2023-03-09: Identity Implementers WG Call

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

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

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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

• 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)

• 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?