2019-09-16 Indy Contributors Call

Summary

Timezone: US afternoon and APAC morning

We intend to record this call.

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Attendees

• Name (organization) <email>

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

• Alan Krassowski (Kiva) <alank@kiva.org>

• Cam Parra (Kiva) <camilop@kiva.org>

• @Kyle Den Hartog

Announcements

• Community project: Aries RFCs - process to move HIPES; RFCs that have been moved concepts / features / pull requests.

• Aries Workshop/Connectathon December 3-5 in Provo, Utah (details to follow)

• Internet Identity Workshop — want to coordinate demos

• Hyperledger Maintainers Summit: Minneapolis October 8-10

• Bootcamp Russia: Event Location

Summary of Prior Call

Release Status

• Indy Node

  • August: 1.9.2

    • Bug fix release

    • Important bug fix for ledger corruption INDY-2211

      • Recovery complicated by https://sovrin.atlassian.net/browse/SN-7

  • September: 1.10.0

    • PBFT view change

    • Indy Node and Indy Plenum support for Ubuntu 18.04

• 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 (September / October)

    • 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

  • Lots of progress on language libraries, frameworks, and agents.

• Indy Catalyst

  • Production deployment testing: volume loads.

  • Won't go live in production at BC.gov until October.

  • Not yet migrated to Hyperledger. Needs more documentation.

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  • Need to review and prune out-of-date documentation (Alice / Faber treatment of pairwise DIDs is a key pain point)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

  • Cloud Compass is building the Linux Foundation EdX courses for Indy and Aries

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

  • Kiva is working on a Futures implementation of threading (instead of call-backs) (https://github.com/kiva/aries-sdk.git)

• CI / CD: GitLab migration (Mike and Steve G)

  • Demos in the Identity Implementers WG calls

  • Hyperledger is also evaluating Azure Pipelines

• Advanced Schemas and W3C creds (Ken)

  • Can successfully write and retrieve the Context object from the node code. Will track through all layers up to Aries.

    • https://github.com/ken-ebert/indy-node/commits/master

  • 5 additional objects need to be added.

  • Working on the HIPE for the new Schema object.

• Warnings from rust cargo clippy (Mike and Axel)

  • IS-1270 through IS-1274

• New design for revocation / Anoncreds 2.0 (Mike)

  • Would be useful to have a comparison in performance between Anoncreds 1.0 and Anoncreds 2.0

  • First draft is latex document in Ursa repo. Will be published as PDF and HTML.

    • https://github.com/hyperledger/ursa-docs/tree/master/specs/anoncreds2

  • Need a plan for changes to Indy Node

    • HIPE for overall changes, then a design PR for the changes specific to the different repos.
      https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/tree/master/design

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

Other Business

Future Calls

• Define pull request review process for Indy Node.

  • Should define the process, including how we handle exceptions (emergency fixes shouldn't be blocked, but would require notification)

  • What is important in a good review?

• Fully Qualified DID support in Indy SDK

• fuzzing libindy https://github.com/AxelNennker/indy-sdk/tree/fuzzing/
  `cargo +nightly fuzz run fuzz_target_1 -- -only_ascii=1`
  Worried about unsafe code in libindy
  ```
  ignisvulpis@namenlos:~/development/hyperledger/indy-sdk/libindy$ find src -name \*\.rs -exec fgrep unsafe {} \; | wc -l
  61
  ```

Action items

Call Recording

Open