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

23 Mar 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
- 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
- 2023-03-14 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
  - Spec: https://hyperledger.github.io/indy-did-method/
  - Source: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-did-method

Hyperledger Aries
- Aries Working Group meetings:
  - 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
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
- 2023-03-13 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
- ToIP Working Groups:
  - 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)
  - Governance Stack
    - 23 March 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-03-23+GSWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Recording
      - Recap of Bhutan’s presentation on NFID
      - Summary of key points from Steering Committee Call
    - 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:
        Summary of challenges.
        Blogs/white papers
        New principles.
        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
    - 16 March 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+2023-03-16+Meeting+-+Bhutan
      - Meeting Deck
      - Presentation Deck
      - 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
  - Concepts and Terminology
    - 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
  - 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?

Identity Special Interest Group