2021-02-11 : Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

On Today's Call:

Review: Working Group status updates
Presentation: Riley Hughes from Trinsic is presenting some of their new developments (https://trinsic.id).

Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom: https://zoom.us/my/hyperledger.community.3?pwd=UE90WHhEaHRqOGEyMkV3cldKa2d2dz09

Date

11 Feb 2021 4PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

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Attendees

Name (Organization) <email>
Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
Alexander Jonsson (Laniakea Health) <alex@seropass.me>
Mike Bailey(Paramount Software) <mbailey@paramountsoft.net>
Michael Herman(Trusted Digital Web/Hyperonomy Digital Identity Lab/Parallelspace Corporation) <mwherman@parallelspace.net>
Daniel Bachenheimer (Accenture) <daniel.bachenheimer@accenture.com>
Sam Curren
Charalampos Savvaidis
Dale Jones
Horacio Nunez
Nathan George
Riley Hughes
Stephen Curran

Announcements

Thoughtful Biometrics - March 9,10,12 thoughtfulbiometrics.org
IIW Workshop #32 (Apr 2021), online, https://internetidentityworkshop.com

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

Main Identity WG
- Meeting Notes: 2021-02-03
  - Discussion of identity topics to be addressed in 2021
  - Presentation slides: IDWG-Roadmap 2021.pdf
  - Recording: Video

Hyperledger Indy
- Contributors Meeting
  - 2021-02-04 Special: Upgrade Indy
    - Indy CI/CD pipeline for Node & Plenum is moving to GitHub Actions (merged?)
    - Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade
      - Needs an Ursa upgrade (depends on libssl1.0.0)
      - Upgrade Python to 3.8
    - Indy SDK Release
      - RC published and being tested (1.16, Build 170)
      - Ready to release
    - Upgrade paths for Stewards: upgrade Indy Node and then upgrade Ubuntu
    - Indy Monitoring - https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node-monitor
- Indy/Aries Shared Libraries
  - Next up – merging branch into Aries Cloud Agent Python main to enable use.

Hyperledger Aries
- Aries Working Group meetings:
  - Meeting Agenda & Notes: Aries Working Group
  - WG A: 2021-02-10-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
    - Presentation and discussion on face recognition biometrics and identity solutions from Applied Recognition Corp.
    - Sources: https://github.com/AppliedRecognition/
  - WG B: 2021-02-10-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
    - Aries Exit from Incubation
      - Criteria: https://tsc.hyperledger.org/project-incubation-exit.html
      - Being presented to the Technical Steering Committee (TSC)
    - Peer DID Method 2 Updated - https://github.com/decentralized-identity/peer-did-method-spec/pull/26/files
    - Aries Interop Protocol V2
      - Updates and realignment of subtargets
      - https://github.com/swcurran/aries-rfcs/blob/0d5ce50ca8d0b4834f275c3e8e906a6dfd19d821/concepts/0302-aries-interop-profile/README.md
      - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/579 (Main AIP 2.0 PR)
- Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
  - Release 0.6.0 (almost) available, includes
    - OOB/DID Exchange support merged – testing/tweaking
    - Adjustments for supporting aries-askar – mostly internal
    - Multi-Tenant Support - SICPA and collaborators (Animo, Anon Solutions)
    - Mediator Support – Indicio - ACA-Py as mediator, ACA-Py as mediator client (through connections protocol) merged; Admin API, fixes in progress; need to add support for DID Exchange/OOB
  - In Progress:
    - Persistent Queues – Kiva – WIP PR submitted using redis
    - Credential Exchange V2 (RFC 0453/0454)
    - Getting to W3C Verifiable Credential support with ZKP and Selective Disclosure with Revocation.
      - DHS SVIP JSON-LD Verifiable Credential exchange in Aries Protocols
      - https://hackmd.io/@animo/acapy-bbs-2
- Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)
  - Enabling use of aries-askar to ACA-Py as a startup option.
- Aries Language Frameworks and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
- Tools
  - Aries Toolbox – supports ACA-Py 5.3 https://github.com/thclab/aries
  - Aries Protocol Test Suite - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-protocol-test-suite
  - Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-agent-test-harness
    - Aries Framework Go interop in progress – uncovering little stuff!

Hyperledger Ursa
- Homepage: Hyperledger Ursa (EOL)
- 2021-02-03 Meeting Agenda
  - Presentation from Avradip on ZK frameworks.
    1. Introduction to ZK proofs (at a high level, theory-based).
    2. Discussion of zkinterface.
  - Discussion on what to do with pairing plus.
  - Ursa HW interface (interest?)
  - Go implementation of BBS+

Trust Over IP Foundation
- Main site: https://trustoverip.org/
- Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation
- All Members Meeting
  - 20 Jan 2021: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-01-20+All+Members+Meeting+Notes
- Steering Committee Meeting
  - 10 Feb 2021: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-02-03+Steering+Committee+%28Special+Topic%29+Meeting+Page
  - Recording: Link
  - Good Health Pass
    - Presentation on Covid-19 efforts (Charles Walton)
    - Partnership of many health-related organizations
    - Website: https://www.goodhealthpass.org
    - Whitepaper: Download the white paper
- Webinar: Trust over IP and Government (15 Dec 2020)
  - Verifiable Credentials, passports, Covid Credential Initiative (CCI)
  - https://zoom.us/rec/share/j4vfX47K1RPgZlmGHpfrC6YEh6RXGs86KiEdTmq6z4VUOFM7Aa97u-6Yzz5rZ6dx.jg5BtbuA5HnxYOVL
- ToIP Working Groups:
  - Communications Committee: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Communications+Committee
  - Governance Stack
  - Technical Stack
  - Utility Foundry
  - Ecosystem Foundry
  - Decentralized Semantics
  - Concepts and Terminology

DIF DIDComm Working Group
- Rolling Agenda: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm/blob/main/agenda.md
- 8 Feb 2021 meeting:
  - Recording: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/cqnWgNI8NweatY1vGGx3vb4MjujVuIuaz8OxVpMlQLY89aW1UbZtiHer7x0Fig47.aGWlrp24UnZ7sTx0
  - Discussing attachments
DIF Interoperability Group
- Main: https://identity.foundation/interop/
- Wiki: https://www.notion.so/Interoperability-WG-a42995c37e2a4511a10aea96cdbccc38
- Rolling agenda: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/interoperability/blob/master/agenda.md
  - 10 Feb 2021:
    - Credential Revocation
      - Recording and Slides
    - Context and Recommended Advanced Readings:
      - W3C-CCG VC Extensions registry section on credential status
      - Slides and transcript+audio recording of Mike Lodder's overview of past (CL) and future (BBS+?) accumulator schemes, April 2020
      - Slides and sparse notes from Indy Interopathon (Sept2020)
      - Digital Bazaar's LD-based revocation-list-2020 spec
      - API readme for AnonCreds (from HL ursa repo)
Sovrin Foundation
- Technical Governance Board (TGB)
  - 4 Feb 2021 Meeting Minutes:
    - New Slack channel
    - Plan for removing token code from MainNet (Chris)
      - Sovrin SIP
      - Indy HIPE
    - Planning steward upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04 (Richard)
      - Status of Indy release with upgraded Ubuntu.
      - Need to ensure stewards upgrade in batches of 5, so as not to interrupt consensus.
    - The future of the Sovrin.deb package (Richard)
- Steward Council
  - 4 Feb 2021
  - Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rmGtvby6Fb2jSc8o8K-MeTpB7fJp8NBnVOlLiVyoBdA/edit#slide=id.g4227fd63e5_0_225
  - Agenda
    - TGB Update
    - Indy Node Updates (GitHub Actions and Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade)
    - Indy SDK: Absa is helping move Indy SDK to GitHub Actions
      - Discussion of Indy SDK's Future: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/pull/2329
    - New Sovrin Slack Channel : https://sovrinfoundation.slack.com/archives/C01KLN04274