2019-08-19 Indy Maintainers Call

Summary

• Release updates
• Rich schemas HIPE
• Proposal to improve performance of the Indy SDK CI test pipeline

Timezone: US afternoon and Asia morning

We intend to record this call.

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Attendees

• Name (organization) <email>
• Richard Esplin(Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>

Announcements

Summary of Prior Call

Release Status

• Indy Node
  • August: 1.9.2
    • Bug fix release
  • September: 1.10.0
    • PBFT view change
• Indy SDK
  • August:
    • Finish Authors vs Endorsers
    • Finish proof of possession of payment address
    • Platform Updates: Ubuntu 18.04
  • Future
    • Platfrom Updates: MacOS, CentOS
    • GitLab migration alongside Jenkins (Foundation)?
    • Aries / Indy split
    • Anoncreds 2.0 (Sovrin Foundation, BC.gov?)
•  Ursa
  •  Working on release of 0.2.0
    • ZKP  / ZKLang improvements
    • Debian packages
    • Refactor internal plumbing for anoncreds 2.0, shouldn't impact external interfaces
    • Refactor multi-signature BLS in addition to aggregated signature
•  Aries
  • Agent from Indy Catalyst migrated to aries-cloudagent-python (BC.gov)
  • Initial code migration from Indy SDK repositories
• Indy Catalyst
  • Migrated

Work Updates

• Documentation improvements: Michael B and Stephen C
  • Need to review and prune out-of-date documentation (Alice / Faber treatment of pairwise DIDs is a key pain point)
  • Michael is working on Indy Agent walkthrough using C#
  • Finishing work on ReadTheDocs (2 more weeks?)
• SDK 2.0 architecture / Indy-Aries split (Sergey)
• GitLab migration (Mike and Steve G)
  • Demos in the Identity Implementers WG calls
  • Issues with Jenkins machines because Rust builds run out of memory—workaround increased build time but is a temporary solution
• Advanced Schemas and W3C creds (Ken)
  • Can successfully write and retrieve the Context object from the node code. Will track through all layers up to Aries.
    • https://github.com/ken-ebert/indy-node/commits/master
  • 5 additional objects need to be added.
• Warnings from rust cargo clippy (Mike and Axel)
  • IS-1270 through IS-1274
• New design for revocation / Anoncreds 2.0 (Mike)
  • Would be useful to have a comparison in performance between Anoncreds 1.0 and Anoncreds 2.0
  • First draft is latex document in Ursa repo. Will be published as PDF and HTML.
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/ursa-docs/tree/master/specs/anoncreds2
  • Need a plan for changes to Indy Node
    • HIPE for overall changes, then a design PR for the changes specific to the different repos.
      https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/tree/master/design

Other Business

• Accepting HIPE PR #138, Issue #144
• Improving the performance of the Indy SDK CI pipeline:  Unable to render Jira issues macro, execution error.
• Close PR https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/pull/1048 as something that will be replaced by the advanced schema work?
  • Ken will review the work to see what we can learn.

Future Calls

• Proposal for Fully Qualified DIDs
  • IS-451
  • IS-1358
  • Breaking change in order to go faster and avoid duplicated code?
• New pack / unpack requires disclosure of recipient
  • Cannot hide the receiver of the message like we could with msg_pack
  • Allows having multiple recipients of the same message
  • Should list the drawback in the Aries-RFC? Is there an alternative way that preserves the capability to selectively disclose the recipient?
• Ursa and AMCL
• Architecture questions for Indy SDK:
  
• PostgreSQL wallet to graduate from "experimental" status?
• Maintainership requirements for Indy Node and Indy SDK
• How to handle old pull requests that failed DCO Checks? Close?
• How to handle pull requests for IOS / Swift wrappers? Close and encourage the move to Aries?
• How to handle pull requests for LibVCX? Deprecate?
• HIPE pull requests: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-hipe/pulls

Action items

• Nathan (Daniel)
  • Set up alternate meeting hosts to record
• HIPE #138, Issue #144 (Ken and Brent)
  
  • Create a PR for changing status to ACCEPTED
  • Check for an Aries RFC

Call Recording