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

16 Nov 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
  - Spec: https://hyperledger.github.io/indy-did-method/
  - Source: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-did-method

Hyperledger Aries
- Aries Working Group meetings:
  - 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.
  - Calendar info
  - 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
        https://hackmd.io/@animo/H1qPP85Qp
- 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 AnonCreds
- 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)
- ToIP Working Groups:
  - 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
  - Governance Stack
    - 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:
      - Governance Architecture TF
  - 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
        Canonical Use Cases for the ToIP Stack
        ToIP Glossary
        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.
        https://www.trustoverip.org/blog/2023/10/10/simplifying-the-selection-process-for-credential-issuance-and-presentation-protocols/
        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
  - Ecosystem Foundry
    - 14 September 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+2023-09-14+Meeting+-+Continuum+Loop
      - Welcome & Introductions
      - vLEI Public Review
      - ContinuumLoop Presentation
  - Concepts and Terminology
    - 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
      - Presentation: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xmccu7bdfdnh3tqccx45g/IIW37-McCown-protecting-cloud_storage.pdf?rlkey=k2iywarxkf017dwc0eaf46vjg&dl=0
      - Code: https://github.com/sudoplatform-labs/protecting-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
  - 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
  - 25 October Meeting
    - Meeting recording
    - Discussion of IoT SIG Potential Work Items
  - 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
  - November 14: CCG Traceability Call
  - November 13: Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force Call
Other?

Presentation

Trevor Butterworth (Indicio) and Simon Nazarenko (Indicio): Simplifying Decentralized Identity Governance