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2019-08-26 Indy Maintainers Call

2019-08-26 Indy Maintainers Call

Aug 26, 2019

Summary

  • Release updates

  • Moving the PostgreSQL wallet out of experimental

  • Proposal to improve performance of the Indy SDK CI test pipeline

  • Proposal to support Fully Qualified DIDs

Timezone: US morning and Europe afternoon

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Attendees

  • Name (organization) <email>

  • @Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>

  • @John Jordan (Province of British Columbia)

  • Ian Costanzo (Anon Solutions)

  • @Camilo Parra  (Kiva) <camilop@kiva.org>

  • Alexander Shcherbakov (Evernym) <alexander.shcherbakov@evernym.com>

  • @Ken Ebert (Sovrin Foundation) <ken@sovrin.org>

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Summary of Prior Call

Release Status

  • Indy Node

    • August: 1.9.2

      • Bug fix release

      • Important bug fix for ledger corruption INDY-2211

    • September: 1.10.0

      • PBFT view change

  • Indy SDK

    • August: 1.11.1

      • Finish Authors vs Endorsers

      • Finish proof of possession of payment address

      • Platform Updates: Ubuntu 18.04

    • September: 1.12.0

      • Fully qualified DIDs

        • Dependent on DIDDoc support? (Daniel's document and David Huseby's work)

      • Platform Updates: MacOS, CentOS

    • Future

      • GitLab migration alongside Jenkins (Foundation)?

      • Aries / Indy split

      • Anoncreds 2.0 (Sovrin Foundation, BC.gov?)

  •  Ursa

    •  Working on release of 0.2.0

      • ZKP  / ZKLang improvements

      • Debian packages

      • Refactor internal plumbing for anoncreds 2.0, shouldn't impact external interfaces

      • Refactor multi-signature BLS in addition to aggregated signature

  •  Aries

    • Agent from Indy Catalyst migrated to aries-cloudagent-python (BC.gov)

    • Initial code migration from Indy SDK repositories

  • Indy Catalyst

    • Migrated?

Work Updates

  • Documentation improvements: Michael B and Stephen C

    • Need to review and prune out-of-date documentation (Alice / Faber treatment of pairwise DIDs is a key pain point)

    • Michael is working on Indy Agent walkthrough using C#

    • Finishing work on ReadTheDocs (2 more weeks?)

  • SDK 2.0 architecture / Indy-Aries split (Sergey)

    • Indy SDK Architecture Questions: 

    • Sovrin Foundation team and Daniel making progress

    • Will work on defining the API surface in order to better understand what the threading model should be underneath

    • Need to define how we want to handle private keys. Shouldn't expose them to the end users, but need to access them from multiple libraries.

    • Feels pressure to make short term decisions that can be improved incrementally. Will also help Kiva to contribute.

  • GitLab migration (Mike and Steve G)

    • Demos in the Identity Implementers WG calls

    • Issues with Jenkins machines because Rust builds run out of memory—workaround increased build time but is a temporary solution

  • Advanced Schemas and W3C creds (Ken)

  • Warnings from rust cargo clippy (Mike and Axel)

    • IS-1270 through IS-1274

  • New design for revocation / Anoncreds 2.0 (Mike)

  • Getting Ursa artifacts published that can be used by Indy Node and Indy SDK (Mike and Cam)