2022-10-19 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

• Firewalls and Indy
• Minor Versions
• Can We Close This?
• Open Discussion

Date

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

Call Recording: 20221019 Aries Working Group Community Meeting Call Recording.mp4

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Attendees                   

• Stephen Curran (BC Gov/Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
• Warren Gallagher (AffinitiQuest) <warren@affinitiquest.io>
• Kim Ebert (Indicio) <kim@indicio.tech>
• Rodolfo Miranda (RootsID)<rodolfo.miranda@rootsid.com>
• Bruce Conrad <bruce_conrad@byu.edu>
• Ariel Gentile<a@2060.io>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• IIW (November 15-17)
• AnonCreds as HL Project
  • Proposal to be presented to the Hyperledger TOC (formerly the TSC) tomorrow 7:00 Pacific / 16:00 Central Europe (Zoom)
  • Google Doc of Presentation- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_hlZZNkY1gmdi3Basz4LRh_U9xK0NTkQ4vTowyWeYeY/edit?usp=sharing
  • Hyperledger HIP PR #7
• Request to start a working group for accelerating DIDComm V2 in ACA-Py, AFJ and AATH – Contact Lance Byrd

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)
    • New PRs to be added to ACA-Py 0.7.5 – cherry picking has commenced.
  • 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)
  • Picos as Aries agents (https://github.com/Picolab/aries-cloudagent-pico)
• 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

• Corporate Firewalls and Indy
  • https://hackmd.io/@n5FW6jwuRfCgchBDNWR3VQ/H1kNlKpmo
  • Happiest path – have Indy Nodes accept HTTPS request. Is that viable? Take the conversation to Indy Contributors call next Tuesday.
• Minor Versions - PR 752 - agreement to merge this - need approval and announcement on Discord to confirm.
• Can We Close This? – Presentation
  • PR 747 Credential Supplements - agreement to merge this - need approvals and announcement on Discord to confirm. Suggest a clarification PR to follow with more motivation/why? content.
  • PR #748: Proposal of RFC for n-wise DID exchanging - this is an "experimental" RFC, but has value and should be merged, pending Maintainer Approval and Discord posting
  • PR #755 OCA for Aries – still in draft, but presentation has notes on recent updates made to the RFC based on feedback received.
    • Suggestion: Cancel (or merge…) PR #740 — updates to RFC0013 Overlay to be up to date. However, since RFC0013 is (more or less) the OCA Specification, it should be archived.
  • PR #746 feat: add shorten url protocol – pointed out to the community that the PR was closed by the author and recreated in the DIF DIDComm repo, as it is a DIDComm feature rather than an "Aries use of DIDComm" feature.
• For future meetings:
  • #745, #737, #736 Push Notification PRs

  • #727 An Ack (RFC 0015) can’t be a FAIL message

• Request for help – Wrap the Aries RFC repo in a Static Site Generator and publish to be a more useful resource. At minimum, we need guidance about how the protocols should be used for those new to the community.
  • Another future discussion.

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