2023-07-27: Identity Special Interest Group

Summary

On Today's Call:

Review: Working Group status updates
Presentation: Generative AI + SSI: Threats and Opportunities - Dmitri Zagidulin (MIT)

Connection Info

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

Date

27 Jul 2023 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

Call Recording:

Presentation Slides:

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Char Howland (Indicio PBC) <char@indicio.tech>
Sean Bohan (Hyperledger) <sbohan@linuxfoundation.org>
Daniel Bachenheimer (Accenture) <daniel.bachenheimer@accenture.com>
Dmitri Zagidulin (MIT / DCC) <dzagidulin@gmail.com>
Tim Bloomfield (OPS) <tim.bloomfield@ontario.ca>
Vipin Bharathan (vip@dlt.nyc)
Alfonso Govela
Sam Rookard (Accenture) <samuel.rookard@accenture.com>

Announcements

Upcoming speakers on the Identity SIG:
- August 10: Nick Steele on Credential migration for wallets and credential providers
Hyperledger in-depth webinar with Infosys on August 24th at 1:00pm ET | 10:00am PT | 7:00pm CET.
- Register
- Join Infosys, a Hyperledger member, for an insightful webinar on the future role of governments as blockchains go mainstream. Learn how government agencies worldwide are adopting emerging technologies and shifting to digital-native citizen services. We are honored to have Liz Tanner, Honorable Secretary of Commerce for Rhode Island, share her vision and experiences in driving transformation. Explore opportunities for governments to achieve digital, decentralized, and secure citizen experiences.
Q3 Editorial Campaign is #HyperledgerIdentity. We will be doing an extra communications push around all things related to Hyperledger identity tech, SSI, VCs etc. What can you do? Send us content to promote! The content you submit will be queued throughout the quarter for us to push on our social channels with the hashtag #HyperledgerIdentity. We would also appreciate any engagement with our promotion once it is live. You can submit content by emailing pr@hyperledger.org
Animo recently announce, Making Aries Framework Javascript a Global Framework. It is a call for sponsors and partners to make it easy to build EU suitable applications with Aries Framework JavaScript. Find out more here
Lissi recently announced the new messaging feature for the Lissi Agent and Wallet. Find out more here.

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG
- 2023-07-18 Indy Contributors Call
  - Recap of Indy Summit – Presentation and links to the Summit recording and sessions.
  - Is it time to deprecate/archive the Indy SDK? – Presentation
- 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:
  - 2023-07-26 Aries Working Group Call
    - Aries Marketing Update
    - Aries Endorser Service – Generalizing the Service
    - Aries RFC Pull Requests
  - 2023-07-19 Aries Working Group Call
    - Aries Marketing Update:
    - Overview: Aries VCX
    - Status of Indy SDK
- Aries Bifold User Group (React Native & Typscript)
  - - 2023-07-18 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
  - 2023-07-25 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
    - ACA-Py Release 0.9.0
    - Update: Deprecating the Indy SDK
    - The --auto flags – what to do about them?
    - Addressing the Marshmallow warnings
    - PRs and Other Issues
- New meeting: Aries Cloud Agent Python Maintainers Meeting
  - Focused on current PRs, planned PRs, and Release Management. ACA-Pug will continue to focus on initiatives in the community, with demos and presentations from members from User Group members.
  - Calendar info
  - 2023-07-18 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Maintainers Meeting
    - PR Review
    - Open Discussion
- 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
    - 2023-07-20 Aries Framework JS Meeting notes
      - Migration to new Askar / AnonCreds / Indy VDR
      - Deprecating the Indy SDK
      - moving to a bi-weekly call?
    - 2023-07-06 Aries Framework JS Meeting notes
      - Aries Bifold (Aries Bifold User Group Meetings)
      - Making changes to scanning logic and adding goal codes
      - Adding concept of ephemeral connection, make QR code smaller when using connectionless proof request
      - Discussion on peer did migration
- 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
- 2023-07-17 AnonCreds Specification Working Group Meeting
  - PRs to Review
  - AnonCreds in W3C Format – proposal for the API

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/
    - 6 June 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-06-09+Communications+Committee+Meeting+Notes
      - BLOG Updates and Approvals
      - NIST 800-63-4 ToIP Comments Update
      - LF Digital Trust Initiative Update
      - Event participation updates and discussion of new proposals
  - Governance Stack
    - 13 July 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-07-13+GSWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Changing plenary meeting cadence to monthly
      - Trust Registry Presentation Governance
        Asking for feedback on the document
    - Task Force:
      - Governance Architecture TF
  - Technology Stack Working Group
    - 19 July 2023: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-07-19+TSWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Task for reports
    - Special Topics Task Forces
      Technology Architecture TF — Wenjing Chu Drummond Reed
      - The primary progress has been on the ToIP Glossary Workspace. Drummond said that it currently has ~200 terms, with only four currently still required definitions. The next steps are:
        Complete the remaining TODO definitions.
        Identify any other terms missing from final or draft ToIP specifications or white papers.
        Identify any terms for which consensus on the distinguishing criteria is particularly important and assign those to the relevant WGs or TFs.
        Consolidate all the definitions into our standard glossary format.
        Ingest the glossary into our TEv2 (Terminology Engine v2) tooling when ready.
      Trust Registry TF — Darrell O'Donnell Antti Kettunen Andor Kesselman
      - 3 proposals were made and recorded.
        Andor Kesselman presented on June 15. Focus was at DID Document level to allow for discovery and integration via "Profiles"
        Mathieu Glaude presented on June 29. Introduced a "Trust Input Protocol" concept that covers a future generic protocol that the Trust Registry Protocol should fit under.
        Darrell O'Donnell presented on July 6. Focused on interaction with existing systems-of-record that fill the role of "trust registry" and standardizing that interaction. This was essentially a new version of the first-generation protocol.
      - The first meeting on consolidation of the proposals was last week
      Trust Spanning Protocol TF — Drummond Reed Wenjing Chu Samuel Smith
      - We hope to arrive at a consolidated strawman by early August.
      - Our goal is a complete Working Draft (and implementation!) by IIW #37 (Oct 10-12).
      ACDC TF — Samuel Smith Phil Feairheller
      - Phil said the TF is continuing to refine the ACDC spec sections covering graduated disclosure.
      - They have recently completed a digital authorization and signing POC in Europe.
      AI & Metaverse (AIM) Technology TF Wenjing Chu
      - Neil Thomson reported that the group is revisiting its charter given the steady growth of the space.
    - Credential Exchange Protocol TF - Mathieu Glaude
      - Mathieu reported that the group is working to complete its analysis of four issuance protocols and four presentation protocols.
      - They have been spending the last few weeks developing criteria for evaluating the protocols.
      - They are taking a hiatus for the next two weeks, then planning to finish a first version by roughly the end of August.
  - 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
    - 6 July 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+2023-07-06+Meeting
      - Ecosystem Components
      - Recording
  - Concepts and Terminology
    - 17 July 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-07-17+CTWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Update on TEv2 progress
      - Update on the ACDC and Web of Trust (WoT) Glossary
      - Update on the new TNO Party-Driven Actor model
      - Update on the ToIP Glossary Workspace 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
  - 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
  - 10 July Meeting
    - Demo of a DIDComm Invitation Service from James Ebert
    - What DIDComm Out of It? Analysis and Improvements of DIDComm Messaging from Jesus Diaz Vico
      - Slides
- 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
  - 19 July 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.
  - https://www.w3.org/2019/did-wg/Meetings/Minutes/2022-02-11-did
    - DID Method: "did:id"
    - DID Method: "did:keri"
- Community Credentials Group
  - July 24: CCG Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force Call with Dmitri Zagidulin
  - July 12: CCG Traceability Call
Other?

Presentation

Generative AI + SSI: Threats and Opportunities - Dmitri Zagidulin (MIT)
- Slides

Recording:

https://youtube.com/live/dX9Ylh0W_5c