti Kettunen  

        • Discussing trust registry specification and contextual trust decision protocol

        Trust Spanning Protocol TF — Drummond Reed Daniel Hardman

        • 3 proposals already made, with a fourth published but not yet presented. Links to the Github Discussions for each:
          • Proposal #1: Sam Smith
          • Proposal #2: Daniel Hardman
          • Proposal #3: Wenjing Chu
          • Proposal #4: Michael Herman

        ACDC TF — Samuel Smith Phil Feairheller 

        • GLEIF joined the W3C in order to influence the direction of the W3C Verifiable Credentials 2.0 Working Group.
        • The Miami F2F meeting last week resulted in a decision that other non JSON-LD representations of verifiable credentials could be officially recognized as a W3C VC-compliant format.

        AI & Metaverse (AIM) Technology TF

        • The main work is falling into these areas:
          1. Summary of challenges.
          2. Blogs/white papers
          3. New principles.
          4. New recommendations.
    • Utility Foundry
      • Hiatus
        • Group members have joined with the Governance Architecture task force 
      • Last meeting: 7 June 2022
        • Deliverable 1: Review Discussion -ToIP Layer 1 - Utility Foundry - Google Docs 
    • Ecosystem Foundry
      • 2 March 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+2023-03-02+Meeting+-+TODA%7CQ
        • Meeting Recording
        • EFWG 2023 Introductions
        • EFWG Community Topics & Announcements
        • Presentation: TODA/Q
    • Concepts and Terminology
      • 13 February 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-02-13+CTWG+Meeting+Notes
        • Mental Model Development Process
        • ToIP member Brian Richter has accepted the bounty to develop the open source code for TEv2

• Decentralized Identity Foundation
  • 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
    • 6 March 2023
      • April 2023 IIW DIDComm v2 interop-a-thon hackmd
        • https://hackmd.io/j6U6JpQ2SRexSUKL7i2XRg
      • Ion Compatibility: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-messaging/issues/410
      • Transport PRs
      • OOB Invitation PR

• • 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
    • Meeting notes on discord channel: https://discord.com/channels/900385725462229022/911224279885033533
    • 20 February Meeting:
      • Updating the didcomm.org guidebook
  • 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
    • 8 March
      • Recording
      • Presentation from Ryan Wisneky on Rapid Data Warehousing

• • IoT Special Interest Group
    • DIF Steering Committee approved the creation of an IoT Special Interest Group
    • Participating in the IoT SIG does not require being a member of DIF so anyone who is interested is welcome
    • Sign up for the mailing list: https://lists.identity.foundation/g/IoT-SIG
    • 1 March 2023 Meeting
      • Recording
      • Use case: asset-based carbon reporting
    • Meeting recordings
    • Discord channel

• 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
    • 28 February 2023
      
      • W3C CCG Traceability Call

      • Verifiable Credentials API Call

• Other?

Presentation

Future Topics