2020-07-16 Identity WG Implementers Call
- Steve McCown
- Lynn Gray Bendixsen
- Sam Curren
- Marvin Berstecher
Owned by Steve McCown
Summary
Planned
- Project updates
- Kiva Presentation – Horacio Nunez
Connection Info
The call takes place over Zoom here https://zoom.us/j/244779296
Reminder to the host: we plan to record this call.
Date
4PM UTC, 9AM PDT, 10AM MDT, 12AM EDT
Welcome/Introductions
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Attendees
- Name (Organization) <email>
- Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
- Lynn Gray Bendixsen (Sovrin Foundation and Indicio) <lynn@sovrin.org>
- Daniel Bachenheimer (Accenture) daniel.bachenheimer@accenture.com
- Sam Curren (Indicio.tech) <sam@indicio.tech>
- Nathan George (Kiva) <nathang@kiva.org>
- Marvin Berstecher (esatus AG) <m.berstecher@esatus.com>
Announcements
- SSI Covid-19 group (http://fightthevirus.world)
- Sovrin Technical Governance Board – seeking nominees
- Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org)
- DIF Interop WG Charter Draft
- Get Well card for John Jordan https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_kp34wZs=/
Working Group Reports and Release Plans
- Main Identity WG
- Meeting notes
- Hyperledger Cactus Identity
- Connects data models between chains; prevents vendor lock-in
- How to attest identities between various DLTs
- Related to Sam Smith's Keri project:
- Covid-19 discussion
- Trust Over IP presentation and discussion in the next meeting
- Vipin presentation on various Identity app approaches from other countries
- Hyperledger Indy
- Code Management Updates
- Migrate Jira to Github issues
- Moving from Jenkins to GitHub actions
- Revocation 2.0
- Contributors Meeting
- Revocation 2.0 (target: available Summer 2020)
- 2020-07-07 Indy Contributors Call
- Indy Node
- June: New Ursa, including better hashing. Rich schemas objects. Bug fixes. Also a statically linked ZMQ tool.
- Slowing release cadence to every-other month-ish.
- Indy SDK
- No releases planned
- Indy Catalyst
- Continued evolution - work on non-Aries elements - Solr indexing...
- https://github.com/bcgov/aries-vcr
- Continued evolution - work on non-Aries elements - Solr indexing...
- Indy Semantics WG
- ODCA pilots underway
- The agenda, video, notes, etc. from the HL Indy Semantics WG call:
- Code Management Updates
- Hyperledger Aries
- Aries Working Group meetings:
- Meeting Agenda & Notes: Aries Working Group
- WG A: 2020-07-15-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
- Human Colossus Foundation
- WG B: 2020-07-15-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
- Aries Storage - Andrew Whitehead
- OOB Reuse
- Credential Issue Replacement_ID
- Aries Protocol Test Suite - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-protocol-test-suite
- Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-agent-test-harness
- Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
- Aries Cloud Agent Python - ACA-Py User Group (ACA-Pug) Bi-weekly meetings
- Release 0.5.1
- Revocation based on anoncreds 1.0 has been merged into master and will be in the next release.
- Static Agent Python - Release 0.7.1 - Patch to accept base64url encoded values with or without padding
- Toolbox - Various improvements including Transaction Author Agreement support for Indy ledgers requiring it
- Aries Cloud Agent Python - ACA-Py User Group (ACA-Pug) Bi-weekly meetings
- Tools
- Aries Protocol Test Suite
- Aries Toolbox
- Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)
- indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
- Verifiable Data Registry (VDR; ledger)
- Remaining work: Design doc
- As an Aries interface becomes standardized, will add that API layer
- indy-credx / aries-credx
- Rust layer that wraps Anoncreds (1.0 currently)
- https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
- https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx
- Ran a branch of ACAPy with Aries Credx instead of LibIndy
- Aries-Shared-Util
- Pack / Unpack
- Not started yet
- Aries-KMS
- Mike's presentation in Aries WG A
- Mike and Cam's aries-core-rs → aries-kms-mayaguez
https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-kms-rs - Indy wallet crate might move to start another aries-kms implementation → aries-kms-vostok
- indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
- Aries Language Frameworks and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
- Aries Working Group meetings:
- Hyperledger Ursa
- Meeting Agendas and Notes
- Presentations
- Discussed:
- Enhanced Privacy ID from Bilinear Paring (https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/095.pdf)
- WASM Pr for BBS+ signatures
- Non-revocation range tree RFC
- Cryptographic accumulators
- Trust Over IP Foundation
- https://trustoverip.org/
- Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation
- Whitepaper: https://trustoverip.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2020/05/toip_introduction_050520.pdf
- ToIP Interoperability Profile: main artifact
- ToIP Working Groups:
- Sovrin
- New Board of Trustees formed: https://sovrin.org/the-sovrin-foundation-announces-formation-of-a-new-board-of-trustees/
- New Steward Council formed
- Seeking Technical Governance Board nominees
- Network is healthy with near 100% uptime
- DIF DIDComm Working Group
- WG Rolling Agenda
- Zero Round Trip (0RTT)
- Outlining changes that are needed to Aries RFCs.
- DIF Interoperability Group
- https://identity.foundation/interop/
- Participation does not require DIF membership
- Discussing operating charter
- W3C Standard
- Verifiable Credentials Working Group
- DID Working Group
- DID Working Group Face-to-Face this week. Expect freeze to standard in May.
- Other?
Open Discussion
- Kiva Presentation – Horacio Nunez
- Kiva Protocol site: Kiva.global/protocol
- Github repos: https://github.com/kiva?q=&type=public&language=
- Presentation Slides:
Next Meeting Topics
Future Topics
- Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org)
Call Recording