2023-03-23: Identity Implementers WG Call
Summary
On Today's Call:
Review: Working Group status updates
Connection Info
The call takes place over Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91329633752?pwd=elFrVUhOY3lybmRMMEtLS2MwMFNNdz09
Date
Mar 23, 2023 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT
Call Recording: 20230323 Call Recording
Welcome/Introductions
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Attendees
@Lynn Gray Bendixsen (Indicio, PBC) <lynn@indicio.tech>
@Tim Spring (Indicio, PBC) <tim@indicio.tech>
Announcements
IIW: April 18-20
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
Working Group Reports and Release Plans
Latest meeting: 2022-08-03
Identity in the Metaverse: Vipin Bharathan (dlt.nyc)
Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG
2023-03-14 Indy Contributors Call
Update on Sovrin Node pipeline
Transition of indy-node from RC to final - branch comparisons
Discussion: Running an Indy network
In preparation for Roadmap discussion on 3/28
Open Discussion
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
Hyperledger Aries
2023-03-22 Aries Working Group Call
URL Based OCA Hosting
2023-03-15 Aries Working Group Call
Peer DID Updates
OCA Next Steps
IssueCredential 2.1 issues
PR/Issue Review
Aries Bifold User Group (React Native & Typscript)
2023-03-14 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting
Review PR 652 to update maintainers;
Review PR 649 to add verifier abilities;
What's new in Au? Learn more about Australia's mobile identity solution (at least in one region);
Being mindfull of disinformation in the Digital ID space;
Update to AFJ 0.4.x;
Creating an AFJ mediator to keep alongside the ACA-py version;
First work on new repo design will be to break out OCA into an NPM package.
Discord: https://discord.com/channels/905194001349627914/941708242030063656
Aries Cloud Agent Python User Group
2023-03-21 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
Update on BC Gov CWU – anoncreds-rs library in ACA-Py - Indicio
ACA-Py Plugins Reimagined
ACA-Py Releases
ACA-Py Kubernetes Throttling
Discussion Topics
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
2023-03-16 Aries Framework JS Meeting notes
Releases
AFJ 0.4.0-alpha releases (74)
DIDComm v2
Aries Interop Profile 3.0 continues to be discussed https://hackmd.io/_Kkl9ClTRBu8W4UmZVGdUQ
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
Open invitation for a maintainer or contributor to take over running the call
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
2023-03-13 AnonCreds Specification Working Group Meeting
TIME CHANGE IN EUROPE – Call is one hour earlier than normal – 7:00 Pacific / 15:00 Central Europe
Update on the AnonCreds V2.0 Working Group
Hyperledger AnonCreds Workshop?
Question: The new Revocation Interface for Indy Ledgers – process? Working?
PRs
Issues to discuss
Checkin: anoncreds-rs implementation progress, requests
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
15 March 2023: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-03-15+All+Members++Meeting+Notes
AntiTrust Laws Training:
Ecosystem Foundry Guest Speaker
Interaction Patterns Task Force
Communications Committee - call for participants
Guest Speaker: Liz Tanner, Secretary of Commerce, State of Rhode Island - Rhode Island leads on digital identity
Steering Committee Meeting
8 March 2023: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-03-08+Steering+Committee+Plenary+Meeting+Notes
EFWG - Research Project (10 min)
Digital Trust Initiative
Communications Committee: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Communications+Committee
All blogs: https://trustoverip.org/about/news/
10 March 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-03-10+Communications+Committee+Meeting+Notes
BLOG Updates and Approvals:
NIST 800-63-4 ToIP Comments and Unified Decentralized Identity cover:
LF Digital Trust Initiative (a marketing initiative) content development (15 min)
23 March 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-03-23+GSWG+Meeting+Notes
Recap of Bhutan’s presentation on NFID
Summary of key points from Steering Committee Call
Task Force:
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:
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:
Summary of challenges.
Blogs/white papers
New principles.
New recommendations.
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
16 March 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+2023-03-16+Meeting+-+Bhutan
Why SSI instead of PKI?
Convincing the government about the risks and concerns of having a centralized database with lots of people accessing it was a lot of work
13 March 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-03-13+CTWG+Meeting+Notes
Update on TEv2 progress
Update on Technology Stack WG Glossary progress
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
April 2023 IIW DIDComm v2 interop-a-thon hackmd
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
Wiki: https://www.notion.so/Interoperability-WG-a42995c37e2a4511a10aea96cdbccc38
Rolling agenda: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/interoperability/blob/master/agenda.md
8 March
Presentation from Ryan Wisneky on Rapid Data Warehousing
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
Use case: asset-based carbon reporting
W3C Standard
DID Working Group
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
Verifiable Credentials API Call
Other?
Presentation
Future Topics