2021-10-06 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

• Work updates
• Introduction to the Data Provenance Log - Microledger - Robert Mitwicki
• Open Discussion (as time permits)

Note: This call was recorded and the recording and chat transcript are at the bottom of the page.

Date

06 Oct 2021 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

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Attendees                                                                                                                                                            

• Robert Mitwicki<robert.mitwicki@humancolossus.org>
• Sam Curren <sam@indicio.tech>
• bruce_conrad@byu.edu <bruce_conrad@byu.edu> 
• Steve McCown <smccown@anonyome.com>
• Margo Johnson <margoj@kiva.org>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• IIW (online) Oct 12-14
• Aries SDK for React Native 
  • https://gitlab.grnet.gr/essif-lab/infrastructure_3/animo-solutions
    
• Swiss- Discussion paper on the target vision for an e-ID: 
  • https://www.bj.admin.ch/dam/bj/en/data/staat/gesetzgebung/staatliche-e-id/diskussionspapier-zielbild-e-id.pdf.download.pdf/diskussionspapier-zielbild-e-id.pdf
    
• GlobaliD - 'Code with me' proposal for native mobile aries frameworks. Information and reward details here
  

Release Status and Work Updates

• Aries Protocol Test Suite
• Aries Agent Test Harness
• Aries Shared:
• Aries-CloudAgent-Python
  • 0.7.2 Release being prepared for this week
  • Test cases being run for BBS+ and PE with a few issues found. 
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
• Aries Mobile Agent React Native
• Aries-CloudAgent-Pico
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
• Aries-Toolbox
• Aries-SDK-Java
• Aries-Framework-JavaScript
  • New aries-framework-javascript-ext repository for extensions
    • New package @aries-framework/rest as a rest wrapper around AFJ
  • Work going on for automatic multi indy ledger support
• Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
• Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin (Aries MAX)
• Ursa

Notes:

IHAN Blueprint: https://media.sitra.fi/2018/12/22091907/ihan-blueprint-2-5.pdf Services Section 3.5

Reference about fat protocol: https://www.usv.com/writing/2016/08/fat-protocols/

ACDC vs World: 

Data Agreement:

• https://kantarainitiative.org/download/7902/

• https://github.com/decentralised-dataexchange/automated-data-agreements/tree/main/docs

• https://www.iso.org/standard/80392.html

• Demo: https://igrant.io/data4travel.html

Discussion Topics

• UX of Invitations
  • https://hackmd.io/QuB3EUxtTMOQEmzhqufC6g
  • Data in Invitations
• Deep Linking
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/blob/main/concepts/0268-unified-didcomm-agent-deeplinking/README.md
• Forget Me RFC
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/697
• Open Discussion

Other Business

Future Topics

• Next Meeting
• Daniel Hardman - n-wise protocols (not next week, perhaps 2 weeks)
• ux - wallet interactions with machine readable governance files, what UI do we want, and how do we support that? (stephen curran, pending topic)
• Other:
  • Where should we document interoperability results (AIP 1.0)? A page in this wiki space?
  • Hubs vs Agents
    • https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2019/07/23/rhythm-and-melody-how-hubs-and-agents-rock-together
  • Status and future of wallet query language
  • DID Resolution W3C and Sam's concerns: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/130
  • Connectionless 
  • KERI - deep dive / transaction family / Notary groups / 

Action items

• Robert Mitwicki  Bring on the next call information about how ACDC address problems of JSON-LD serialization of RDF

Call Recording