2019-12-19 Identity WG Implementers Call

Summary

• Project updates
• Pico Labs demo

Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom here https://zoom.us/j/244779296

Reminder to the host: we plan to record this call.

Date

19 Dec 2019 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Announcements

• Meeting logistics:
  • New Zoom room (someone reading this should post the Zoom link in Rocket Chat for those who didn't find it.)
  • New Hyperledger Community Calendar
    • If you added the Google ICS to your calendar feed, you should replace it with the Groups.io ICS
  • Meeting cancelled January 2
• Recording and slides are posted for the SSI Meetup webinar on Indy and Plenum.
• Hyperledger edX course launched- Introduction to Hyperledger Sovereign Identity Blockchain Solutions: Indy, Aries & Ursa
• Other Announcements?

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

• Main Identity WG 2019-11-27
  • FATF digital
  • India stack: digital lockers and consent layers
  • Next call: Darrell O'Donnell on digital wallets
• Hyperledger Indy
  • Contributors Meeting
    • Detailed discussion on the behavior of  the Transaction Author Agreement.
    • Discussion of how to host an Indy validator in a Kubernetes environment.
    • Discussed the future of Indy SDK wrappers.
  • Indy Node
    • December, 1.12.1: Improvements to the TAA behavior, and the schema object for rich schemas.
      • Rich Schema schema object support https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/pull/1513
  • Indy SDK
    • December, 1.14.0: Improvements to the TAA behavior, and LibVCX support for Aries Interop V1
  • Indy Catalyst
    • https://github.com/bcgov/indy-catalyst
    • Happy with performance now.
    • Need to improve documentation before migrating into Hyperledger GitHub org
  • Indy Semantics WG
    • ODCA pilots underway
    • The agenda, video, notes, etc. from the HL Indy Semantics WG call: 
• Hyperledger Aries
  • Aries Working Group meetings:
    • WG A: Preference for language frameworks over "SDK" wrappers. Discussion of different interpretations of Aries RFC 0094.
    • WG B: 
  • Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
    • Cloud Agent Python - Release 0.3.5 released. Release Notes
    • Static Agent Python - Working on release with return routing, other improvements
  • Aries Protocol Test Suite
    • Architectural improvements to support mediators, then can contribute LibVCX tests
  • Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)
  • Aries Language Frameworks and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
• Hyperledger Ursa
  • Ursa 3.0 release is due in November
    • Updated BLS signature (multi-signatures, small-BLS)
    • Compilation optimization for specific hardware
    • Rest of predicates for Anoncreds 2.0 and delegatable credentials
  • Ursa 0.3.0 released
    • Updated BLS signature (multi-signatures, small-BLS)
    • Compilation optimization for specific hardware
    • Rest of predicates for Anoncreds 2.0 and delegatable credentials
  • ZMix 0.1.0 expected in January
    • Ursa and ZMix will be separate releases. ZMix is the proving code, and Ursa is everything else.
  • Agent Managed storage considerations -
• Sovrin
  • Network updates and extensions
  • Sovrin Governance Frameworks and Trust Architecture
    • Sovrin Governance Framework v2 is approved.
    • Transaction Author Agreement is expected to be enforced on the Sovrin Staging Net in January, and Sovrin Main Net in February.
      • Indy is incorporating some changes to make it easier to adopt a TAA.

  • Sovrin Foundation Webmeeting Info:

    • The WG meets every other week for two regional one-hour Zoom webmeetings. Upcoming 2019 meeting dates: Nov 4/5, Nov 18/19, Dec 2/3, Dec 16/17.

    • US/EU Region meetings are Mondays 08:00-09:00 Pacific Time, 16:00-17:00 UTC.

    • APAC Region meetings are Mondays 18:00-19:00 Pacific Time, Tuesdays 02:00-03:00 UTC, Tuesdays 3-4PM New Zealand.

• W3C Standards
  • Drummond's slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSuaCI_igQy7H42-ynaaRYySuspY0rBMWjSgmotS56xJmNm19RZFGaPhmCMyJja6A/pub?slide=id.p1
  • Verifiable Credentials Working Group
    • Discussed adopting an "evergreen" approach to standard maintenance
  • DID Working Group
    • Discussed alternative key serialization methods
• Interop and External updates (Dmitri Zagidulin) 
  • Talks continue between the various Personal Data Server communities, with the goal of choosing a standards body, where a common Agent / Data Hub / PDS spec can be incubated.
  • LifeScope Labs http://lifescope.io is announcing plans to implement Solid server, Encrypted Data Vaults and DIF Identity Hub APIs into its open-source personal data store.
• Other?
  • Diversity, Civility, and Inclusion working group virtual meetings

Open Discussion

• • Pico Labs demo

Next Meeting Topics

• January 2: Cancelled
• January 16: Demo of Git commit signing with a DID, Ibrahim El Rhezzali

Future Topics

• Roadmap coordination between Indy, Aries and Ursa

Action items

Call Recording