2024-06-13: Identity Special Interest Group

Summary

On Today's Call:

Review: Working Group status updates
Presentation: Vipin Bharathan (Digital Assets Consultant and Full Stack Engineer at dlt.nyc): Digital Identity in Consensus 2024

Connection Info

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

Date

13 Jun 2024 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

Call Recording:

https://youtube.com/live/XenDX2_yZNI

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Vipin Bharathan
Char Howland
Dino C. DellAccio
Bret Michael Carpenter
Daniel Bachenheimer
Alfonso Govela
Sean Bohan
Tim Spring
Victor Lu
Noemi
Asher
Maria Teresa
Keith Kowal

Announcements

Check out the OpenID AMAs
- OpenID4VP AMA
- OpenID4VCI AMA
GBBC’s Blockchain Central UNGA
Dino Cataldo Dell'Accio will present United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) - Digital Identity at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20) (link

Links

Identity SIG Playlist
EC ARF
EU DI Architecture and Reference Framework on GitHub
On the Shamir secrect sharing topic - there is a new organization called DeRec Alliance working on this to create industry standards

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG
- 2024-06-04 Indy Contributors Call
  - Ubuntu 22.04 upgrade
  - Ledger Redaction follow-up discussion
  - Indy Besu updates and discussion

Hyperledger Aries
- Aries Working Group meetings:
  - 2024-05-29 Aries Working Group Call
    - VDR Protocol
    - Interopathon?
  - 2024-05-22 Aries Working Group Call
    - Mediator Reconfig
    - VDR Protocol
- 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
  - 2024-06-11 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
    - PRs and Issues
    - 1.0.0 Progress
  - 2024-05-28 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
    - Code Coverage – an update
    - Dependabot PRs – actions
    - 1.0.0 Progress
    - The --no-transport start up option
- 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
  - 2024-06-04 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Maintainers Meeting
    - PRs, Issues, Dependabot, and technical debt
- 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
- 2024-06-10 AnonCreds Working Group Meeting
  - Privacy and Unlinkability without ZKPs – what do we think?
  - Help Me Understand
    - Comparing Dock Networks Library and AnonCreds v2: Apples to Apples or Apples to Oranges?
    - How do we BBS Support into AnonCreds v2?
    - What BBS Library should we use?
    - Are all of the AnonCreds v2 features supported in all Libraries?

Trust Over IP Foundation
- Main site: https://trustoverip.org/
- Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation
- All Members Meeting
  - 15 May 2024: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2024-05-15+All+Members+Meeting+Notes
    - FindyNet Presentation
- 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
    - 4 April 2024 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2024-04-04+GSWG+Meeting+Notes
      - ToIP Trust Canvas Update: slide deck
    - Task Force:
      - Governance Architecture TF
  - Technology Stack Working Group
    - 11 June 2024: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2024-06-11+TSWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Technology Architecture TF — Wenjing Chu Drummond Reed
        Drummond has been converting to SpecUp.
        3rd gen diagrams being applied
        all use cases (5 tables)
        dependencies on the updated (SpecUp) ToIP Glossary
        Trust Registry TF — Andor Kesselman Antti Kettunen Darrell O'Donnell
        EIC: interest in the application of TRP to access the (growing and varied) registries that are emerging.
        Trust Spanning Protocol TF — Drummond Reed Wenjing Chu Samuel Smith
        only one meeting (prep for EIC) - several successful panels talking about TSP
        ACDC TF — Samuel Smith Phil Feairheller
        Revising RFC2119 language - first pass through on all 3 specs - in GitHub now
        REQUEST - look at specs for feedback
        CESR spec especially, quite a few normative changes
        DICE (Europe) - 18th pre-unconference - mini-KERI conference (Henk, Sam, ++)
        AI & Metaverse (AIM) Technology TF — Wenjing Chu
        Neil: creating model that deals with data provenance (e.g. C2PA)
        Data modelling group is overlapping with AIMTF - looking to provide risk work on C2PA as exemplar
        additionally, how can C2PA and TSP work together
        Credential Exchange Protocols TF — Mathieu Glaude
        -
        did:webs DID Method TF — Lance Byrd Phil Feairheller Markus Sabadello
        -
        X.509 VID Task Force — Eric Scouten Wenjing Chu
        -
        Trust DID Web (did:tdw) TF: John Jordan Stephen Curran
  - Ecosystem Foundry
    - 9 May 2024 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+2024-05-09+Meeting+-+Bhutan+NDI+Case+Study
      - Bhutan NDI Case Study
  - Concepts and Terminology
    - 23 May 2024 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2024-05-23+CTWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Version management of Spec-up vs. version management of terminology
      - Terminology Governance Guide
      - ToIP Glossary & Spec-Up Proposal

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 May 2024: https://hackmd.io/pUsOUZa8QHKJTSgf5O6HfQ?view#Meeting---6-May-2024---1500-ET
    - DIDComm Swag: https://didcomm.myspreadshop.com/
    - Tasks
      - addition of post-quantum cipher suites
      - addition of any session mechanisms

- DIF DIDComm Users Group
  - Meeting notes: https://hackmd.io/UYFfUX53QIGCFonPjDbFUQ?view
  - Discord channel: https://discord.com/channels/900385725462229022/911224279885033533
  - June 8, 2024
    - EIC: DIDComm was mentioned a lot at EIC
    - OpenID-DIDComm work was presented
    - PushNotification Draft
- 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
  - 14 February Meeting
    - Meeting recording
    - Discussion of IoT SIG Potential Work Items
  - Meeting recordings
  - Discord channel

W3C Standard
- Community Credentials Group
  - CCG 2024-04-09 - Summer of Protocols
    - https://summerofprotocols.com/research/sop2024
OpenWallet Foundation
- News: EUDI Wallet Reference Implementation https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/.github/blob/main/profile/reference-implementation.md
Other?

Presentation

Vipin Bharathan (Digital Assets Consultant and Full Stack Engineer at dlt.nyc): Digital Identity in Consensus 2024