2023-05-24 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

Open Wallet Foundation

Date

24 May 2023 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

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Attendees

Sam Curren (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
Warren Gallagher (AffinitiQuest)<warren@affinitiquest.io>
Charles Lanahan <charles.lanahan@gmail.com>
John Jordan (BC Gov) <john.jordan@gov.bc.ca>
Tracy Kuhrt
Helen Garneau (Indicio) <helen@indicio.tech>
Karim Stekelenburg (Animo)<karim@animo.id>
@Tim Bloomfield <tim.bloomfield@ontario.ca>
Peter Janes (Abdagon AG) <peter.janes@abdagon.com>
Ryan Koch (Indicio) <ryan@indicio.tech>
Akiff Manji (BC Gov / Petri Dish Development) <amanji@petridish.dev>
Ken Ebert (Indicio) <ken@indicio.tech>
@Daniela Barbosa (Hyperledger Foundation)- <dbarbosa@linuxfoundation.org>
Jason Sherman (BC Gov) <jason@usingtechnolo.gy>
Berend Sliedrecht (Animo) <berend@animo.id>
Jorge Flores (Entidad) <jorge@entidad.io>
Andre Kudra (esatus AG) <a.kudra@esatus.com>
Alexandra Walker (Indicio) <alex.walker@indicio.tech>

Welcome / Introductions)

Announcements

June 7-9 https://diceurope.org/
Hackathon – https://didhack.xyz/ – need an Aries Developer to monitor Discord to answer questions from participants
AnonCreds Workshop May 31, 2023 08:00 AM

Release Status and Work Updates

Aries Agent Test Harness -- https://aries-interop.info
Aries Shared Components - Indy SDK replacements
- Indy Verifiable Date Registry - Ledger Interface https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
  - Release 0.4.0-dev14
  - Release 0.5.0 will have breaking changes, including did:indy branch merged into main.
- Aries Askar secure storage - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-askar
  - Release 0.2.8
- AnonCreds Rust - https://github.com/hyperledger/anoncreds-rs
  - Release 0.1.0-dev16
- Shared Rust Library/CredX (AnonCreds) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-shared-rs - being replaced by AnonCreds Rust
  - Release 0.3.2 tagged
Frameworks:
- Aries-CloudAgent-Python https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python, Meetings: ACA-Pug Meetings
  - 0.8.1 released – focused on the upgrade command, most relevant to multi-use invitations – including mediators.
  - New documentation site: https://aca-py.org
- Aries-Framework-JavaScript https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript, Meetings: Framework JS Meetings
  - Version 0.3.3 released - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/releases
  - Version 0.4.0 in progress - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/releases/tag/v0.4.0-alpha.87
- Aries VCX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx, Meetings: Aries-VCX Meetings
  - Release 0.53.0 https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx/releases/tag/0.53.0
- Picos as Aries agents (https://github.com/Picolab/aries-cloudagent-pico)
  - Phil Windley has students working on a DIDComm v2 version of ACA-Pico
- Less active repos:
  - Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go, Meetings: aries-framework-go)
  - Aries-Framework-DotNet (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-dotnet)
Mobile:
- Aries Mobile Agent React Native, aka Aries Bifold https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native, Meetings: Aries Bifold User Group Meetings
  - Bifold Summit Happening now – Bifold Summit 2023
  - BCGov has realeased an Aries Bifold version, rebranded w/ BC blue/theme/etc (BC wallet)
- Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin aka Aries MAX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobileagent-xamarin)
aries-mediator-service – a DIDComm Mediator in a Box
aries-endorser-server – an Indy Endorser in a Box (in development)
Aries-Toolbox

Discussion Topics

Open Wallet Foundation
- Tracy Kuhrt - https://discord.com/channels/905194001349627914/1108478336751108127
- Important Things (opinion of Sam)
  - Continuity of Community
    - Meetings, Wikis, Calls, Calendars
    - All existing people, work continues with as little disruption as possible.
    - This should not be an issue, as long as organizational support is present.
  - Continuity of Brand
    - Aries as a brand needs to live in only one place, at least for the near future.
    - Wiki Page: Hyperledger Aries (wiki page)
    - Announcement Post: https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2019/05/14/announcing-hyperledger-aries-infrastructure-supporting-interoperable-identity-solutions
  - Promotion of Community
Notes from last meeting on the topic
- The Opportunity
  - A potential re-homing of Aries to OWF
- The Circumstances
  - Community needs decisions together
- The Challenges
- Notes on discussion and questions to be clarified
  - High ambition level of OWF
    - Goal is to create code that has relevance in code that meets regulatory requirements (e.g. as part of the EU Digital Identity Wallet)
    - Aries features and approaches can gain better representation in compliance and regulatory settings employing wallets (key leverage point for Aries community)
    - Outreach to European Commission already established at OWF
  - Funding
    - 300 orgs listed in doc
    - https://openwallet.foundation/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2023/02/OpenWallet-Foundation-Overview.pdf
    - 41 listed current sponsors
    - 7 million draft budget?
    - Funding state? Will fundraising match needs?
    - Difficulty of orgs being members of All The Things.
      - Time
      - Money
  - Project Support from Hyperledger
    - Hyperledger social reach is larger
    - Training workshop organized by HyperLedger
  - Code and Standards being co-located in the same org is difficult
  - Aries implementing standards designed outside of Aries
    - mDL
    - OpenID4VerifiableCredentials
    - Beyond Aries?
  - OWF explicitly does not want to create standards, OWF core is creating code to implement standards
  - Perception of the scope of Aries? What Aries does/is:
    - RfCs
    - Code matching RfCs
    - Interop Profiles
  - ToDo: More clearly communicate what Aries does, also towards OWF

Other Business

Future Topics

Niels Klomp offered a deeper dive into the openid4vc related flows
Thomas - Nessus DIDComm 0.23.2 First Release
- Wallet abstraction for AcaPy + Nessus native
- Camel Http Endpoint for Nessus agent
- Support for RFC0434 Out-of-Band Invitation V1 & V2
- Support for RFC0023 Did Exchange V1
- Support for RFC0048 Trust Ping V1 & V2
- Support for RFC0095 Basic Message V1 & V2
- CLI to work with supported protocols and model

State-of-union of Aries projects
decorator for redirection after proofs. - existing?

Action items

Call Recording

https://youtu.be/ed58MI2Mviw

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