2020-06-18 Identity WG Implementers Call

Summary

Planned

Project updates
Open Discussion

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

18 Jun 2020 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)

Announcements

New: SSI Covid-19 group (http://fightthevirus.world)
Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org)
- Recording of the Launch Event 20 May 2020 (https://zoom.us/rec/share/xdV6BO2vzV9Jf9bNw2zQW_dmJ9_mT6a81HUX_aJZmEpcDgqe7Y4AiYjdSKXy_FCT)
- Whitepaper (https://trustoverip.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2020/05/toip_introduction_050520.pdf)
Sovrin Steward Council
- A new Steward Council has been elected and has held its first meeting.
- Steward Council Charter ()
Maintainers: make sure your repos follow the new common structure
- Common Repo structure

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:
    - Webinar: https://ssimeetup.org/key-event-receipt-infrastructure-keri-secure-identifier-overlay-internet-sam-smith-webinar-58
    - Whitepaper: https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/KERI_WP_2.x.web.pdf
- 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)
  - 2020-06-15 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
- 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: 2020-06-17-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
    - Universal Wallet Format
  - WG B: 2020-06-17-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
  - BC Gov has a $25K CDN bounty for adding a backchannel integration with Aries Framework .NET
    - https://digital.gov.bc.ca/marketplace/opportunities/code-with-us/d359da07-d8e2-48eb-89bc-35f9f04aa09c
- 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
- 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
- Aries Language Frameworks and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
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
- Announcement from the Linux Foundation https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/2020/05/cross-industry-coalition-advances-digital-trust-standards/
- https://trustoverip.org/
- Technical Stack Working Group: https://lists.trustoverip.org/g/technical-stack-wg
Sovrin
- New Board of Trustees formed: https://sovrin.org/the-sovrin-foundation-announces-formation-of-a-new-board-of-trustees/
- New Steward Council formed
DIF DIDComm Working Group
- WG Rolling Agenda
- 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

Today was an open discussion of identity topics.

Next Meeting Topics

Future Topics

Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org)

Action items

Work-in-Progress - Welcome all contributors, ideas, options.

Call Recording

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