2020-01-15-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)

Summary:

Planned:

• Work updates
• Summary of proposed changes to DIDComm
• Progress on VDRI

Note: This call is Recorded. Recordings posted at the bottom of the page.

Date

15 Jan 2020 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

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Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• Hyperledger edX course - Introduction to Hyperledger Sovereign Identity Blockchain Solutions: Indy, Aries & Ursa
• Launch of ACA-Py User Group (ACA-Pug) and #aries-cloudagent-python
• Hyperledger Developer Relationship Management meeting is today at 9AM Pacific

Related Calls

• Previous Aries Working Group calls
• DIF DIDComm WG Call: Rolling Agenda.
• Identity Implementors Working Group call
  • Main place to get project updates, release status, and announcements.

Release Status and Work Updates

• Aries Protocol Test Suite
• Aries Shared:
  • Aries KMS
  • Verifiable Data Registry Interface (VDRI) library
  • Other Core Libraries (pack / unpack)
• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov) - Latest is Release 0.4.0 on PyPi - some internal breaking changes regarding plugins
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
  • 2019-12-17 Framework Go Weekly Planning
  • RFC implementation status and Wishlist
  • Continuing efforts on routing & relays, crypto/kms, WebAssembly, generic JSON messages, JWE envelopes.
  • WASM is working for DID Exchange from a browser (running the WASM) to a routing agent. Next we want to show DID Exchange between browsers.
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
• Aries-StaticAgent-Python - Now up to 0.6.1; more details
• Aries-Toolbox
• 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
• Migration from LibIndy
  • LibVCX 0.5.0 with Aries protocol support released today.
• Ursa 0.3.0 release in November
  • 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.

RFC Progress

• Rich Schema RFC headed to an APPROVED status, Troy had some comments on how the Link Secrets tie to W3C spec.
• Proposal to renumber RFC 0289
• Progress on JWE envelopes (RFC 334).
• Draft RFCs on Generic JSON Messages and HTTP over DIDComm.

Other Business

• • Current state and direction of DIDComm (Sam Curren)

Future Topics

• Next call
  • Q&A about the Aries Framework Go Никита Хатеев
• Other:
  
  • Aries KMS design
    • Define approved algorithms
    • Define plugin interface
    • 3rd party libraries we could leverage:
      • Google Tink as an encryption library
  • Hubs vs Agents
    • https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2019/07/23/rhythm-and-melody-how-hubs-and-agents-rock-together
  • Status and future of wallet query language
  • IOT best practices (Robert Mitwicki, Adam Burdett , Lohan Spies )
  • DID Resolution W3C and Sam's concerns: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/130
  • Architecture of Aries Verifiable Credentials Proof Formats (Mike Lodder)

Action items

Call Recording