2019-11-25 Indy Contributors Call

Summary

Work updates
Pull request review process for Indy Node

Timezone: US afternoon / APAC morning

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Introductions

Attendees

Name (Employer) <email>
Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>
Stephen Curran

Related Calls and Announcements

Aries Workshop/Connectathon December 3-5 in Provo, Utah
- https://www.meetup.com/Utah-Sovrin-Meetup/events/265714942/
ssimeetup.org webinars
- Peer DIDs Nov 21 at 1 PM MST,
- December 17: Deep dive into the Plenum Ledger
Hyperledger edX course - Introduction to Hyperledger Sovereign Identity Blockchain Solutions: Indy, Aries & Ursa
Previous Indy Contributors call
Identity Implementors Working Group call
- Main place to get project updates, release status, and announcements.

Release Status and Work Updates

Indy Node
- November: 1.12.1
  - Bug fixes
  - Ubuntu 18.04 (Kiva)
    - Need to check additional dependencies:
      Error rendering macro 'jira' : null
  - Replacing Indy Crypto with Ursa (Kiva)
  - Additional rich schemas objects: schema object (Sovrin Foundation)
    - Just posted Indy HIPE
      https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-hipe/pull/149
    - Aries RFC
      https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/281
    - PR of schema object in progress for November
    - Making progress on other RFCs for objects and one that shows how all the objects fit together.
- December / January: 1.23.0
  - Remove replicas (Aardvark BFT) ?
  - Rich Schema progress: encoding object
- Future
  - Anoncreds 2.0 (Sovrin Foundation)
Indy SDK
- November 1.13.0
  - Issue reported by BC.gov:
    https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/pull/1893
  - Need to include a manual release of iOS artifacts
  - LibVCX support for some Aries protocols
  - Deprecating some docs (IS-1425: Getting Started Guides) and wrappers (IS-1423: Python and DotNet)
  - Bug fixes
- Future
  - Deprecate additional wrappers (IS-1424) and LibVCX (IS-1416)
  - GitLab migration alongside Jenkins (Foundation)?
  - Warnings from rust cargo clippy (Mike and Axel), epic: IS-1401
Indy Catalyst
- Production deployment testing: volume loads.
  - Trying to identify performance bottlenecks. Currently think it's calls to the database.
  - Performance problems is preventing going to production.
- Not yet migrated to Hyperledger. Needs more documentation.
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- Need to review and prune out-of-date documentation (Alice / Faber treatment of pairwise DIDs is a key pain point)
- Cloud Compass is building the Linux Foundation EdX courses for Indy and Aries
  - Overview launch date: November 21st
  - More content will follow
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
- 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
  - BC.gov will implement the existing revocation capability in ACA-Py for use in constrained cases
    - Looking to build against Anoncreds 2.0 as soon as it is available.
    - Unable to contribute to the Anoncreds 2.0 revocation capability at this time - no resources for that work.

Main Business

Define the pull request review process for Indy Plenum/Node
- Review notes from 2019-11-18 Indy Contributors Call
- BC.gov team likes the process, and thinks it might be useful to use on the SDK as well.
Consensus protocols in Indy
- Besu uses BFT:
  - iBFT 2.0 (Istanbul BFT 2)
  - Clique
  - https://besu.hyperledger.org/en/stable/Concepts/Consensus-Protocols/Comparing-PoA/
  - Tested at 8 nodes.
- Concerns with Aardvark versus RBFT
Update on LibVCX support for Aries

Future Calls

Indy performance analysis (BC.gov)
Migration of Indy-SDK to Aries-Core
Requirements question: IS-1099, should we allow duplicate credentials from the same issuer?
Non-secrets in the Indy Wallet
- Cam is working on pluggable crypto. The wallet shouldn't decide what encryption you should be using.
- Use cases where we would want to move keys between wallets
  - Moving the link secret / credential data from one device to another (synchronized storage).
  - Debug use cases
  - Richard's hit other uses cases that were better solved with DID Doc, pre-signing, signing API.
- Work-around with the web-crypto API

Action items

HIPE #138, Issue #144 (Ken and Brent)
- Create a PR for changing status to ACCEPTED
- Check for an Aries RFC
PR to RFC #0019 to compare pack/upack to msgpack (Sergey)
Richard and Sergey will close old pull requests with a descriptive comment.
Mike wants to review the 61 cases of "unsafe" libindy calls and figure out if they are justified.

Call Recording

Call was not recorded