2024-04-04: Identity Special Interest Group

Summary

Connection Info

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

Date

Apr 4, 2024 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

Open

Call Recording: 

https://youtube.com/live/wVo8F_qSz0Y

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

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

Announcements 

• Next week's Identity SIG call is cancelled for IIW

• 2024 April IIW Planning

• Workshop: Zero Knowledge Proofs and ZK Programming in Blockchain Application Development

  • April 24

  • https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkfuyhpjsqGd1FCs-ZeFzD90EyqFy18IMt#/registration

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

• Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG

  • 2024-03-26 Indy Contributors Call
    
    

    • Indy Besu updates and discussion

    • Ubuntu 22.04 upgrade

    • Next Indy Summit

    • Mentorship project submissions

    • Any updates on upgrade or documentation contributions

    • Open Discussion

• Hyperledger Aries 

  • Aries Working Group meetings:

    • 2024-04-03 Aries Working Group Call
      
      

      • About Aries VCX

      • Observations on DID Management and Agents

      • Aries RFC Updates - Stalled and Status

      • Remove the Indy SDK from ACA-Py - is it time?

    • 2024-03-27 Aries Working Group Call
      
      

      • Aries RFC MkDocs

      • DIDComm v2 Credential protocol updates

      • Basis for common identifiers

  • Aries Bifold User Group (React Native & Typscript)

    • 2024-02-27 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting

      • Bifold to OWF

      • Dependency Injection

  • Aries Cloud Agent Python User Group
    
    

    • 2024-04-02 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
      
      

      • Status Update did:peer and AFJ Interop – where we are

      • Status ACA-Py 0.12.0

      • Status Update AnonCreds RS

      • Cleanup of Invitations for Reuse and did:peer:2/4 usage

      • Open Discussion

  • 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

    • 2024-03-26 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Maintainers Meeting
      
      

      • OOB Issues and Backwards Compatibility

      • PRs

      • Issues

      • Release 0.12.0

      • Status: Adding support in ACA-Py for AnonCreds in W3C Format

      • Status: Upgrading Wallet Types

  • 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

  • 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

  • 2024-03-25 AnonCreds Working Group Meeting
    
    

    • Progress Update: AnonCreds v1 in W3C VCDM format

    • Discussion: AnonCreds v2 in W3C VCDM Format

    • Schema Object for Complex JSON Objects – Discussion

    • Open Discussion

• Trust Over IP Foundation

  • Main site:  https://trustoverip.org/ 

  • Wiki:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation 

  • All Members Meeting

    • 20 March 2024: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2024-03-20+All+Members+Meeting+Notes

      • Presentation: Content Authenticity Initiative 

  • 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
      
      

      • 7 March 2024 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2024-03-07+GSWG+Meeting+Notes

        • Dror Gurevich, Founder & CEO of Velocity Networks Foundation, presented on their governance process. https://www.velocitynetwork.foundation/learn

      • Task Force:

        • Governance Architecture TF

    • Technology Stack Working Group

      • 19 March 2024: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2024-03-19+TSWG+Meeting+Notes

        • Technology Architecture TF — Wenjing Chu  Drummond Reed

          • Drummond plans on beginning the conversion from the current Markdown version of the ToIP Technology Architecture Specification to the new Spec-Up version beginning later this week.

          • It will include marked up terms from the ToIP Glossary (see agenda item below), example use cases, and the 3rd generation ToIP stack diagram (see agenda item below).

          • The goal is to have a second public review draft ready for Internet Identity Workshop (April 16-18).

          Trust Registry TF — Andor Kesselman Antti Kettunen  Darrell O'Donnell

          • going to Implementor Review in March (next week)

          Trust Spanning Protocol TF — Drummond Reed Wenjing Chu Samuel Smith 

          • The Working Draft is scheduled to reach Implementer Review Draft this month.

          ACDC TF — Samuel Smith Phil Feairheller 

          • progressing toward public review - launching at Member Meeting 2024-03-20

            • Request made to improve blog post - no changes 

              • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VgtlALG2cc3J5XwQVHlp8opaixnecEc3ynjplK4uYm8/edit

          AI & Metaverse (AIM) Technology TF — Wenjing Chu 

          • No members of the TF were present

          • Drummond Reed reported that the TF was working on a project called Authenticity for Generative AI (AGAI). They had developed an outline; the project is expected to last throughout 2024.

          Credential Exchange Protocols TF — Mathieu Glaude 

          • Started doc on Presentation protocol (past was issuance)

          • Determining how to present at IIW

          did:webs Task Force — Lance Byrd Phil Feairheller Markus Sabadello 

          • Implementer Review Draft underway

          • Reference implementation prepared

          • Next steps being discussed

          • Judith Fleenor 

            • Lance Byrd "we are winding down the changes for the public review period. I had hoped to have them done for this week but have been working some other tasks. I’d like to wrap up in March so we can announce version 1 at the beginning of April and at IIW"

          X.509 VID Task Force — Eric Scouten Wenjing Chu

          • Repo will be updated before this week's meeting

    • Ecosystem Foundry

      • 28 March 2024 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+2024-03-28+Meeting+-+Wallet+Survey

        • Discuss Ecosystem Components Paper, Review Case Studies

    • Concepts and Terminology

      • 25 March 2024 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2024-03-25+CTWG+Meeting+Notes

        • Terminology Governance Guide

        • Report on Spec-Up Coding Project

Decentralized Identity Foundation

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  • 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

    • 1 April 2024: https://hackmd.io/pUsOUZa8QHKJTSgf5O6HfQ?view#Meeting---1-April-2024---1500-ET

      • All Things Post-Quantum

      • DIDComm Swag getting ready before IIW

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  • DIF DIDComm Users Group

    • Meeting notes: https://hackmd.io/UYFfUX53QIGCFonPjDbFUQ?view

    • Discord channel: https://discord.com/channels/900385725462229022/911224279885033533

    • 8 April Meeting

      • What Group Chat / Enhanced Protocols are out there? (What have others done?)
        What are the different types of Group Chat?

  • 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

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  • 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

    • 14 February Meeting

      • Meeting recording

      • Discussion of IoT SIG Potential Work Items

    • Meeting recordings

    • Discord channel

• W3C Standard

  • Community Credentials Group

    • January 30: CCG Traceability Call

    • February 19: Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force Call

• OpenWallet Foundation

  • News: EUDI Wallet Reference Implementation  https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/.github/blob/main/profile/reference-implementation.md 

• Other?

Presentation

• Jorge Flores (Co-Founder & CTO of Entidad) and Jesus Torres (Co-Founder & CEO of Entidad) will give a presentation titled: How an Aries digital trust ecosystem helped distribute $60M USD (& counting) to essential workers