2023-04-06: Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

On Today's Call:

Review: Working Group status updates

Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91329633752?pwd=elFrVUhOY3lybmRMMEtLS2MwMFNNdz09

Date

06 Apr 2023 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

Call Recording: Hyperledger Identity Implementers WG Recording

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Char Howland (Indicio, PBC) <char@indicio.tech>
Adam Burdett (Indicio, PBC) <adam@indicio.tech>

Announcements

IIW: April 18-20
Next Identity Implementers Call will be canceled for IIW

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

Main Identity WG
- Latest meeting: 2022-08-03
  - Identity in the Metaverse: Vipin Bharathan (dlt.nyc)

Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG
- 2023-03-28 Indy Contributors Call
  - Roadmap discussion
    - Cleaning up issues and PRs on repos
    - Tombstoning
    - Overlay Capture Architecture
    - Indy Node Monitor
    - Read replicas
    - Firewalls in Indy
- DID Indy Method
  - Note: Effective April 26, 2022, this call has been merged into the bi-weekly Indy Contributors Meeting.
  - Dominic Wörner's Presentation and Demo of Indy VDR changes: 20220412 DID Indy - Indy-VDR Updates Overview.mp4
  - Daniel Bluhm's Presentation and Demo of Indy Node changes: 20220405 DID Indy - Indy-Node Updates Overview.mp4
  - Spec: https://hyperledger.github.io/indy-did-method/
  - Source: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-did-method

Hyperledger Aries
- Aries Working Group meetings:
  - 2023-04-05 Aries Working Group Call
    - OpenID4VC
    - OCA Demo
    - DID Peer Progress
  - 2023-03-29 Aries Working Group Call
    - did:peer:3
    - Issue Credential Short Circuit PR
    - Issue Credential 2.1 learning
    - Nessus DIDComm demo - Thomas Diesler (Red Hat) - recording of the presentation, demo and discussion
- Aries Bifold User Group (React Native & Typscript)
  - - 2023-03-28 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting
      - Mediator Issues Review
      - Updating the Node version
  - Discord: https://discord.com/channels/905194001349627914/941708242030063656
- Aries Cloud Agent Python User Group
  - 2023-03-21 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
    - Update and Demo of BC Gov CWU – anoncreds-rs library in ACA-Py - Indicio
      - Quick Update walkthrough: https://hackmd.io/@dbluhm/anoncreds-project-update
      - Design Doc: https://hackmd.io/@dbluhm/anoncreds-design-doc
      - Open PR: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python/pull/2191
    - ACA-Py Upgrades – recent news
- Aries Language Frameworks, Libraries, and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
  - Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)
    - Aries Shared Components
      - now installable via pip; github actions build and test for Windows, Mac and Linux
      - indy-vdr - release 0.3.4 https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
      - indy-shared-rs - indy-credx release 0.3.1 https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-shared-rs
      - aries-askar (storage) - release 0.2.2 https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-askar
  - Aries-Framework JavaScript
    - 2023-03-30 Aries Framework JS Meeting notes
      - Open PRs and issues for 0.4.0 release
      - JSON-LD enabled by default?
    - 2023-03-23 Aries Framework JS Meeting notes
      - indy-vdr proxy
      - Continue the conversation about “prioritisation for 0.5.0”
- Tools (great for interoperability testing)
  - Aries Toolbox (v 0.1.0; active) https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-acapy-plugin-toolbox
  - Aries Protocol Test Suite (v 0.1.0; last update Jul 2019) - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-protocol-test-suite
  - Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-agent-test-harness
    - Test Run Status: https://aries-interop.info
    - New! Mobile Wallet Test Agent for any mobile wallet
Hyperledger Ursa
- Meeting Recordings
- 19 January 2023
- 7 December 2022
  - Open invitation for a maintainer or contributor to take over running the call
- 2022 Q3 Hyperledger Ursa
  - Project health: shaky but optimistic
  - No new maintainers or contributors have been added this quarter
  - Work continues on the security vulnerability mentioned in the last report
  - Code review and assessment of Ursa was completed this past quarter and published by the Digital Identity Lab of Canada (IDLab)
    - Only relatively minor issues identified
  - Hyperledger AnonCreds new project may increase focus and activity in Ursa

Hyperledger AnonCreds
- 2023-03-27 AnonCreds Specification Working Group Meeting
  - Update on the AnonCreds V2.0 Working Group
  - Hyperledger AnonCreds Workshop – late May, early June
  - IIW Sessions – proposals, plans
  - PRs and Issues
  - Checkin: anoncreds-rs implementation progress, requests

Trust Over IP Foundation
- Main site: https://trustoverip.org/
- Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation
- All Members Meeting
  - 15 March 2023: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-03-15+All+Members++Meeting+Notes
    - AntiTrust Laws Training:
    - Ecosystem Foundry Guest Speaker
    - Interaction Patterns Task Force
    - Communications Committee - call for participants
    - Guest Speaker: Liz Tanner, Secretary of Commerce, State of Rhode Island - Rhode Island leads on digital identity
- Steering Committee Meeting
  - 22 March 2023: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-03-22+Steering+Committee+Discussion+Meeting+Notes
    - Special Topic Speaker - Viky Manaila, Trust Services Director for Intesi Group eIDAS2.0 - latest development
    - Slides
- ToIP Working Groups:
  - Communications Committee: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Communications+Committee
    - All blogs: https://trustoverip.org/about/news/
    - 10 March 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-03-10+Communications+Committee+Meeting+Notes
      - BLOG Updates and Approvals:
      - NIST 800-63-4 ToIP Comments and Unified Decentralized Identity cover:
      - LF Digital Trust Initiative (a marketing initiative) content development (15 min)
  - Governance Stack
    - 23 March 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-03-23+GSWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Recording
      - Governance takeaways from Bhutan’s presentation on NFID given at Ecosystem Foundry WG
      - Creating two new TFs
        Museum Pass TF
        Credential Issuer Governance TF
    - Task Force:
      - Governance Architecture TF
  - Technology Stack Working Group
    - 29 March 2023: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-03-29+TSWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Task force reports
      - ToIP Glossary Workspace Report
      - Updating our conceptual diagram of the ToIP stack
    - Special Topics Task Forces
      Technology Architecture TF — Wenjing Chu Drummond Reed
      - Good progress on three remaining major action items: glossary, revised conceptual diagram, and use cases
      Trust Registry TF — Darrell O'Donnell Antti Kettunen
      - TF has made several key decisions, starting with an objective statement that focuses on the definition of the Trust Registry Protocol
      - TF is now working on the logical model and a Swagger API definition
      Trust Spanning Protocol TF — Drummond Reed Daniel Hardman
      - Next major step is consolidation of the proposals
        Proposal #1: Sam Smith
        Proposal #2: Daniel Hardman
        Proposal #3: Wenjing Chu
        Proposal #4: Michael Herman
      - Hoping for completion of a full draft by the Fall 2023 IIW
      ACDC TF — Samuel Smith Phil Feairheller
      - TF is also working to advance the KERI, CESR, and ACDC specs at IETF in San Francisco in late July
      AI & Metaverse (AIM) Technology TF
      - Plan: write two white papers and a blog post: link to the proposal for these deliverables
  - Utility Foundry
    - Hiatus
      - Group members have joined with the Governance Architecture task force
    - Last meeting: 7 June 2022
      - Deliverable 1: Review Discussion -ToIP Layer 1 - Utility Foundry - Google Docs
  - Ecosystem Foundry
    - 16 March 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+2023-03-16+Meeting+-+Bhutan
      - Meeting Deck
      - Presentation Deck
      - Why SSI instead of PKI?
      - Convincing the government about the risks and concerns of having a centralized database with lots of people accessing it was a lot of work
  - Concepts and Terminology
    - 27 March 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-03-27+CTWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Update on TEv2 progress
      - Update on TSWG Glossary Workspace
      - Mental Models Task Force
    - 13 March 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-03-13+CTWG+Meeting+Notes
      - Update on TEv2 progress
      - Update on Technology Stack WG Glossary progress

Decentralized Identity Foundation
- DIF DIDComm Spec Working Group
  - Rolling Agenda: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm/blob/main/agenda.md
  - Current Agenda: https://hackmd.io/pUsOUZa8QHKJTSgf5O6HfQ?both
  - RFC Repository: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-messaging
  - Update to WG: Meeting every 1st Monday of the month
  - 3 April 2023
    - DIDComm v2.1 - ION compatiblity
      - https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-messaging/pull/436

- DIF DIDComm Users Group
  - Update: moving from un-sync to sync meetings
    - At the same timeslot at the DIDComm WG meetings, every 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Mondays of the month
    - Meetings: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-usergroup/tree/main/meetings
  - Meeting notes on discord channel: https://discord.com/channels/900385725462229022/911224279885033533
  - 27 March Meeting:
    - April 2023 IIW - DIDComm V2 Interopathon: https://hackmd.io/j6U6JpQ2SRexSUKL7i2XRg?view
- DIF Interoperability Group
  - Main: https://identity.foundation/interop/
  - Wiki: https://www.notion.so/Interoperability-WG-a42995c37e2a4511a10aea96cdbccc38
  - Rolling agenda: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/interoperability/blob/master/agenda.md
  - 5 April
    - Recording
    - Brett Shambaugh presented on Verifiable Credentials Lifecycle and a Credential Comparison Matrix
  - 8 March
    - Recording
    - Presentation from Ryan Wisneky on Rapid Data Warehousing

- IoT Special Interest Group
  - DIF Steering Committee approved the creation of an IoT Special Interest Group
  - Participating in the IoT SIG does not require being a member of DIF so anyone who is interested is welcome
  - Sign up for the mailing list: https://lists.identity.foundation/g/IoT-SIG
  - 29 March 2023 Meeting
    - Recording
    - Mateus Sousa presented on IoT Architecture
  - 1 March 2023 Meeting
    - Recording
    - Use case: asset-based carbon reporting
  - Meeting recordings
  - Discord channel

W3C Standard
- DID Working Group
  - Charter: https://www.w3.org/2020/12/did-wg-charter.html
  - Meetings: https://www.w3.org/2019/did-wg/
    - W3C Members are invited to join this Working Group. Individuals who wish to participate as Invited Experts (i.e., they do not represent a W3C Member) should refer to the policy for approval of Invited Experts. The group also welcomes non-Members to contribute technical submissions for consideration upon their agreement to the terms of the W3C Patent Policy.
  - 11 Feb 2022
    - https://www.w3.org/2019/did-wg/Meetings/Minutes/2022-02-11-did
    - DID Method: "did:id"
    - DID Method: "did:keri"
- Community Credentials Group
  - 4 April 2023
    - W3C CCG Verifiable Credentials API Call
  - 14 March 2023
    - W3C CCG Traceability Call
Other?

Identity Special Interest Group