2023-11-16: Identity Special Interest Group
Summary
On Today's Call:
Review: Working Group status updates
Presentation: Trevor Butterworth (Indicio) and Simon Nazarenko (Indicio): Simplifying Decentralized Identity Governance
Connection Info
The call takes place over Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/93003523877?pwd=Q3VvMnJ1N0lSUEZSc283SmFGRk9SQT09
Date
Nov 16, 2023 4PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT
Call Recording:
Welcome/Introductions
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Attendees
@Char Howland (Indicio PBC) <char@indicio.tech>
@Kyle Robinson (BC Gov) <kyle.robinson@briartech.ca>
Sean Bohan (Hyperledger Foundation) <sbohan@linuxfoundation.org>
@Philippe Bourque (Gouvernement du Québec - MCN) <philippe.bourque@mcn.gouv.qc.ca>
Announcements
Winter holiday hiatus of the Identity SIG
No meeting November 30, December 14 or 28, resuming January 11
Working Group Reports and Release Plans
Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG
2023-11-07 Indy Contributors Call
Report on upgrades or documentation contributions
Indy Besu PoC report
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
Hyperledger Aries
2023-11-15 Aries Working Group Call
ACA-Py Plugin Repo
Please Ack
Long Term Support Policy
2023-11-08 Aries Working Group Call
Long Term Support Policy
Reasons for DIDComm v2 move (followup)
Unqualified DIDs
Aries Bifold User Group (React Native & Typscript)
2023-10-24 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting
Welcome Back
Bifold Update
IIW
Work Update
Aries Cloud Agent Python User Group
2023-11-14 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
Status: 0.11.0 Release
Status: AnonCreds RS Branch into Main
Status: Load Generator
Status: AnonCreds in W3C Format
Demo: The Traction Sandbox – a new utility for playing with ACA-Py, AnonCreds
PRs and Issues - status update
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.
2023-11-07 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Maintainers Meeting
0.11.0 Status
AnonCreds RS in Main Status
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
2023-11-09 Aries Framework JS Meeting notes
Absa wallet: how AFJ reduced thousands lines of code
Moving to OWF - proposal
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
2023-11-13 AnonCreds Working Group Meeting
PRs to the AnonCreds specification – checklist for completion
Project Update/Discussion: AnonCreds v1.0 in the W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model Standard format
Update on AnonCreds v2.0 Work
2023-11-06 AnonCreds Working Group Meeting
PRs to the AnonCreds specification – current status
Design and planning – AnonCreds v1.0 in the W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model Standard format
Trust Over IP Foundation
Main site: https://trustoverip.org/
Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation
All Members Meeting
15 November 2023: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-11-15+All+Members+Meeting+Notes
Task force updates (see below)
Communications Committee: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Communications+Committee
All blogs: https://trustoverip.org/about/news/
3 November 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-11-03+Communications+Committee+Meeting+Notes
BLOGs being worked on:
AI Blog by Wenjing
Trust Registries TF Update BLOG (confirmed)
ACDC - specs -
Post-IIW (Mathieu didn’t have time)
DID WebS TF (Has it launched yet?) - this is drafted. Contact Lance Byrd for an update.
AI and Metaverse Series - Ziada and Anita
ID Pro BLOG Repurpose
19 October 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-10-19+GSWG+Meeting+Notes
Presentation on the Trust Spanning Protocol and the ToIP Glossary
Discussion of Trust Registries
Task Force:
Technology Stack Working Group
31 October 2023: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-10-31+TSWG+Meeting+Notes
Updates from All Members meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-11-15+All+Members+Meeting+Notes
Technology Architecture TF — Wenjing Chu Drummond Reed
Continuing work on ToIP Technology Architecture Specification V1.0
Trust Registry TF — Andor Kesselman Antti Kettunen Darrell O'Donnell
Deliverables Planned:
Trust Registry Protocol Specification
Trust Registry Protocol Companion Guide
Profile Discovery Specification
Trust Spanning Protocol TF — Drummond Reed Wenjing Chu Samuel Smith
Deliverable is the ToIP Trust Spanning Protocol Specification
The keystone of the entire ToIP stack
See the 18 requirements in the ToIP Technology Architecture Spec V1.0
ACDC TF — Samuel Smith Phil Feairheller
Updates for ACDC spec revised format workflow.
KERI spec is first, PRs are up and comments would be great!
AI & Metaverse (AIM) Technology TF — Wenjing Chu
The AI and Metaverse Task Force (AIMTF) has an outstanding call for participation: Authentic Generative AI initiative proposes to study and specify approaches and methods to enhance authenticity & trustworthiness of GAI.
Credential Exchange Protocols TF — Mathieu Glaude
Judith reported that the TF has put together an extensive spreadsheet of the four major protocols. They are now discussing the details and trying to extract the most important details for specific audiences.
did:webs Task Force — Lance Byrd Phil Feairheller Markus Sabadello
Rationale for this new TF: The founders realized they could fix the security flaws of the did:web method by “tunneling” a self-certifying AID (autonomic identifier) inside a did:web URL
The goal is reach a 1.0 release of the specification by December 15, 2023
Potential New Task Force: X.509 VIDs
14 September 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+2023-09-14+Meeting+-+Continuum+Loop
Welcome & Introductions
vLEI Public Review
ContinuumLoop Presentation
6 November 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-11-06+CTWG+Meeting+Notes
TOIP Glossary now has over 350 terms defined
Report on TEv2 tooling progress
Planning for deployment of TEv2 for TSWG specifications
Presentation & discussion of KERISSE
23 October 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-10-23+CTWG+Meeting+Notes
Tremendous progress has been made on editing the ToIP Glossary Workspace document, which now contains over 300 terms
Progress on Terminology Engine v2
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
Meeting every 1st Monday of the month
No September meeting
6 November 2023: https://hackmd.io/pUsOUZa8QHKJTSgf5O6HfQ?view#Meeting---6-November-2023---1500-ET
Protected Cloud Storage
DIDComm at the IETF
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
18 September Meeting
Nick Reynolds presented a proof-of-concept DIDComm protocol for communicating with AI agents
Jesús Diaz (a researcher at IOG) presented some research / formal analysis of DIDComm and offered some possible improvements
James Ebert presented an Invitation Service that makes improvements to existing OOB protocol (when you scan a QR code on device to begin DIDComm convo)
11 September Meeting
Roles in a protocol: using them to indicate support for a subset of the protocol
PR for DIDComm Book Organization: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-book/pull/8
DIF Interoperability Group
Wiki: https://www.notion.so/Interoperability-WG-a42995c37e2a4511a10aea96cdbccc38
Rolling agenda: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/interoperability/blob/master/agenda.md
27 June Meeting
Presentation by Meyer Mechanic (Founder at Vaultie): User Adoption and Interoperability
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
25 October Meeting
Discussion of IoT SIG Potential Work Items
W3C Standard
DID Working Group
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
Other?
Presentation
Trevor Butterworth (Indicio) and Simon Nazarenko (Indicio): Simplifying Decentralized Identity Governance
Recording: