2020-06-23 Indy Contributors Call

Summary

The call recording is available here: 2020.06.23 Indy Contributors Call

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Introductions

Attendees

• Stephen Curran  (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
• Lynn Gray Bendixsen (Sovrin Foundation and Indicio Tech) <lynn@sovrin.org>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
• Brent Zundel  (Evernym) <brent.zundel@evernym.com>

Related Calls and Announcements

• Identity Implementer Working Group call (Wiki Page) - every 2nd Thursday

Release Status and Work Updates

• Indy Node
  • Security Release - 1.12.3 is current release.
    • Need an official release.
  • June/July Release Planned 
    • Replacing Indy Crypto with Ursa(Kiva)
      • Test are running as I type...
    • ? More "rich schema" objects
    • ? Ubuntu 20.04 (Kiva) - other dependencies - Jira Issue
• Indy SDK
  • June(?):
    • Indy VDR into LibIndy
    • Indy Credx into LibIndy
• Indy/Aries Shared Libraries
  • Aries Shared:
    • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead)  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
      • No change - only outstanding issue - merge refactoring PR
      • New GUI-based app for Signing Transactions created using indy-vdr - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/endorser-tool
    • indy-credx - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx
      • No progress
      • To be moved to BC Gov and then to Hyperledger
    • indy-shared-rs - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-shared-rs
      • Shared features across indy-vdr and indy-credx
      • pack/unpack on Ursa (not libsodium)
      • To be moved to Hyperledger
    • aries-credx
      • https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
        • 6 most common attribute encodings (but not anoncreds 1 attribute encoding)
      • Can make a non-revocable credential and create proofs.
    • Aries Secure Storage initiatives:
      • Andrew is making progress on this. Covered on Aries WG call. Recording (should be) available on this page.
  • Ursa
    • BBS+, Revocation work 2.0 work
    • Current Release: 0.3.2

Meeting Topics

• Stephen Curran Indy efforts needed by Sovrin
  • Operations - Monitoring, Maintainability, Contributors to Indy
  • Functions - Revocation 2.0, etc.
  • Scalability - Performance Test Process, Optimizations - evolutionary and revolutionary
• Sovrin Network update Lynn Gray Bendixsen
  • Some churn on the networks
  • Security update
  • Some issues with today - "Unreachable nodes" - to be addressed. Still in consensus - 2 nodes can't talk to one other node each.
  • 25 nodes on BuilderNet, 12 nodes on StagingNet and 20 Nodes on MainNet

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