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Working Group Reports and Release Plans

• Main Identity WG 20192020-1101-2708
  • FATF digital
  • India stack: digital lockers and consent layers
  • Next call: Darrell O'Donnell on digital wallets
• Hyperledger Indy
  • Contributors Meeting
    • Discussion about Aries-KMS
    • Notes and recording
  • Indy Node
    • December, 1.12.1: Improvements to the TAA behavior
    • January: 
      • Rich Schema schema object support https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/pull/1513
  • Indy SDK
    • December, 1.14.1: Improvements to the TAA behavior, LibVCX support for Aries Interop V1, and bug fixes
  • Indy Catalyst
    • https://github.com/bcgov/indy-catalyst
    • Will move to Aries instead of Indy: Aries Verifiable Credential Registry
  • Indy Semantics WG
    • ODCA pilots underway
    • The agenda, video, notes, etc. from the HL Indy Semantics WG call: 
• Hyperledger Aries
  • Aries Working Group meetings:
    • WG A: Update on DIDComm, plans for indy-aries-VDR. Notes and recording.
    • WG B: RFC for HTTP and JSON over DIDComm. Notes and recording.
  • Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
    • Cloud Agent Python
      • Release 0.4.0 released. Release Notes
      • Launch of ACA-Py User Group (ACA-Pug) and #aries-cloudagent-python
    • Static Agent Python - Release 0.7.0 - Working on publishing documentation to Github pages, improving documentation throughout the code, etc.
    • Toolbox - Release soon to lock in plugin to ACA-Py 0.4.0
  • Aries Protocol Test Suite
    • Feature Discovery protocol tests now in test suite thanks to the efforts of Keith Smith
    • Moving on to Issue Credential; first targeting Indy ledger specific tests with the hope of informing design of ledger agnostic tests.
  • Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)
  • Aries Language Frameworks and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
• Hyperledger Ursa
  •  Ursa 0.3.1 release in January
    • Delegate-able credentials
    • Flexible configuration options
  • ZMix 0.1.0 expected in January
    • Ursa and ZMix will be separate releases. ZMix is the proving code, and Ursa is everything else.Ursa 0.3.1 release in January.
• Sovrin
  • Network updates and extensions
  • Sovrin Governance Frameworks and Trust Architecture
    • Official Transaction Author Agreement (TAA): https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/sovrin/blob/master/TAA/TAA.md
    • New TAA is expected to be deployed on Builder Net in January, and enforced on the Sovrin Staging Net in February. Date for enforcement on Main Net still needs to be selected.
    • Sovrin Stewards should have already approved the Governance Framework v2.
• DIF DIDComm Working Group
  • Charter approved.
  • Participants need to agree to the IPR provisions.
• W3C Standards
  • Drummond's slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSuaCI_igQy7H42-ynaaRYySuspY0rBMWjSgmotS56xJmNm19RZFGaPhmCMyJja6A/pub?slide=id.p1
  • Verifiable Credentials Working Group
    • Discussed adopting an "evergreen" approach to standard maintenance
  • DID Working Group
    • Discussed alternative key serialization methods
• Interop and External updates (Dmitri Zagidulin) 
  • Talks continue between the various Personal Data Server communities, with the goal of choosing a standards body, where a common Agent / Data Hub / PDS spec can be incubated.
  • LifeScope Labs http://lifescope.io is announcing plans to implement Solid server, Encrypted Data Vaults and DIF Identity Hub APIs into its open-source personal data store.
• Other?
  • Diversity, Civility, and Inclusion working group virtual meetings

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