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• Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG
  • 2021-03-02 16 Indy Contributors Call
    
    • CI for Indy Node & Plenum - merged
    • CD for Indy Node & Plenum - in progress
    • CI/CD for Indy-SDK - in progress
    • Looking for additional volunteers
  • Next Indy-Node release – soon, pending CD completion
  • Ubuntu 20.04 - progressing, target release date?
  • PR from Indy-Node and Indy-Plenum Stable to Master - PR is ready for review
  • Upcoming 
    • Statement on the future of the Indy SDK: PR 2329
  • • Indy Node
      • Functionality to remove tokens (Richard Esplin)
        • Blocked by system test dependency on sovrin.deb
        • Will split Sovrin specific tests in indy-test-automation into separate repo in sovrin-foundation org
        • Need to move to GitHub Actions pipeline for Sovrin deb.
      • Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade
        • Making good progress, but blocked because there isn't a pipeline.
        • Draft of pipeline based on PR1505 : https://github.com/udosson/indy-plenum/tree/gha-ubuntu-20.04/.github/workflows
      • New branching model
    • Indy SDK
      • Moving to GitHub actions
      • Indy Node release needs a build of Indy SDK with freeze ledgers to do system tests. Currently blocked with publishing to pypi.
    • Indy Monitoring - https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node-monitor
    • Indy/Aries Shared Libraries - donated to Hyperledger (indy-vdr, indy-shared-rs, aries-askar)
    • Hyperledger Contribution Campaign 

• Hyperledger AriesHyperledger Aries
  GREEN!  Hyperledger Aries Proposal to Exit Incubation Status 
  • Aries Working Group meetings:
    • Meeting Agenda & Notes:  Aries Working Group
    • WG A: 2021-03-10-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
      • Verifiable Credential - Overview of data models, VDR, revocation mechanism - demo with KERI based identifiers
        • Presentation: google doc access request link
    • WG B:  2021-03-1024-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
      • Aries Agent Test Harness Interoperability Test Status – presentation for DIF Interoperability WG - Stephen Curran
      • AIP Next 
      • AIP Next (completed/close?)
        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/579 (Main AIP 2.0 PR)
        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/596 - did:key
        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/588 - oob / route coordination 
        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/593 - JSON-LD Attachments 
        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/595 - oob mime type 
        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/587 - Envelope v2
        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/599 - Complexity of multiple format identifiers 
        • AIP 2.0 PRs
      • Merged several PRs
      • Next Week – PRs for AIP 2.0, Issues for AIP 2.0, Status changes for AIP 2.0
  • Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
    • Release 0.6.0 (almost) available, includes
      • OOB/DID Exchange support merged – testing/tweaking
      • Adjustments for supporting aries-askar – mostly internal
      • Multi-Tenant Support -  SICPA and collaborators (Animo, Anon Solutions)
      • Mediator Support – Indicio - ACA-Py as mediator, ACA-Py as mediator client (through connections protocol) merged; Admin API, fixes in progress; need to add support for DID Exchange/OOB
      In Progress:tagged and image posted.
    • Recently Merged:
      • BDD test suite of integration tests that supplement the AATH tests – different startup options, e.g. multi-tenancy, mediator, etc.
    • In Progress:Persistent Queues – Kiva – WIP PR submitted using redis
      
      • Credential Exchange V2 (RFC 0453/0454)
      • Shared Components: Fully functional branch that uses the shared libraries, not indy-sdk
      • Getting to W3C Verifiable Credential support with ZKP and Selective Disclosure with Revocation.
      • DHS SVIP JSON-LD Verifiable Credential exchange in Aries Protocols
      • DIF Presentation Exchangehttps://hackmd.io/@animo/acapy-bbs-2
  • Aries Bifold User Group
  • 2021-03-
  10
  • 24 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting
    
    • Discussed
  group goals, license issues
  • • GitHub projects, and basic functionality
      • Connections, Receiving credentials, presenting proofs, revocation, auth, pin/biometrics, etc.
  Existing
  • • Code
  Walkthrough 
  • • Base
      • Aries Bifold: https://github.com/Indicio-tech/aries-bifold
      • Aries Mobile Agent React Native - https://github.com/Indicio-tech/aries-mobileagent-react-native
      • Aries Framework Javascript: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript
      • rn-indy-sdk: https://github.com/AbsaOSS/rn-indy-sdk
  • Rocket Chat Channel:  https://chat.hyperledger.org/channel/aries-bifold
  • Aries Language Frameworks, Libraries, and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
  • Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)
    • Installable via pip; github actions build and test for Windows, Mac and Linux 
    • indy-vdr - release 0.2.1  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
    • indy-shared-rs - indy-credx release 0.2.3  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-shared-rs
    • aries-askar (storage) - release 0.1.3, will be working on BBS+ and DIDComm v2 support  https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-askarEnabling use of aries-askar to ACA-Py as a startup option.
  • Aries-Framework-Go #aries-go
    • 2021-03-09 23 Framework Go Weekly Planning
    • Fixed permission denied error for tks folder (linux) #2621
    • Sign credential - support BBS+ (API) #2601
    Presentation exchange - BBS+ BDD test #2587
    • Released v0.1.6
    • Implementing UniversalWallet2020 APIs
    • Working on AIP 2.0
  • Aries-SDK-Ruby 
    • Horcrux gem for ActiveStorage (0.0.4), moved to https://github.com/decentralized-identity/activestorage-horcrux
  • Tools (great for interoperability testing)
    • Aries Toolbox – supports ACA-Py 5.3 https://github.com/thclab/aries 
    • Aries Protocol Test Suite - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-protocol-test-suite
      
    • Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-agent-test-harness

• Hyperledger Ursa
  • Homepage:  Hyperledger Ursa 
  • 2021-03-03 17 Meeting Agenda
    
    • HGF Talks:  coordinate?
    • Follow-up on ZK frameworks
    • General adherence to Hyperledger standards (repolinter, etc.).
    • Hardware interface:  updates or interest?
    • Discussion on wrapping/signature interface
    • talk proposal update 
    • Post-quantum plan confirmation 
    • Signature Interfaces
    • Discussion of key resharing.
    • Looking for volunteersOberon protocol

• Trust Over IP Foundation
  • Main site:  https://trustoverip.org/ 
  • Wiki:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation 
  • All Members Meeting
    • 17 Feb Mar 2021:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-0203-17+All+Members+Meeting+Notes
      • Slides:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-02-17+All+Members+Meeting+Notes?preview=/73682/73694/Trust%20over%20IP%20Foundation%20-%20All-Member%20Meeting%2002Trust over IP Foundation - All-Member Meeting 03.17.21.pdf
      • Recording
      • ToIP Charter
      • Good Health Pass Initiative- becoming a full ToIP project effort
      • ToIP Whitepaper v2 underway
  • Steering Committee Meeting
    • 10 23/24 Mar 2021:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2021-03-10+Steering+Committee+Meeting+Pagepages/viewpage.action?pageId=74256
    • Presentation slides:  Steering Committee Meeting Agenda 03.10.21Trust over IP - Steering Committee - Good Health Pass WG - Mar23 2021.pdf
    • Recording:  Link LINK (3/23) and LINK (3/24)
    • Proposal:  Interoperability Working Group for Good Health Pass 
      • Partnership of many health-related organizations
      • Website:  https://www.goodhealthpass.org
      • Whitepaper:  Download the white paper
    • Revised project charter
    • Letter of Agreement – ToIP and Sovrin
    • Collaboration with Kantara
    • Role of ID2020 (intro by Dakota Gruener, Exec Dir of ID2020)
  • ToIP Working Groups:
    • Communications Committee:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Communications+Committee 
    • Governance Stack
    • Technical Stack - Interoperability Taskforce
    • Utility Foundry
    • Ecosystem Foundry
    • Decentralized Semantics
    • Concepts and Terminology 

• DIF DIDComm Working Group
  • Rolling Agenda:  https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm/blob/main/agenda.md
  • 8 22 Mar 2021 meeting

    • PRs

      • 170 - Restructure to solve image display issues.
      • 172 - Fix inconsistencies with to/next attributes in a forward message.
      • 171 - media type discussion
      • 167 - accept property
      • 161 - Attachments WIP
        • Encrypted Attachments https://hackmd.io/jx8W0boDSzmLe2r6LKQU5w

    • Issues

      • 165 - cty of JWM
      • 162 - Rewrapping forwarded messages. - awaiting PR
    • Discussion of attachments and encryption
• DIF Interoperability Group
  • Main:  https://identity.foundation/interop/ 
  • Wiki:  https://www.notion.so/Interoperability-WG-a42995c37e2a4511a10aea96cdbccc38
  • Rolling agenda:  https://github.com/decentralized-identity/interoperability/blob/master/agenda.md
    • 10 24 Mar 2021:  
      • DIF – proposed Travel and Hospitality Special Interest Group
      • Discussion about an interop bounty #DIF-governance meeting 
      • Newest GNAP-core spec
      • Stephen Curran from Aries and Anil John from SVIP spoke about interop profiles and test harnesses
      • Advanced readings:
        • Slides and demo/videos from SVIP event last week
          • VC-HTTP-API specification used in recent SVIP plugathon (more detailed documentation forthcoming)
          • CHAPI test suite recently updates as well
        • Recently-launched public website for tracking cross-agent testing in the Aries test harness
        • Guided tour of iGrant.io's Aries Testing Journey and their open-sourced Aries Interop Playground
        • Interop Testing Survey in support of DIF Member Gataca's Verifier Universal Interface (done through the interop program of ESSIF-LAB)
        Update on GNAP and AuthZ discussions in the Confidential Storage working group
• Sovrin Foundation
  • Technical Governance Board (TGB)
    • 4 18 Mar 2021 Meeting Minutes:  
    • Follow up on call for token plug-in maintainer
      • Steve’s email regarding Sovrin token
      • Marta’s survey of TGB members regarding Sovrin Token
      • Discussion of ledger
    • DizMe announcement and other Indy networks: what does it mean for TGB?
      • https://www.dizme.io/#section-why
      • Have iOS app in the app store
    Indy release update, and implications for the Sovrin release
    • Sovrin Dashboards:  https://sovrin.org/ssi-metrics-dashboards/
    • Sovrin Security Policies (Review)
      • Sovrin Preliminary Security Review (2017)
      • Sovrin Crisis Management Plan (2017)
    • Looking for a CISO
    • Reviewing Sovrin infrastructure
      • Jenkins Nodes - AWS (Migrating to GHA)
      • Mac Stadium (Migrating to GHA)
      • Nexus - AWS (Looking for a more open and decentralized repository for packages).
      • Terraform
      • Salt Stack
      • Public documentation
      • Telegram, Signal
      • Forums (Discourse)
      • Stack Overflow
    • Jenkins / GitHub Actions
    • Repo (repo.sovrin.org)
    • Sovrin Jira
    • Sovrin GitHub (Public and Private repos)
    • Web site (sovrin.org)
    • AWS Infrastructure Managed by:
    • Document management - eliminating multiple sources of data
    • Chat (Slack)
    • Steward applications - SQC
    • Mailing Lists
    • Q&A
    • Calendars
    • Forms: Steward validator info
    • Self Serve Portal
    • Ursa discussion about divorcing Key Event Logs from Service Endpoints
  • Steward Council
    • Rolling Agenda:   4
    • 18 Mar 2021 
      • Presentation slides:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15XrXg6zTF586wjfu8Cv9fZONIBE7KRJq5S6BG0c8gvQ192LP_8WYqATVoDlNsp1aFytbqfXd-zjk6AS1VtP9dSU/edit#slide=id.g4227fd63e5g44af78d6af_0_225Agenda
      • TGB Update - Steve McCown
      • Indy Update - Richard Esplin
        • GitHub Actions pipelines are nearly done.  
        • The Ubuntu 20.04 update is nearly done
        • Evernym is reallocating developers and is seeking volunteers for Sovrin-specific maintenance
      16
      • Sufficient votes to keep token on main net
      • Indy Updates
        • Ubuntu 16.04 nearing EOL
        • Ubuntu 20.04 nearing compltion
          • Stewards can upgrade to a 1.12.4 ver (current) compatible with Ubuntu 20.04 
          • Once upgraded, Indy 1.13 upgrades available
          • Still working on CI/CD
      • Steward Project Showcase - the SSI eIDAS Bridge (Xavier Villa)
      • Two new Slack Channels for Stewards (community and permission)
        • https://join.slack.com/t/sovrinfoundation/shared_invite/zt-mzf6zeqo-5QYtRDWRPni5IdYk7ulUWg
      • Indy SDK:  Absa is helping move Indy SDK to GitHub Actions
        • Discussion of Indy SDK's Future:  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/pull/2329
      • Steward Health Workstream:  
        • Updates on indy-ledger-monitor
        • Steward compliance reviews
      • Technical Workstream:
        • Decentralization of MainNet Governance (ITIL) - In Review
        • Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade work on Node and Plenum is active and progressing.
        • Token Plugin
        • Plenum Node support for freezing and removing ledgers.
        • SIPs for
          • Removing token (https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/sovrin-sip/pull/28/files)
          • Token code (https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/token-plugin/tree/master/sovtoken/sovtoken)
        • Node Selection Algorithm
          
      • Steward community Workstream
        • Reward model: overlaps with token conversation, goal is for Stewards to make a proposal
        • Steward Co-op (project marketplace for stewards)
          
      Steward Project Showcase - Youth Agency Marketplace (Yoma; currently in S. Africa)
      • YOMA is designed to be a market for creating innovation
      • Open source, privacy preserving -- focus on Inclusive Growth
      • Platform build using Trinsic
      • Goal is to make YOMA a clone-able as possible, to facilitate global growth
      YOMA expects to use some form of Token as a means of value transfer in the ecosystem

• W3C Standard
  • Verifiable Credentials Working Group
  • DID Working Group

• Other?

Presentation

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Indy HIPE 0162:  Frozen Ledgers (https://github.com/esplinr/indy-hipe/blob/master/text/0162-frozen-ledgers/README.md)

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Future Topics

• Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org) 

Call Recording

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