2023-06-29: Identity Special Interest Group

Summary

On Today's Call:

Review: Working Group status updates
Presentation: Vipin Bharathan on the World Economic Forum paper: Reimagining Digital ID

Connection Info

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

Date

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

Call Recording: 06292023 Call Recording

Call starts at 14:15 in the YouTube livestream linked above

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Char Howland (Indicio, PBC) <char@indicio.tech>
Sean Bohan (Hyperledger) <sbohan@linuxfoundation.org>
Vipin Bharathan dlt.nyc
Alfonso Govela, Hyperledger Latinoamerica Regional Chapter <alfonsogovela@me.com>
Daniel Bachenheimer (Accenture) <daniel.bachenheimer@accenture.com>
Bret Michael Carptenter
Charles Lanahan
James Worthington
Tim Spring

Announcements

Upcoming speakers on the Identity SIG:
- July 13: Stephane Muoy on eIDAS2 and the European Wallet Initiative
- July 27: Dmitri Zagidulin on AI and SSI
- August 10: Nick Steele on Credential migration for wallets and credential providers
Call for papers
- https://www.springeropen.com/collections/tdispt
Hyperledger Aries Framework Javascript 0.4.0 Release, Setting Up an Agent and Issuing Credentials
- Join the Hyperledger Aries Framework Javascript community on July 11 for the workshop: Hyperledger Aries Framework Javascript 0.4.0 Release, Setting Up an Agent and Issuing Credentials. Presented by Ariel Gentile, Karim Stekelenburg and Berend Sliedrecht, this workshop will be an in-depth breakdown of what's new in Aries Framework Javascript 0.4.0 as well as an overview of implementation. If you are interested in #blockchain #DLT #HyperledgerAries #decentralizedidentity or #javascript, you should definitely attend.
- For more details: https://lf-hyperledger.atlassian.net/wiki/display/events/Hyperledger+Aries+Framework+Javascript+0.4.0+Release%2C+Setting+Up+an+Agent+and+Issuing+Credentials
- To register for this workshop: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqf-GgqD0tG9ZEblzG73MeWXS1yyLgv1kA#/registration
Running Hyperledger Aries in the Browser with Hyperledger AnonCreds
- July 18, 2023
- During this interactive session, we will deep-dive into the capabilities of Hyperledger Aries, an open-source project aimed at managing digital identities rooted in blockchain or other distributed ledger technology. Aries includes a shared cryptographic wallet for blockchain clients, along with a set of protocols for enabling decentralized identity. It offers tools, libraries, and reusable components for creating and using independent digital identities based on verifiable credentials, using the power of modern cryptography.
- https://www.meetup.com/hyperledger-madrid/events/294061900/

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG
- 2023-06-20 Indy Contributors Call
  - Indy Summit planning - just happened!
- 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:
  - 2023-06-28 Aries Working Group Call
    - Aries RFCs PRs – Let's Merge!
    - Aries Marketing Group Update
    - Mediators – update
    - did:peer progress
  - 2023-06-21 Aries Working Group Call
    - Marketing Update
    - Mediators!
    - did:peer status / unqualified migration
- 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
  - 2023-06-27 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
    - ACA-Py Release 0.8.2-rc1
    - Embedding AnonCreds Rust in ACA-Py – progress and plan.
    - Updating Aries Mediator Service given the open sourcing of Indicio's SocketDock
    - In progress - did:peer 2 and 3 support in ACA-Py
    - Crazy idea: ACA-Py Startup Parameters Editor
    - ACA-Py PRs – let's play "Can We Merge This?"!
- 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
    - 2023-06-22 Aries Framework JS Meeting notes
      - DIDComm v2 discussion
      - Open Wallet Foundation
      - Wallet API discussion continued
      - Documentation and getting started – continued
      - Revocation PR, other open issues/PRs
- 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
  - Celebration!! AnonCreds 0.1.0 Release finalized!
  - AnonCreds Workshop Report
  - Mentorship Update
  - AnonCreds Specification: Mixing overview/flow information with cryptographic details
  - New revocation approaches

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 15 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-06-15+GSWG+Meeting+Notes
      - ToIP glossary workspace
      - Governance Framework Demand Curve
    - Task Force:
      - Governance Architecture TF
  - Technology Stack Working Group
    - 21 June 2023: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-06-21+TSWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Updates from conferences (Consensus, EIC)
    - Special Topics Task Forces
      Technology Architecture TF — Wenjing Chu Drummond Reed
      - Report on the 3 remaining action items to reach the second public review draft:
        Use Cases. Good progress: a list of 25 canonical use cases has been proposed—see agenda item below.
        Glossary. Some progress on the ToIP Glossary Workspace. Major push planned for the first week of July.
        Third generation conceptual ToIP stack diagram. Slight progress. Will be the final task to finish.
      Trust Registry TF — Darrell O'Donnell Antti Kettunen
      - Proposals have started.
      - Andor Kesselman presented on June 15.
      - Mathieu Glaude is presenting on June 29.
      - Darrell O'Donnell is presenting on July 6.
      Trust Spanning Protocol TF — Drummond Reed Daniel Hardman
      - Sam Curren, co-chair of the DIF DIDComm WG, presented a proposed mapping of DIDComm V2 component to the ToIP stack (which may ideally evolve into "DIDComm V3").
      - Samuel Smith made a 2.25 hour presentation last week on his strawman abstract protocol. See the meeting minutes for the full recordings (listen to both NA/EU and APAC). Here are the slides
      - Our goal is a complete Working Draft (and implementation!) by IIW #37 (Oct 10-12)
      ACDC TF — Samuel Smith Phil Feairheller
      - progress, community is growing
      - demo of Qui Identity (https://qui.xyz/) (beta production use) - chaining (ACDC) at granular level
        claims as ACDX - and versioned (in tree/graph)
      - Edge client signing - typescript and python
      AI & Metaverse (AIM) Technology TF
      - No updates
    - Credential Exchange Protocol TF - Mathieu Glaude
      - Kickoff last week
  - 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
    - 22 June 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+2023-06-22+Meeting+-+AP+Cyber
      - Community Topics and Announcements
      - Digital Trust Survey
      - Digital Trust Ecosystem Components & Learning Pathways
      - AP Cyber Presentation
  - Concepts and Terminology
    - 19 June 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-06-19+CTWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Update on TEv2 progress
      - Review of the new TNO Party-Driven Actor model

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
  - Next meeting will be July 10th, rather than July 3rd
  - 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
  - 26 June Meeting:
    - Demo and protocols (Nick Reynolds and Ariel Gentile)
    - Socket dock
    - DIDComm Marketing
- 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
  - 27 June Meeting
    - Recording
    - Presentation by Meyer Mechanic (Founder at Vaultie): User Adoption and Interoperability

- 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
  - 21 June Meeting
    - Meeting recording
    - Discussion with Damian Glover and Daniel Fritz
  - 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.
  - https://www.w3.org/2019/did-wg/Meetings/Minutes/2022-02-11-did
    - DID Method: "did:id"
    - DID Method: "did:keri"
- Community Credentials Group
  - June 27: CCG Traceability Call
  - June 12: CCG Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force Call
Other?

Presentation

Vipin Bharathan on the World Economic Forum paper: Reimagining Digital ID