2021-03-25 : Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

On Today's Call:

Review: Working Group status updates
Presentation: Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) will give a presentation on how to simplify creating language wrappers for Rust libraries to help them port to more platforms.

Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom: https://zoom.us/my/hyperledger.community.3?pwd=UE90WHhEaHRqOGEyMkV3cldKa2d2dz09

Date

25 Mar 2021 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Name (Organization) <email>
Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

Announcements

IIW Workshop #32 (Apr 2021), online, https://internetidentityworkshop.com
Hyperledger Global Forum 2021 (June 8-10) - https://www.hyperledger.org/event/hyperledger-global-forum-2021

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

Main Identity WG
- Meeting Notes: 2021-03-03
  - Drummond Reed presented an overview of his new book on Self-Sovereign Identity (https://www.manning.com/books/self-sovereign-identity)

Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG
- 2021-03-16 Indy Contributors Call
  - Indy Node
    - Functionality to remove tokens (Richard Esplin)
      - Blocked by system test dependency on sovrin.deb
      - Will split Sovrin specific tests in indy-test-automation into separate repo in sovrin-foundation org
      - Need to move to GitHub Actions pipeline for Sovrin deb.
    - Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade
      - Making good progress, but blocked because there isn't a pipeline.
      - Draft of pipeline based on PR1505 : https://github.com/udosson/indy-plenum/tree/gha-ubuntu-20.04/.github/workflows
    - New branching model
  - Indy SDK
    - Moving to GitHub actions
    - Indy Node release needs a build of Indy SDK with freeze ledgers to do system tests. Currently blocked with publishing to pypi.
  - Indy Monitoring - https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node-monitor
  - Indy/Aries Shared Libraries - donated to Hyperledger (indy-vdr, indy-shared-rs, aries-askar)
  - Hyperledger Contribution Campaign

Hyperledger Aries
- Aries Working Group meetings:
  - Meeting Agenda & Notes: Aries Working Group
  - WG A: 2021-03-10-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
    - Verifiable Credential - Overview of data models, VDR, revocation mechanism - demo with KERI based identifiers
      - Presentation: google doc access request link
  - WG B: 2021-03-24-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
    - Aries Agent Test Harness Interoperability Test Status – presentation for DIF Interoperability WG - Stephen Curran
    - AIP Next
      - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/579 (Main AIP 2.0 PR)
      - AIP 2.0 PRs
    - Merged several PRs
    - Next Week – PRs for AIP 2.0, Issues for AIP 2.0, Status changes for AIP 2.0
- Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
  - Release 0.6.0 tagged and image posted.
  - Recently Merged:
    - BDD test suite of integration tests that supplement the AATH tests – different startup options, e.g. multi-tenancy, mediator, etc.
  - In Progress:
    - Credential Exchange V2 (0454)
    - Shared Components: Fully functional branch that uses the shared libraries, not indy-sdk
    - Getting to W3C Verifiable Credential support with ZKP and Selective Disclosure
    - DIF Presentation Exchange
- Aries Bifold User Group
- Aries Language Frameworks, Libraries, and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
- Tools (great for interoperability testing)
  - Aries Toolbox – supports ACA-Py 5.3 https://github.com/thclab/aries
  - Aries Protocol Test Suite - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-protocol-test-suite
  - Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-agent-test-harness

Hyperledger Ursa
- Homepage: Hyperledger Ursa
- 2021-03-17 Meeting Agenda
  - HGF talk proposal update
  - Post-quantum plan confirmation
  - Signature Interfaces
  - Discussion of key resharing.
  - Looking for volunteers

Trust Over IP Foundation
- Main site: https://trustoverip.org/
- Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation
- All Members Meeting
  - 17 Mar 2021: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-03-17+All+Members+Meeting+Notes
    - Slides: Trust over IP Foundation - All-Member Meeting 03.17.21.pdf
    - Recording
    - ToIP Charter
    - Good Health Pass - becoming a full ToIP project effort
    - ToIP Whitepaper v2 underway
- Steering Committee Meeting
  - 23/24 Mar 2021: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=74256
  - Presentation slides: Trust over IP - Steering Committee - Good Health Pass WG - Mar23 2021.pdf
  - Recording: LINK (3/23) and LINK (3/24)
  - Proposal: Interoperability Working Group for Good Health Pass
    - Partnership of many health-related organizations
    - Website: https://www.goodhealthpass.org
    - Whitepaper: Download the white paper
  - Role of ID2020 (intro by Dakota Gruener, Exec Dir of ID2020)
- ToIP Working Groups:
  - Communications Committee: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Communications+Committee
  - Governance Stack
  - Technical Stack - Interoperability Taskforce
  - Utility Foundry
  - Ecosystem Foundry
  - Decentralized Semantics
  - Concepts and Terminology

DIF DIDComm Working Group
- Rolling Agenda: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm/blob/main/agenda.md
- 22 Mar 2021 meeting
  - PRs
    - 170 - Restructure to solve image display issues.
    - 172 - Fix inconsistencies with to/next attributes in a forward message.
    - 171 - media type discussion
    - 167 - accept property
    - 161 - Attachments WIP
      - Encrypted Attachments https://hackmd.io/jx8W0boDSzmLe2r6LKQU5w
  - Issues
    - 165 - cty of JWM
    - 162 - Rewrapping forwarded messages. - awaiting PR
DIF Interoperability Group
- Main: https://identity.foundation/interop/
- Wiki: https://www.notion.so/Interoperability-WG-a42995c37e2a4511a10aea96cdbccc38
- Rolling agenda: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/interoperability/blob/master/agenda.md
  - 24 Mar 2021:
    - Stephen Curran from Aries and Anil John from SVIP spoke about interop profiles and test harnesses
    - Advanced readings:
      - Slides and demo/videos from SVIP event last week
        VC-HTTP-API specification used in recent SVIP plugathon (more detailed documentation forthcoming)
        CHAPI test suite recently updates as well
      - Recently-launched public website for tracking cross-agent testing in the Aries test harness
      - Guided tour of iGrant.io's Aries Testing Journey and their open-sourced Aries Interop Playground
      - Interop Testing Survey in support of DIF Member Gataca's Verifier Universal Interface (done through the interop program of ESSIF-LAB)
Sovrin Foundation
- Technical Governance Board (TGB)
  - 18 Mar 2021 Meeting Minutes:
  - Sovrin Dashboards: https://sovrin.org/ssi-metrics-dashboards/
  - Sovrin Security Policies (Review)
    - Sovrin Preliminary Security Review (2017)
    - Sovrin Crisis Management Plan (2017)
  - Looking for a CISO
  - Reviewing Sovrin infrastructure
    - Jenkins Nodes - AWS (Migrating to GHA)
    - Mac Stadium (Migrating to GHA)
    - Public documentation
    - Telegram, Signal
  - Ursa discussion about divorcing Key Event Logs from Service Endpoints
- Steward Council
  - Rolling Agenda:
  - 18 Mar 2021
    - Presentation slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/192LP_8WYqATVoDlNsp1aFytbqfXd-zjk6AS1VtP9dSU/edit#slide=id.g44af78d6af_0_16
    - Sufficient votes to keep token on main net
    - Indy Updates
      - Ubuntu 16.04 nearing EOL
      - Ubuntu 20.04 nearing compltion
        Stewards can upgrade to a 1.12.4 ver (current) compatible with Ubuntu 20.04
        Once upgraded, Indy 1.13 upgrades available
        Still working on CI/CD
    - Steward Project Showcase - the SSI eIDAS Bridge (Xavier Villa)

W3C Standard
- Verifiable Credentials Working Group
- DID Working Group

Other?

Presentation

Future Topics

Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org)