2020-02-27 Identity WG Implementers Call

Summary

• Project updates
• Aries Toolbox

Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom here https://zoom.us/j/244779296 (this is the meeting invite that worked as of 2/13/2020 https://zoom.us/j/244779296)

Reminder to the host: we plan to record this call.

Date

27 Feb 2020 4PM UTC, 9AM PDT, 10AM MDT, 12AM EDT

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>
• Daniel Bluhm (Sovrin Foundation) <daniel.bluhm@sovrin.org>
• Matt Raffel (Kiva) <mattr@kiva.org>
• Daniel Bachenheimer (Acccenture) <daniel.bachenheimer@accenture.com>

• Venu Reddy (Tata Consultancy Services)

• Bruce Conrad (Pico Labs) <bruce_conrad@byu.edu>
• Kelly Cooper
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
• Sam Curren
• Stephen Curran
• Adam Burdett
• Kamlesh Nagware
• Nathan George
• Roland Aersourete
• Craig Allwardt

Announcements

• Hyperledger Global Forum, March 3-6, (https://bit.ly/32vUF9y)
• Internet Identity Workshop, April 28-30, (https://internetidentityworkshop.com)

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

• Main Identity WG
  • Last meeting
  • Next meeting: February 5 with Kim Cameron
    • 2020-02-05 meeting notes with Kim Cameron's slides
  • Discussed new events in India
• Hyperledger Indy
  • Contributors Meeting
    • Collabortation on CI / CD, Indy-Aries-VDR, and W3C Rich Schemas
    • Indy credx (VC based on ZKP)
    • Aries credx (across multiple implementations)
    • Aries KMS
    • Notes and recording
  • Indy Node
    • February: No release, but published a tool for detecting ZMQ network problems and a troubleshooting guide.
  • Indy SDK
    • February: 1.15.0: Bug fixes and new features in LibVCX (Connection Redirect and Reject Proof)
  • Indy Catalyst
    • https://github.com/bcgov/indy-catalyst
    • Will move to Aries instead of Indy: Aries Verifiable Credential Registry
  • Indy Semantics WG
    • ODCA pilots underway
    • The agenda, video, notes, etc. from the HL Indy Semantics WG call: 
• Hyperledger Aries
  • Aries Working Group meetings:
    • Meeting Agenda & Notes:  Aries Working Group
    • WG A: Collaboration on Rich Schemas, shared libraries, and CI / CD. meeting notes 2020-02-26-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
    • WG B: meeting notes 2020-02-12-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon) 
      • Out of band protocol RFC forthcoming.  
    • Next WG A: Discussing Aries-Framework-Go. Notes and recordings
  • Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
    • Cloud Agent Python
      • Release 0.4.1 is pending

        • This will be synchronously deployed with Streetcred, as both will be making a non-backwards compatible change to align with RFCs.

      • Launch of ACA-Py User Group (ACA-Pug) and #aries-cloudagent-python
    • 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 Protocol Test Suite
    • Issue Credential and Present Proof tests done and ready for testing.
  • Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)
    • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead)  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
      • Remaining work: Design doc, FFI, testing, CI / CD
      • As an Aries interface becomes standardized, will add that API layer
    • indy-credx / aries-credx
      • https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
      • https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx
    • Aries-Shared-Util
      • Pack / Unpack
      • Not started yet
    • Aries-KMS
      • Mike working on documentation and architecture as an Aries RFC (KMS architecture) and Ursa RFC (API)
      • 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
  • Aries Language Frameworks and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
• Hyperledger Ursa
  •  Ursa 0.3.2 release in February
    • Added key exchange methods (drop in replacement)
    • Anonymous Credentials
  • RFC submitted for Crypto Construction Language (similar to bitcoin script) 
  • ZMix 0.1.0 expected in January
    • Ursa and ZMix will be separate releases. ZMix is the proving code, and Ursa is everything else.Ursa 0.3.1 release in January.
  • More language wrappers coming.
• Sovrin
  • Looking for volunteers to participate in new Sovrin task forces:
    • Sovrin Governance Framework Meeting link for new Task Force report:  
  • Network updates and extensions
  • Sovrin Governance Frameworks and Trust Architecture
    • Blog post on TAA: https://sovrin.org/how-the-recent-approval-of-the-sovrin-governance-framework-v2-affects-transaction-authors/
    • TAA expected to be enforced in February.
  • Sovrin Guardianship Working Group:

    • First meetings:

      • Friday, 31 January Americas & EMEA meeting @08:30 PST (UTC - 8) = 11:30 EST (UTC -5) = 17:30 CET (UTC +1) = 03:30 (Saturday) Sydney NSW (UTC+11)

        • Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/340998214 Meeting ID: 340 998 214

      • Friday, 31 January APAC meeting @12:00 Sydney NSW (UTC +11) = 17:00 (Thursday) PST (UTC - 8) = 20:00 (Thursday) EST (UTC -5) = 02:00 (Thursday) CET (UTC +1)

        • Zoom link: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/987678751 Meeting ID: 987-678-751

    • https://sovrin.org/library/guardianship-white-paper/

• DIF DIDComm Working Group
  • WG Rolling Agenda 
  • Outlining changes that are needed to Aries RFCs.
• W3C Standards
  • Verifiable Credentials Working Group
  • DID Working Group
    • DID Working Group Face-to-Face this week. Expect freeze to standard in May.
• Other?

Open Discussion

• Aries Toolbox – presentation by Daniel Bluhm (Daniel Bluhm)
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-acapy-plugin-toolbox
    • The Demo Docker setup is here ^^
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-toolbox
  • Slides:

Next Meeting Topics

Future Topics

• Kiva Demo – presentation by Cam Parra (Cam Parra)
• Roadmap coordination between Indy, Aries and Ursa
• The ACA-Py REST API

Action items

Call Recording