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Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom here https://zoom.us/j/232861185

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

Date

07 Nov 2019 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Announcements

• Aries Workshop/Connectathon December 3-5 in Provo, Utah
  • https://www.meetup.com/Utah-Sovrin-Meetup/events/265714942/
• Webinar on peer DIDs Nov 21 at 1 PM MST, ssimeetup.org
• Other Announcements?

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

• Main Identity WG
  • Discussion on Aadhaar.

    • https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/IWG/2019-10-30

  • Working on the whitepaper (in draft form) - Google Doc is here. 
• Hyperledger Indy
  • Contributors Meeting
    • Discussed future of Plenum ledger.
    • Want people to see Plenum as a general purpose ledger, broader than identity
    • ZMQ upgrade is done. We are happy with it for Node-to-Node communication, and it isn't a current priority to replace it for Node-to-Client communication.
  • Indy Node
    • October release: contains PBFT View Change
    • November release: bug fixes
    • December release: fixing replicas (maybe moving to Aardvark BFT)
  • Indy SDK
    • October and November: bug fixes
    • Evernym is experimenting with LibVCX support for Aries protocols.
  • Indy Catalyst
    • https://github.com/bcgov/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.
    • Migrating into Hyperledger GitHub org
      • Needs more documentation.
  • Indy Semantics WG
    • ODCA pilots underway
    • The agenda, video, notes, etc. from the HL Indy Semantics WG call: 
• Hyperledger Aries
  • Aries Working Group meetings: discussions about naming, plans for core repositories
  • Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
    • Cloud Agent Python - Release 0.3.5 released. Release Notes
    • Static Agent Python - Working on release with return routing, other improvements
  • Aries Protocol Test Suite
    • Works, and ready for test contributions
  • Aries Core Libraries (agent storage, resolvers, comms)
    • Moving Indy Wallet crate into aries-ams (might change the repo name)
  • Aries Language Frameworks and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
• Hyperledger Ursa
  • Ursa 3.0 release is due in November
    • Updated BLS signature (multi-signatures, small-BLS)
    • Compilation optimization for specific hardware
    • Rest of predicates for Anoncreds 2.0 and delegatable credentials
  • Agent Managed storage considerations -
• Sovrin
  • Network updates and extensions
  • Lots of progress by the Guardianship Taskforce

    • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ymWzCwu2Ud6FMGZdU8md03KCvaxmT41-gQYIRXo09Xw/edit?usp=sharing

  • Sovrin Governance Frameworks and Trust Architecture
    • Sovrin Governance Framework v2 is approved, final two week comment period concludes this week
      •  https://sovrin.org/library/sovrin-governance-framework/
      • Includes a new version of the Transaction Author Agreement / Data Processor Addendum
  • Transaction Author Agreement is expected to be enforced on the Sovrin Network "soon" (December / January?)
  • Sovrin APAC meetings have started. 1800-1900 US Pacific

  • Sovrin Foundation Webmeeting Info:

    • The WG meets every other week for two regional one-hour Zoom webmeetings. Upcoming 2019 meeting dates: Nov 4/5, Nov 18/19, Dec 2/3, Dec 16/17.

    • US/EU Region meetings are Mondays 08:00-09:00 Pacific Time, 16:00-17:00 UTC.

    • APAC Region meetings are Mondays 18:00-19:00 Pacific Time, Tuesdays 02:00-03:00 UTC, Tuesdays 3-4PM New Zealand.

• W3C Standards
  • Drummond's slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSuaCI_igQy7H42-ynaaRYySuspY0rBMWjSgmotS56xJmNm19RZFGaPhmCMyJja6A/pub?slide=id.p1
  • Verifiable Credentials Working Group
  • DID Working Group
• Interop and External updates (Dmitri Zagidulin) 
  • Helen's excellent DIDs 101 Non-Technical discussion slides from the CCG call, as mentioned earlier
  • Introduction to Self Sovereign Identity IIW slides by Heather Vescent, Karyl Fowler and Lucas Tétrault
• Other?
  • Diversity, Civility, and Inclusion working group preparing for Hyperledger Global Forum

Open Discussion

• BC.gov OIDC demo, Stephen Curran - OIDC Demo Presentation - Repo: vc-authn-oidc
• Review of Hyperledger Maintainers Summit

Next Meeting Topics

• Nov 21:  Paul Knowles – Overlays Data Capture Architecture (ODCA) presentation and demonstration
• Dec 5th:  Demo of Git commit signing with a DID, Ibrahim El Rhezzali

Future Topics

• Picolabs Agent Demo (Bruce expressed interest in sharing recent work)
• Roadmap coordination between Indy, Aries and Ursa

Action items

Call Recording