2023-08-24: Identity Special Interest Group

Summary

On Today's Call:

Review: Working Group status updates
Presentation: Tram Vo: Cross-Industry Business Automation: Building the New Economy of Movement

Connection Info

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

Date

24 Aug 2023 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

Call Recording:

https://youtube.com/live/jz4UXv5lfGI

Presentation Slides:

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Char Howland (Indicio PBC) <char@indicio.tech>
Sean Bohan (Hyperledger) sbohan@linuxfoundation.org
Tim Bloomfield (OPS) tim.bloomfield@ontario.ca
Vipin Bharathan dlt.nyc

Announcements

Hyperledger in-depth webinar with Infosys on August 24th at 1:00pm ET | 10:00am PT | 7:00pm CET.
- Register
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Second Hyperledger Indy Summit: September 7, 2023
- This event is a gathering for the entire community to talk about the current and future state of Indy
- To find out more, register here.
IIW Planning
- Who is going? What topics / goals do we have for this October's IIW? See thread in Discord/Mailing List

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG
- 2023-08-15 Indy Contributors Call
  - Second Hyperledger Indy Ecosystem Summit
  - did:indy Indy VDR code is being merged into main
- 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:
  - 2023-08-23 Aries Working Group Call
    - DID Rotation
  - 2023-08-16 Aries Working Group Call
    - did:peer:3
    - Unqualified DIDs Coordinated Update
    - Aries Marketing Update
- 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
  - 2023-08-22 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
    - Using Public DIDs for DIDComm Connections
    - Release 0.10.0 Status
    - Update: Hyperledger AnonCreds Rust in ACA-Py
    - Update: Qualified Peer DIDs in ACA-Py
    - PRs and Other Issues
      - Poetry, Nightly Builds, Flake8, and more!
- 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
  - 2023-08-15 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Maintainers Meeting
    - PR Review
    - Finalizing 0.10.0
    - AnonCreds Progress/Next Steps
    - Open Discussion
    - did:peer work
- 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
    - 2023-08-17 Aries Framework JS Meeting notes
      - Aries with AnonCreds in the browser
      - DIDComm v2
      - 0.5.0 release
- 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
- 2023-08-14 AnonCreds Specification Working Group Meeting
  - Updates on the recent work done in removing Ursa dependencies

Trust Over IP Foundation
- Main site: https://trustoverip.org/
- Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation
- All Members Meeting
  - 16 August 2023: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-08-16+All+Members+Meeting+Notes
    - Digital Trust in the Age of Generative AI
    - Guest Speaker: Wenjing Chu
- 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.
  - 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
  - 7 August 2023: https://hackmd.io/pUsOUZa8QHKJTSgf5O6HfQ?view#Meeting---7-August-2023---1500-ET
    - Marketing DIDComm
      - Primarily a UG effort
      - DIDComm Book Work In Progress
    - ToIP TSP Updates
    - Layered Protocols
      - Processing Context
      - Handling unknown

- 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
  - August 22: CCG Traceability Call
  - August 21: Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force Call - Credential Engine Badge Publisher + semantic mapping
Other?

Presentation

Tram Vo (CEO and Founder of MOBI): Cross-Industry Business Automation: Building the New Economy of Movement