2022-09-14 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

• ActionMenu
• AnonCreds
• PR Review

Date

14 Sep 2022 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

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Attendees                   

• Lance Byrd (RootsID) <lance.byrd@rootsid.com>
• Warren Gallagher (AffinitiQuest.io) <warren@affinitiquest.io>
• Colton Wolkins(Indicio) <colton@indicio.tech>
• Regis Eloi (IDLab) <regis.eloi@idlab.org>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
• Ariel Gentile <a@2060.io>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• Hyperledger Global Forum, Dublin, Sept. 12-14
  • Hyperledger Member Summit Sept 11
  • ToIP Member Summit, Sept. 14
• Rebooting Web of Trust, Den Haag, September 26-30 

Release Status and Work Updates

• Aries Agent Test Harness (https://aries-interop.info)
• Aries Shared Components - Indy SDK replacements
  • Shared Rust Library/CredX (AnonCreds) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-shared-rs
  • Indy Verifiable Date Registry - Ledger Interface https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
  • Aries Askar secure storage - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-askar
    • 0.2.5 release - performance/load work and testing – specific load errors reduced (down to 0.05% error rate), performance up 11%
• Frameworks:
  • Aries-CloudAgent-Python (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python, Meetings: ACA-Pug Meetings)
  • Aries-Framework-JavaScript (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript, Meetings: Framework JS Meetings)
    • Version 0.2.4 released - bugfixes and ActionMenu support
    • Working on 0.3.0 release
      • Generalization - only need formats required to be supported in an instance
      • Documentation site!!!
      • Present Proof v2 - merged today - AnonCreds done, W3C JSON-LD VCs still in progress/DIF PE
      • Basic support for AIP 2.0
  • Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go, Meetings: aries-framework-go) 
  • Aries VCX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx)
  • 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)
    • Aries Framework JavaScript 0.2.2 now merged into Aries Bifold
    • 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
  • working on Pickup support
• aries-endorser-server – an Indy Endorser in a Box (in development)
• Aries-Toolbox
• Aries-SDK-Java
• Ursa (https://www.hyperledger.org/use/hyperledger-ursa, https://github.com/hyperledger/ursa)

Discussion Topics

• ActionMenu further discussions
  • https://didcomm.org/search/?page=1 
  • https://github.com/blu3beri/hgf-demo-wallet
• AnonCreds
  
  • For context, AnonCreds overview and specifications
  • Kaliya's post
  • Daniel Hardman's post
  • Northern Block's post
  • Indicio's post
  • Trinsic's post
• PRs
  
  • ACA-py outbound webhooks - data size

Other Business

Future Topics'

• State-of-union of Aries projects
• OIDC Credential Exchange in Aries - Mike Richardson
• Proxy Ledger Access Followup
• decorator for redirection after proofs. - existing?
• Standardized attribute names for AnonCreds - alignment with VC data model. (Paul Bastian)
  • terms and conditions (as link)
  • machine-readable governance?
• Multiple sigs on a credential - Shivam Sethi

Action items

Call Recording