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Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom here https://zoom.us/j/244779296 Reminder to the host: we plan to record this call.

Date

30 Jul 2020 4PM UTC, 9AM PDT, 10AM MDT, 12AM EDT

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

Announcements

• SSI Covid-19 group (http://fightthevirus.world) 
• Sovrin Technical Governance Board – seeking nominees
• Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org)
  • Wiki https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation 
  • Whitepaper (https://trustoverip.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2020/05/toip_introduction_050520.pdf) 
• DIF Interop WG Charter Draft 
• Get Well card for John Jordan https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_kp34wZs=/

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

• Main Identity WG
  • Meeting notes
  • Hyperledger Cactus Identity
    • Connects data models between chains; prevents vendor lock-in
    • How to attest identities between various DLTs
    • Related to Sam Smith's Keri project:  
      • Webinar:  https://ssimeetup.org/key-event-receipt-infrastructure-keri-secure-identifier-overlay-internet-sam-smith-webinar-58 
      • Whitepaper:  https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/KERI_WP_2.x.web.pdf
  • Covid-19 discussion
  • Trust Over IP presentation and discussion in the next meeting
  • Vipin presentation on various Identity app approaches from other countries
• Hyperledger Indy
  • Code Management Updates
    • Migrate Jira to Github issues
    • Moving from Jenkins to GitHub actions
    • Revocation 2.0 
  • Contributors Meeting
    • Revocation 2.0 (target:  available Summer 2020)
    • 2020-07-07 Indy Contributors Call
  • Indy Node
    • June: New Ursa, including better hashing. Rich schemas objects. Bug fixes. Also a statically linked ZMQ tool.
    • Slowing release cadence to every-other month-ish.
  • Indy SDK
    
    • No releases planned
  • Indy Catalyst
    • Continued evolution - work on non-Aries elements - Solr indexing... 
    • https://github.com/bcgov/aries-vcr
  • Indy Semantics WG
    • ODCA pilots underway
    • The agenda, video, notes, etc. from the HL Indy Semantics WG call: 
• Hyperledger Aries
  • Aries Working Group meetings:
    • Meeting Agenda & Notes:  Aries Working Group
    • WG A:  2020-07-15-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
      • Human Colossus Foundation 
        • https://humancolossus.foundation/technology

        • Working demo: https://argo.colossi.network

    • WG B:  2020-07-15-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
      • Aries Storage - Andrew Whitehead
      • OOB Reuse
      • Credential Issue Replacement_ID
  • Aries Protocol Test Suite - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-protocol-test-suite
    
  • Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-agent-test-harness
  • Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
    • Aries Cloud Agent Python - ACA-Py User Group (ACA-Pug) Bi-weekly meetings
      • Release 0.5.1                   
      • Revocation based on anoncreds 1.0 has been merged into master and will be in the next release.
    • Static Agent Python - Release 0.7.1 - Patch to accept base64url encoded values with or without padding
    • Toolbox - Various improvements including Transaction Author Agreement support for Indy ledgers requiring it
  • Tools
    • Aries Protocol Test Suite
    • Aries Toolbox
  • Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)
    • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead)  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
      • Verifiable Data Registry (VDR; ledger) 
      • Remaining work: Design doc
      • As an Aries interface becomes standardized, will add that API layer
    • indy-credx / aries-credx
      • Rust layer that wraps Anoncreds (1.0 currently) 
      • https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
      • https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx
      • Ran a branch of ACAPy with Aries Credx instead of LibIndy
    • Aries-Shared-Util
      • Pack / Unpack
      • Not started yet
    • Aries-KMS
      • Mike's presentation in Aries WG A
      • Mike and Cam's aries-core-rs → aries-kms-mayaguez
        https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-kms-rs
      • Indy wallet crate might move to start another aries-kms implementation → aries-kms-vostok
  • Aries Language Frameworks and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
• Hyperledger Ursa
  • Meeting Agendas and Notes  
  • Presentations
  • Discussed:  
    • Enhanced Privacy ID from Bilinear Paring (https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/095.pdf)  
    • WASM Pr for BBS+ signatures
    • Non-revocation range tree RFC
    • Cryptographic accumulators
• Trust Over IP Foundation
  • https://trustoverip.org/ 
  • Wiki:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation 
  • Whitepaper:  https://trustoverip.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2020/05/toip_introduction_050520.pdf
  • ToIP Interoperability Profile:   main artifact 
  • ToIP Working Groups:
    • Governance Stack
    • Technical Stack 
    • Utility Foundry
    • Ecosystem Foundry
    • Decentralized Semantics
    • Concepts and Terminology 
• Sovrin
  • New Board of Trustees formed:  https://sovrin.org/the-sovrin-foundation-announces-formation-of-a-new-board-of-trustees/
  • New Steward Council formed
  • Seeking Technical Governance Board nominees
  • Network is healthy with near 100% uptime
• DIF DIDComm Working Group
  • WG Rolling Agenda 
  • Zero Round Trip (0RTT)
  • Outlining changes that are needed to Aries RFCs.
• DIF Interoperability Group
  • https://identity.foundation/interop/ 
  • Participation does not require DIF membership 
  • Discussing operating charter
• W3C Standard
  • Verifiable Credentials Working Group
  • DID Working Group
    • DID Working Group Face-to-Face this week. Expect freeze to standard in May.
• Other?

Open Discussion

• Mattr Presentation – Kyle Den Hartog

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Future Topics

• Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org) 

Call Recording