Summary

  • Work updates
  • Pull request review process for Indy Node

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Introductions

Attendees

Related Calls and Announcements

Release Status and Work Updates

  • Indy Node
    • November: 1.12.1
    • December / January: 1.23.0
      • Remove replicas (Aardvark BFT) ?
      • Rich Schema progress: encoding object
    • Future
      • Anoncreds 2.0 (Sovrin Foundation)
  • Indy SDK
    • November 1.13.0
      • Issue reported by BC.gov:
        https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/pull/1893
      • Need to include a manual release of iOS artifacts
      • LibVCX support for some Aries protocols
      • Deprecating some docs (IS-1425: Getting Started Guides) and wrappers (IS-1423: Python and DotNet)
      • Bug fixes
    • Future
      • Deprecate  additional wrappers (IS-1424) and LibVCX (IS-1416)
      • GitLab migration alongside Jenkins (Foundation)?
      • Warnings from rust cargo clippy (Mike and Axel), epic: IS-1401
  • Indy Catalyst
    • Production deployment testing: volume loads.
      • Trying to identify performance bottlenecks. Currently think it's calls to the database.
      • Performance problems is preventing going to production.
    • Not yet migrated to Hyperledger. Needs more documentation.
  • 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    • Need to review and prune out-of-date documentation (Alice / Faber treatment of pairwise DIDs is a key pain point)
    • Cloud Compass is building the Linux Foundation EdX courses for Indy and Aries
      • Overview launch date: November 21st
      • More content will follow
  • 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
    • 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
      • BC.gov will implement the existing revocation capability in ACA-Py for use in constrained cases
        • Looking to build against Anoncreds 2.0 as soon as it is available.
        • Unable to contribute to the Anoncreds 2.0 revocation capability at this time - no resources for that work.

Main Business

Future Calls

  • Indy performance analysis (BC.gov)
  • Migration of Indy-SDK to Aries-Core
  • Requirements question: IS-1099, should we allow duplicate credentials from the same issuer?
  • Non-secrets in the Indy Wallet
    • Cam is working on pluggable crypto. The wallet shouldn't decide what encryption you should be using.
    • Use cases where we would want to move keys between wallets
      • Moving the link secret / credential data from one device to another (synchronized storage).
      • Debug use cases
      • Richard's hit other uses cases that were better solved with DID Doc,  pre-signing, signing API.
    • Work-around with the web-crypto API

Action items

  • HIPE #138, Issue #144 (Ken and Brent)
    • Create a PR for changing status to ACCEPTED
    • Check for an Aries RFC
  • PR to RFC #0019 to compare pack/upack to msgpack (Sergey)
  • Richard and Sergey will close old pull requests with a descriptive comment.
  • Mike wants to review the 61 cases of "unsafe" libindy calls and figure out if they are justified.

Call Recording

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