2020-07-07 Indy Contributors Call

Summary

Planned:

The Issue Game - addressing PRs
New repo: indy-node-monitor
Backgrounder: indy-vdr

The call recording is available here: 20200707 Indy Contributors Call

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Introductions

Attendees

@Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
@Brent Zundel (Evernym) <brent.zundel@evernym.com>
@Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

Related Calls and Announcements

Identity Implementer Working Group call (Wiki Page) - every 2nd Thursday
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Release Status and Work Updates

Indy Node
- Timing TBD:
  - Replacing Indy Crypto with Ursa(Kiva)
    - Test are running as I type...
  - ? More "rich schema" objects
  - ? Ubuntu 20.04 (Kiva) - other dependencies - Jira Issue
Indy SDK
- Timing TBD:
  - Indy VDR into LibIndy
  - Indy Credx into LibIndy
Indy/Aries Shared Libraries
- Aries Shared:
  - indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
    - Recent PRs from @Patrik Stas related to demo; start of a node-js wrapper
    - One open PR - callback ID
    - Simple example in the script that is a start point for indy-node-monitor
    - Working on the CI/CD pieces to produce multi-platform artifacts
  - indy-credx - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx
    - No updates
    - To be moved to BC Gov and then to Hyperledger
  - indy-shared-rs - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-shared-rs
    - Shared features across indy-vdr and indy-credx
    - pack/unpack on Ursa (not libsodium)
    - To be moved to Hyperledger
    - Three crates - indy-utils, key derivation/pack/unpack/base58, indy-anon-creds (data types for credentials, reduce dependencies), indy-test (dev genesis file)
  - aries-credx
    - https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
      - 6 most common attribute encodings (but not anoncreds 1 attribute encoding)
    - Can make a non-revocable credential and create proofs.
  - Aries Secure Storage initiatives:
    - Andrew is making progress on this. Covered on Aries WG call. Recording available on this page.
    - Key management
    - Demo planned for this week's ACA-Pug call.
- Ursa
  - BBS+, Revocation work 2.0 work
  - Current Release: 0.3.2, but 0.3.4 is ready. What's happening with the release?
    - Last PR merged yesterday, Ursa call this week
    - Attempts to use main branch in libindy – compile errors, so there is a cleanup needed.
    - indy-vdr is using pre-release 0.3.4, but needs published Ursa crate

Meeting Topics

@Brent Zundel The Issue Game: PRs to be reviewed:
@Stephen Curran indy-node-monitor repo
- Simple docker image based on indy-vdr to collect validator info - if you have the authority
- Help Wanted: Parse the JSON and extract useful information for notifications and trending.
@Andrew Whitehead an introduction to indy-vdr

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