2020-01-29-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Summary:

Planned Topics:

• Issue Game: Can we close this?
• TBD

Note: This call is being recorded.

Date

29 Jan 2020 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

Related Meetings Review

• Ursa - No calls since the last Aries meeting.
• Semantics - yesterday's call: Handling big data in an Indy Credential - workaround - Hashlink. Link to Paper
• DID UX Call - Slack/Mailing list - details in the shared document as well minutes and additional information, currently focus on Purpose Based Services
• SSI in IoT WG
• Indy Contributors - Richard Esplin (Mon) - Notes
• Identity WG / Identity WG Implementer calls (Wed / Thurs) - no calls since last Aries meeting
• DIF DIDComm WG - Monday's at Noon US/Pacific Outline happening next week.

Upcoming Releases and Work Updates

• Aries Protocol Test Suite
  • Feature Discovery protocol tests now in test suite thanks to the efforts of Keith Smith
  • Moving on to Issue Credential; first targeting Indy ledger specific tests with the hope of informing design of ledger agnostic tests.
    
• Aries Shared:
  • Aries KMS
  • Verifiable Data Registry Interface (VDRI) library: indy-aries-vdr (Andrew Whitehead) https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-ledger-client
  • Other Core Libraries (pack / unpack)
• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov) - Latest is Release 0.4.0 on PyPi. Some small updates. Big contribution of a set of three sample controllers using different tech stacks.
  • ACA-Pug (User Group) starting, with first meeting next Wednesday, 1 hour before this meeting. ACA-Pug page is here.
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
  • 2020-01-21 Framework Go Weekly Planning
  • RFC implementation status and Wishlist (Dec/2019)
  • Initial scaffolding completed for JS Worker interface for Aries Framework Go WASM.
  • Continuing efforts on routing & relays, crypto/kms, WebAssembly, verifiable credentials, generic message handlers (and external registration), JWE envelopes.
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
• Aries-StaticAgent-Python - Now up to 0.6.1; more details
• Aries-Toolbox
  • Official repo moved to aries-toolbox
  • Preparing for a new release based on the latest ACA-Py
• Aries-SDK-Python - Wrapper from JeromK and SBCA?
• Aries-SDK-Java
• Aries-Framework-JavaScript / Aries-SDK-JavaScript
  • As agreed in the connect-a-thon, planning efforts on merging the aries-sdk-javascript codebase into a single framework repo - aries-framework-javascript
  • Starting with the efforts on the React-Native Mobile Agent.
• Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
  • HIPEs/RFCs
    • overview https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/concepts/0250-rich-schemas
    • context https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/features/0249-rich-schema-contexts
    • schema processing feedback https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/features/0281-rich-schemas 
  • Next HIPEs/RFCs for
    • encoding
    • mapping
    • credential definition 
  • Node implementation of
    • context (merged)
    • schema PR in progress https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/pull/1513
• Ursa 0.3.1 release in January
  • Delegate-able credentials
  • Flexible configuration options
  • ZMix 0.1.0 expected in January
    • Ursa and ZMix will be separate releases. ZMix is the proving code, and Ursa is everything else.

Agenda

• Issue Game: Can we close this? (15 min -) -  issues (as time permits): 
• Review AIP 1.0
• Open Discussion / Next Week Topics

Next Week

• AIP 1.0.0 

Future Topics

• DIF Interop Project - Project is proceeding, connect the communities at IIW
• DKMS status
• Credential Fraud:  Example how in ACA-Py to verify same link secret across multiple credentials in presentation
• Schema interop - how to reused schema across different networks Robert Mitwicki(RFC in progress)
• Using WebSocket as a way to communicate back to the mobile/desktop wallet (Agent (services or user) as a proxy for communication between service and digital wallet) Robert Mitwicki 
• Formal protocol verification techniques
  • https://github.com/SvenHammann90/SSI/blob/master/RWOT_9/Topic_Paper_RWOT.md (using ProVerif)
  • https://github.com/johncallahan/needham_shroeder_spin (non-Aries example using SPIN/Promela)
• What's left for DID Exchange protocol?
  • Some discussion in: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/366

Action items

Call Recording