2024-03-05 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting

Summary:

Topics:

• Presentation/Demo about AnonCreds in W3C VCDM format
• Status ACA-Py 0.12.0rc1
• Status AnonCreds RS
• Status did:peer and AFJ Interop – where we are
• Upgrading an ACA-Py deployment to AnonCreds RS
• Status: ACA-Py 1.00 Checklist
• Open Discussion

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/98856745538?pwd=VkJROWRxeW43d3hOdnJLemwrS0JKUT09

Call Time: 8:00 Pacific / 17:00 Central Europe

Recordings From the Call:  

Welcome, Introductions and Announcements

• Hyperledger Mentorship Program – now accepting project proposals through March 15, 2024 – great results last year in Hyperledger AnonCreds.
• IIW coming up April 16-18.

Attendees

• Stephen Curran (BC Gov/Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
• Warren Gallagher (AffinitiQuest.io) <warren@affinitiquest.io>
• Emiliano Suñé (BC Gov / Quartech) <emiliano.sune@quartech.com>
• Akiff Manji <BC Gov / Petri Dish Development> <amanji@petridish.dev>

Documentation:

• ACA-Py documentation: https://aca-py.org

Agenda

• Presentation/Demo about AnonCreds in W3C VCDM format – Whats Cookin'
• Status Updates:
  • AnonCreds RS in ACA-Py
    • Endorser progress – PRs 2715, 2720, 2782 all merged. Done!
    • AnonCreds RS Update process - Issue #2808
      • Key concern – multi-tenant handling around enabling tenants to independently update when they are ready.
      • Handling is detailed in the issue.
      • Biggest change – enabling the use of Askar and Askar AnonCreds wallet types at the same time
        • credx and anoncreds-rs libraries both loaded.
        • All endpoints (old and new) available
  • did:peer and AFJ Interop
    • AATH – tests implemented for did:peer:1, 2, 4
    • PR 2748 with fixes for Credo/ACA-Py for did:peer:4
      • 1.0 and 1.1 support for 0023 DiD Exchange
    • Want to get Credo working for AATH – upgrade to backchannel controller for DID Exchange and OOB, restart the agent with new settings for everything
      • Sheldon is looking at this – starting with devcontainers so that a local environment is not needed.
      • Pick the devcontainer when you start the project – good pattern for the use of devcontainers on our repos
  • DID Rotation – PR #2816 – Akiff Manji
    • Getting close – applying updates from feedback on the PR
    • Two more endpoints – creating the DID Peer 2, 4
    • Concern generally about DID Peer creation related to the DIDComm service – did-communication  vs. DIDCommMessaging  - making sure that if you use one or the other, the related data must be consistent.
      • ACA-Py should be using did-communication only -- the related data should be a string -- not JSON. -- verify this.
  • Status of DRPC – working, adjustment to the protocol to support a problem report.
• Status of ACA-Py 0.12.0rc2 - ready to go?
  • What PRs are needed for it?
• Status of ACA-Py 1.0.0 Release:
  • Checklist Issue, labelled Issues and PRs
    • Other issues/PRs to be added?
  • Should we wait on the AnonCreds RS work?
  • LTS Considerations per Aries RFC 0799 Long Term Support
  • Other considerations?
• Other PRs Ready for Review and Issues to Discuss

Upcoming Meeting Topics:

• Multi-architecture containers
  • Issue with BBS+ package – doesn't support ARM containers – need an update to their CI
  • Solution: A third container published that includes BBS+ package, but is single architecture
  • Others are Askar

Future Topics

Action items