2024-01-11: Identity Special Interest Group

Summary

On Today's Call:

Review: Working Group status updates
Presentation: Digital Credentials Transforming Mining with Open-Source Innovation from Nancy Norris (Senior Director of ESG & Digital Trust in the Ministry for Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation for the Government of British Columbia) and Kyle Robinson (Senior Strategic Advisor for BC Digital Trust with the Government of British Columbia)

Connection Info

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

Date

Jan 11, 2024 4PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

Call Recording:

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

@Char Howland (Indicio PBC) <char@indicio.tech>

Announcements

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG
- 2023-12-19 Indy Contributors Call
  - Indy Besu update and discussion
  - New bug in Indy Plenum: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-plenum/issues/1643
  - Any updates on upgrade or documentation contributions
  - Open Discussion

Hyperledger Aries
- Aries Working Group meetings:
  - 2023-12-20 Aries Working Group Call
    - Aries Agent Test Harness -- https://aries-interop.info
    - Aries Shared Components - Indy SDK replacements
  - 2023-12-13 Aries Working Group Call
    - Aries Agent Test Harness -- https://aries-interop.info
    - Aries Shared Components - Indy SDK replacements
- Aries Bifold User Group (React Native & Typscript)
  - 2023-12-19 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting
    - Bifold Updates
      - Updated add Thiago Romano dos Santos
    - New Work (In-Progress)
      - Rename "App" to "src" shortly
      - Cache schema and cred deff'n lookups at AFJ level
        This may be done in IndyVDR as Andrew W is currently working on cashing mechanics.
      - Dependency Injection for Customization WIP
        Primary tool will match AFJ: https://www.npmjs.com/package/tsyringe
        PoC from Clecio https://github.com/cvarjao/aries-mobile-agent-react-native/tree/ioc
        Carolina (spelling) from Brazil working on this in Bifold
    - Implementing AnonCreds in W3C Data Format
      - WIP by BC. Introduces into Rust libs.
      - Next steps to introduce in ACA-py and AFJ
- Aries Cloud Agent Python User Group
  - 2024-01-09 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
    - Status Updates:
      - AnonCreds RS
      - did:peer and AFJ Interop – where we are
      - Load Generator Testing at BC Gov
      - AnonCreds in W3C Format
    - Prep for Next Meeting: ACA-Py Roadmap for 2024
    - Using ACA-Py with W3C VC Traceability Test Suite
    - Endorser Service UI – Proposal
    - PRs and Issues
- 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
  - 2023-11-21 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Maintainers Meeting
    - 0.11.0
      - rc2 released, waiting on fix from Daniel and the RevRegEntry Endorser PR
    - AnonCreds RS Branch moving to main
      - Ready to go!
    - Open PRs / High Priority Issues
      - PR Review Required
    - 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
    - 2023-11-09 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