2020-01-20 Indy Contributors Call

Summary

• Work updates
• Getting started in the Hyperledger community

Timezone: America afternoon / Pacific morning

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Introductions

Attendees

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

Related Calls and Announcements

• 2020-01-13 Indy Contributors Call
• Identity Implementors Working Group call
  • Main place to get project updates, release status, and announcements.
• Recording and slides are posted for the SSI Meetup webinar on Indy and Plenum.

Release Status and Work Updates

• Indy Node
  • December: 1.12.1
    • Improvements to the TAA behavior
    • Roll-out to Sovrin Network delayed: Post-release identified corner cases related to View Change, and weirdness seen during Builder Net upgrade. Investigation is ongoing.
  • January:
    • 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 December
      • Making progress on other RFCs for objects and one that shows how all the objects fit together.
      • Next: encoding object, then mapping object
    • Replacing Indy Crypto with Ursa (Kiva)
      • Debian packages for Ursa-0.3.0 are uploaded to repo.sovrin.org
  • Future
    • Ubuntu 18.04 (Kiva)
      • Need to check additional dependencies: 
        Error rendering macro 'jira' : null
    • Remove replicas (Aardvark BFT) ?
    • Anoncreds 2.0 (Sovrin Foundation)
• Indy SDK
  • December: 1.14.0 / 1.14.1
    • LibVCX support for Aries Interop v1
    • Improvements to the TAA behavior
  • January:
    • Bugfixes
  •  Future
    • Deprecating some docs (IS-1425: Getting Started Guides) and wrappers (IS-1423: Python and DotNet)
    • 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
  • https://github.com/bcgov/indy-catalyst
  • Production deployment testing: volume loads.
    • Happy with performance now.
  • Migrating to Hyperledger Aries: plan is to moving to aries-verified-credential-registry
    
    • Needs more documentation
• 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.
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/ursa-docs/tree/master/specs/anoncreds2
• Aries Shared Libraries
  • indy-aries-vdr (Andrew Whitehead) https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-ledger-client
  • Next is indy-aries-anoncreds with anoncreds 1 (ready to add anoncreds 2)

Main Business

• Getting started in the Hyperledger community:
  • Get a Linux Foundation ID: https://identity.linuxfoundation.org/
  • Rocket Chat: http://chat.hyperledger.org
  • Indy Jira: http://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY
    Indy SDK Jira: http://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/IS
  • Mailing Lists: https://lists.hyperledger.org/g/indy
  • Identity WG and Identity Implementers WG
  • SSI Meetup (especially the session on Indy announced above)
• Learning about Rich Schemas:
  https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/features/0281-rich-schemas
  https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/features/0249-rich-schema-contexts

Future Calls

• Jan 27: Results from performance testing LibIndy (BC.gov)
• Requirements questions:
  • INDY-2305: Add IP address range for outbound TCP connections from validator nodes
    • Changes the way nodes are represented in the Pool Ledger
  • IS-1099: anoncreds.prover_get_credentials_for_proof_req should return per-credential timestamp
    • Should we allow duplicate credentials from the same issuer?

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