2022-10-11 Indy Contributors Call

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/99220079317?pwd=OHk0U05ITnBkSmZ0aXlIQzFDYWg3UT09

Summary

Recording of Call: 

Welcome and Introductions

Attendees

@Wade Barnes (Neoteric Technologies Inc.) <wade@neoterictech.ca>

@Philipp Schlarb (esatus AG) <p.schlarb@esatus.com>

@Christian Bormann (Robert Bosch GmbH) <christiancarl.bormann@de.bosch.com>

@Lynn Gray Bendixsen (Indicio) <lynn@indicio.tech>

@Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>

@Daniel Bluhm (Indicio) <daniel@indicio.tech>

@Gary de Beer (One37) <gary.debeer@one37id.com>

@Char Howland (Indicio PBC) <char@indicio.tech>

Related Calls and Announcements

• DIF Interop WG is conducting a survey: https://forms.gle/aLxj8MK2TuViyMav5

  • Help shape the topics of future WG meetings!

Release Status and Work Updates

• Indy Node

• Indy SDK

• Indy Monitoring - https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node-monitor

• Indy Node Container - https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node-container

• Indy/Aries Shared Libraries - Hyperledger (indy-vdr, indy-shared-rs, aries-askar)

• Ursa

• Indy DID Method – https://hyperledger.github.io/indy-did-method/

• AnonCreds Specification: https://anoncreds-wg.github.io/anoncreds-spec/

Meeting Topics 

• Root cause and solution to the "mixed node" problem: Indy Node issue 1769

  • Demonstration done of the nodes

  • Question for Wade – can we get a release of indy-plenum, indy-node in the next two days.  "Yes!!!!!"

  • Work completed.

  • Need a way to test the network migration (16.04 to 20.04) on test networks affected by the ordering issue

• New bug found by @Lynn Gray Bendixsen in Indy-Node (or perhaps Plenum)

  • View change to a node that has not caught up.

  • Creates problem.

• Another issue found by @Christian Bormann

  • Audit ledger is supposed to create an entry every 5 minutes, but is actually creating 3 every 5 minutes (one per ledger instead of one across ledgers).

• Discussed https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/pull/1783

• Sovrin Node build

  • Dependencies confusion between deb and python packages for installing sovrins

  • Hacky solution has been implemented that works, but...

  • Indy-Node Version mismatch between deb and pypi packages → https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/issues/1781

• CANdy Prod is now in production in Canada – For Government Issuers – Wade leading the charge on that, but others in Canada participated and contributed.

  • Configs: https://github.com/CQEN-QDCE/Candy

  • Governance: https://github.com/bcgov/bc-vcpedia/wiki/(Layer-1)-CANdy-Utility-Provisional-Governance-Framework

  • Genesis Files: https://github.com/ICCS-ISAC/dtrust-reconu / https://github.com/ICCS-ISAC/dtrust-reconu/tree/main/CANdy/prod

  • Ledger Browser: https://candyscan.idlab.org/home/CANDY_PROD

• indy-vdr – how do we get that released?

  • @Stephen Curranto work with Andrew Whitehead to get indy-vdr released with the associated flag update.

  • Also to check on the did:indy work within indy-vdr – it is not part of main. https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr/tree/did-indy

• AnonCreds:

  • Proposal for Hyperledger AnonCreds to be a top level project is here.  Please review, comment and if you support this, and your name to the sponsor list.

  • AnonCreds on ledgers other than Indy – now up to 6 independent implementations.  Working in the spec. group on making that easier.

  • AnonCreds in W3C VC Data Model standard.  Seems to be not very difficult to do.  Working on a proposal to share for putting an AnonCreds VC into W3C format (and reverse) and the same for an AnonCreds presentation into W3C VC (or VP) Data Model format.

Future Calls

• GDPR and the right to be forgotten – mitigations and approaches.

• Status of Indy-SDK

  • Statement on the future of the Indy SDK: PR 2329

  • Plans for future of Indy CLI (move to Indy VDR?)

  • Indy SDK in test for Indy Node (move to Indy VDR?)

  • Status of GitHub Actions for the Indy-SDK

• Indy bugs

  • Using GitHub tags "Good First Issue" and "Help Wanted" 

  • Node 1490: problems with large catch-up

  • Plenum 1506: view change message consensus calculation error

Action items