2020-10-13 Indy Contributors Call

Summary

The call recording is available here: 202021013 Indy Contributors Call Recording

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Introductions

Attendees

• @name (Employer) <email>
• Alexander Jonsson  (Laniakea Health) alex@laniakeahealth.com
• Lynn Gray Bendixsen (Indicio.tech) lynn@indicio.tech
• Wade Barnes wade.barnes@shaw.ca
• Himangshu Pan (Klizo Solutions) himangshu@klizos.com
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.comf> 
• Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>
• Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>

Related Calls and Announcements

• IIW Oct 20-22 (will be held online) 

Release Status and Work Updates

• Indy Node
  • Next release in process
• Indy SDK
  • Team at ABSA is considering a different architecture https://github.com/AbsaOSS/libvcx/commits/master - likely to become an Aries repo with libvcx removed from indy-sdk
  • Next Release Timing TBD
  • Wrapper for IOS and Android from GlobalID to be donated
• Indy Monitoring - https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node-monitor
  • Update to validator-status script to include public IP addresses of nodes – thanks Wade Barnesand Andrew Whitehead
• Indy/Aries Shared Libraries
  • Current status: creating a branch of ACA-Py with these components and without indy-sdk 
  • Indy Shared:
    • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead)  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
    • indy-credx - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx
    • indy-shared-rs - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-shared-rs
  • Aries Shared:
    • aries-credx
    • aries-askar - Aries Storage - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/aries-askar
• Ursa

Meeting Topics

• New Indy HIPE - Generic Token
  • Question: define a payment interface, or include a generic token plugin?
    • Could make the Sovrin token generic:
      https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/token-plugin
      https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/libsovtoken
    • Do we need Hyperledger TSC approval to include token code in Hyperledger?
    • Vote: 8 Yes, 0 No, 4 abstain
• Should Rich Schema be released or not?
  • Vote:
    • Yes to release what is on Main today (including Rich Schema) after the feature flag is added
    • No to make Main match what is the current release today and carry forward from there.
  • Vote results:
    • Yays: 4
    • Nays: 1
    • Abstains: 1
• Release Status:
  • Replace indy-crypto with ursa – build failing, Wade Barnesinvestigating
  • CI/CD Progress being made (yay!)

Future Calls

Next call:

• Indy Plenum PRs

Future:

Action items