2023-06-15: Identity Special Interest Group

Summary

On Today's Call:

Review: Working Group status updates
Presentation: Stephan Curran (BCGov): Understanding Zero Knowledge Proofs with High School Math

Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/93003523877?pwd=Q3VvMnJ1N0lSUEZSc283SmFGRk9SQT09

Date

15 Jun 2023 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

Call Recording:

Call starts at 12:10 mins in the recording
Slides

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Vipin Bharathan
Char Howland (Indicio, PBC) <char@indicio.tech>
Sean Mouton
Sean Bohan
Tim Spring
Stephen Curran
Arun S M
Ayhan Koseoglu
Bree Blazicevic
Callum Haslam
Chris Raczkowski
Elisabeth Green
Hakan Yildiz
Hossein Namazian
James Kempf
Kyle Robinson
Maria Teresa Aarao
Marin Versic
Mengstu Fentaw
Michael Novac
Nancy Norris
Paz Gilboa
Sam Rookard
Siddhesh Naik
Thiru Moorthi

Announcements

Upcoming speakers on the Identity SIG:
- June 29: Nick Steele on Credential migration for wallets and credential providers
- July 13: Stephane Muoy on eIDAS2 and the European Wallet Initiative
- July 27: Dmitri Zagidulin on AI and SSI
Hyperledger In-depth with Red Date Technology: Universal Digital Payments Network launched to support regulated digital currency payments
- June 21st at 7:00pm HKT, SGT/ 1:00pm CEST/ 7:00am ET
- Register

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG
- 2023-06-06 Indy Contributors Call
  - Update on Sovrin Node pipeline
  - Discussion of Indy community contribution
- 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:
  - 2023-06-14 Aries Working Group Call
    - OWF Resolution
    - did:peer status / unqualified migration
    - Open Discussion
  - 2023-06-07 Aries Working Group Call
    - OWF Presentation
    - Open Discussion
- Aries Bifold User Group (React Native & Typscript)
  - - 2023-06-06 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting
      - Bifold Update;
      - Planned Work;
      - Discussion of Issues or PRs
  - Discord: https://discord.com/channels/905194001349627914/941708242030063656
- Aries Cloud Agent Python User Group
  - 2023-06-13 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
    - Update and Demo of BC Gov CWU – anoncreds-rs library in ACA-Py - Indicio
    - Content for 0.8.2 final (or perhaps 0.9.0 final)
    - ACA-Py PRs – let's play "Can We Merge This?"!
    - ACA-Py Plugins – Update on progress/plans
    - Adding a new Maintainer – Jason Sherman
    - 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
    - 2023-06-01 Aries Framework JS Meeting notes
      - Future of Aries
      - Future architecture of Aries Framework JavaScript
      - Getting started with AFJ
    - 2023-05-18 Aries Framework JS Meeting notes
      - Status update on Shared components
      - Presentation: Future architecture of Aries Framework JavaScript
- 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
- EOL (End of Life): https://github.com/hyperledger/ursa/pull/233
  - This repository has been archived by the owner on May 30, 2023. It is now read-only.

Hyperledger AnonCreds
- 2023-06-19 AnonCreds Specification Working Group Meeting
  - NEW ZOOM LINK!!!
  - Celebration!! AnonCreds 0.1.0 Release finalized!
  - AnonCreds Workshop Report
  - Mentorship Update
  - Patrick St-Louis about AnonCreds with did:web and CHAPI
  - Perhaps: AnonCreds Specification: To Do List
  - 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
- 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
    - June 1 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-06-01+GSWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Data models, standards etc - working through interesting supply chain questions using UN standards
    - Task Force:
      - Governance Architecture TF
  - Technology Stack Working Group
    - 24 May 2023: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-05-24+TSWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Updates from conferences (Consensus, EIC)
    - Special Topics Task Forces
      Technology Architecture TF — Wenjing Chu Drummond Reed
      - Continued discussion of the third-generation ToIP stack conceptual diagram. This continues to be a key tool for communicating overall ToIP architecture, especially for eIDAS 2.0.
      - Progress on the ToIP Glossary Workspace slowed during this travel month, but should pick up again in June. Our goal is a complete alpha version by the end of June.
      Trust Registry TF — Darrell O'Donnell Antti Kettunen
      - It has largely concluded the requirements phase and is moving into the proposal stage, which should start in June.
      Trust Spanning Protocol TF — Drummond Reed Daniel Hardman
      - Our May 3 meeting was a fascinating Terminology Design Workshop which helped everyone understand the importance of terminology work.
      - The third TSP Workshop was very productive. The final result was consensus that we need a multi-layer approach.
      ACDC TF — Samuel Smith Phil Feairheller
      - Samuel Smith shared the they have created a permissionless directory of ACDC schema that will track the SAID of the schema.
      - Kevin Griffin reported that the TF is still in an active dialog with W3C VC WG.
      AI & Metaverse (AIM) Technology TF
      - Discussion of biometrics
  - 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
    - 27 April 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+2023-04-27+Meeting+-+MOBI
      - Meeting Deck
  - Concepts and Terminology
    - 05 June 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-06-05+CTWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Update on TEv2 progress
      - Report on Trust Decision workflow
      - Next steps on ToIP Glossary Workspace

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
  - 5 June 2023 https://hackmd.io/pUsOUZa8QHKJTSgf5O6HfQ?view#Meeting---5-June-2023---1500-ET
    - DIDComm v2.1 - ION compatiblity
      - needs completion as approved.
    - Marketing DIDComm
      - Primarily a UG effort
    - TSP Discussions

- 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
  - 22 May Meeting:
    - creating a DIDComm group chat
    - chess protocol
    - validation of DID that are updated into the Mediator
- 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
  - Meeting recordings
  - 17 May
    - Recording

- 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
  - 24 May Meeting
    - Meeting recording
  - 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
  - 30 May 2023
    - W3C CCG Call
  - 28 April 2023
    - Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force Call
Other?

Presentation

Stephan Curran (BCGov): Understanding Zero Knowledge Proofs with High School Math