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The call takes place over Zoom:  https://zoom.us/my/hyperledger.community.3?pwd=UE90WHhEaHRqOGEyMkV3cldKa2d2dz09

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• Name (Organization) <email>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com> 
• Nathan George
• Alex Jonsson
• Rounak Ghosh
• Jim StClair
• Sam Curren
• Himangshu Pan

Announcements

• IIW Workshop #31 (Oct 2020) Proceedings:  https://internetidentityworkshop.com/past-workshops/
• IIW Workshop #32 (Apr 2021), online, reg opens Dec 14th:  https://internetidentityworkshop.com

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• Hyperledger Aries
  • Aries Working Group meetings:
    • Meeting Agenda & Notes:  Aries Working Group
    • WG A: 2020-12-16-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
      • Digital Immunization Passport (DIP) - Demo - how ACA-PY, Aries Toolbox, Personal Data Store and OCA can provide data harmonization and authentic data exchange. Christoph Fabianek (OwnYourData), Robert Mitwicki(HCF)
    • WG B:  2020-12-16-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
      • Issues
      • Testing Demo - BCGov - Aries Agent Test Harness daily testing run reports: acapy-acapy, dotnet-dotnet, acapy-dotnet
      • Aries Interop Profile (AIP) Next - Stephen Curran
        • AIP RFC 302:  https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/concepts/0302-aries-interop-profile
  • Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
    • Release 0.5.6 is out.
    • Contributions in progress:
      • Multi-Tenant Agent - from Lukas Müller, SICPA and collaborators
      • Java Clients
      • Mediator configuration
    • Toolbox - Various improvements including Transaction Author Agreement support for Indy ledgers requiring it
      • New web app repo https://github.com/thclab/aries 
  • Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)
    • aries-credx - https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
    • areis-askar - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/aries-askar
  • Aries Language Frameworks and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
    • Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)
      • Release 0.5.6 is out.
      • Contributions in progress:
        • DID Exchange support added yesterday to main branch – testing
        • Adjustments for supporting aries-askar – mostly internal
        • Persistent Queues – Kiva
        • Multi-Tenant Support -  SICPA and collaborators (Animo, Anon Solutions)
        • Mediator Support – Indicio
        • Getting to W3C Verifiable Credential support with ZKP and Selective Disclosure with Revocation.
          • DHS SVIP JSON-LD Verifiable Credential exchange in Aries Protocols
          • May be doing some bounties related to this
        • Thinking about adding aries-vdr concept – pluggable, multi-ledger resolution
    • Aries-Framework-Go #aries-go
      • 2020-11-03 Meeting Notes
      • BBS+ Verifiable Credentials implemented using pure Go. Example.
        • Next tasks: interop testing against Mattr implementation and selective disclosure capabilities.
      • Working on adding remote encrypted storage capability - with a default implementation of DIF Secure Data Storage - Encrypted Data Vaults.
        • Encrypted Data Vault (EDV) from DIF SDS spec format has been implemented. Works as an encryption wrapper to underlying storage providers.
        • DIF EDV/SDS REST client is in progress. Docker image will support configuring EDV endpoint as wallet storage.
      • Remote KMS support is in progress. Docker image will support configuring remote KMS. 
      • Created repo to handle pluggable go framework components such as Indy VDR: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go-ext
        • MySQL and CouchDB components moved to ext repo.
        • New contributions of MongoDB and RabbitMQ support to the ext repo.
    • Aries-SDK-Ruby 
      • Horcrux gem for ActiveStorage (0.0.4), moved to https://github.com/decentralized-identity/activestorage-horcrux
  • Tools
    • Aries Toolbox – converted to a web application by Robert Mitwicki - repo https://github.com/thclab/aries 
    • Aries Protocol Test Suite - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-protocol-test-suite
      
    • Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-agent-test-harness

• Hyperledger Ursa
  • Homepage:  Hyperledger Ursa (EOL) 
  • 2020-1112-11 8 Meeting Agenda
    
    • Approved the secret sharing PR.
    • Accumulator discussion.
    • Outstanding issues:  
      1. k256 crate
      (secp256k1). Should we use it?
      1. Everyone seems in favor.
      2. How to formalize–add to the refactoring documentation.
    • Ursa refactor:
      1. Focus on secret sharing
      2. We may need more buckets
    • 1. . 
         1. Already migrated for the signature refactor.
         2. Can Milagro be removed?  (Only left for Indy.)
      2. Ursa refactor.
      3. Revocation issues (led by Brent)
      :
      2. We should probably wait until refactor is done.
      3. IETF Standardizing BLS Signatures
      4. We need to bring our signature into compliance when this happens
      5. We should also switch from Milagro to PairingPlus
    • Discussion on PR #143
      1. Misuse resistance vs efficiency
      (is there still interest?)

• Trust Over IP Foundation
  • Main site:  https://trustoverip.org/ 
  • Wiki:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation 
  • Webinar:  Trust over IP and Government (15 Dec 2020)
    • Verifiable Credentials, passports, Covid Credential Initiative (CCI) 
    • https://zoom.us/rec/share/j4vfX47K1RPgZlmGHpfrC6YEh6RXGs86KiEdTmq6z4VUOFM7Aa97u-6Yzz5rZ6dx.jg5BtbuA5HnxYOVL
  • 18 Nov 2020 All Members Meeting:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/All+Members+Meeting+Page
    • Meting notes https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-11-18+All+Members+Meeting+Notes 
    • Slides:  Slides
  • 11 Nov 2020 - Steering Committee Meeting:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-11-11+Steering+Committee+Meeting+Page 
    • Human Experience WG Presentation  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-11-11+Steering+Committee+Meeting+Page?preview=/71624/71631/Exhibit%20B%20-%20The%20Human%20Experience%20(working%20group).pptx
  • ToIP Working Groups:
    • Communications Committee
      • https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Communications+Committee 
      • 13 Nov 11 Dec 2020 meeting https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-12-11-13+Communications+Committee+Meeting+Notes
      • ToIP webinar series being planned
    • Governance Stack
      • Governance models & standards https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/concepts/0289-toip-stack 
      • Main WG Page:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/GSWG+Meeting+Page 
      • 12 Nov 16 Dec 2020 meeting (NA/EU) Presentation link: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-12-16+GSWG+APAC+Meeting+Notes
      • Documents
        • Principles of SSI V1.0
        • Decentralized SSI Governance
        • GS Design Principles v1pages/viewpage.action?pageId=71236
    • Technical Stack 
      • 16 Nov 14 Dec 2020 WG: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-1112-1614+Weekly+Meeting
        • Migration to Kanban tooling.
          • Trello Account Setup; Board creation WIP.
          • Goal is to improve WG reporting (scrum activity) and allow Task Forces to organize and manage activity.
          • Upon completion of KanBan boards: Convert TSWG Bi-monthy Meeting into a Monthly Scrum of Scrums (SOS); Allowing TFs to meet more frequently and to be more focused on actual deliverables than status updates.
        • Triage GitHub Issues
        • ToIP Technology Stack Design Principles (TSWG)
          1. Focus on overall design principles – separate deliverable from the specific Privacy by Design and Laws of Identity TFs
          2. Focus is on TIP independent and stack layer independent. So this is a separate full-stack deliverable. For example: Decentralization
        • ToIP Governance Stack Design Principles (GSWG)
        • ToIP Governance Architecture TSS (GSWG) <== underway
        • ToIP Technical Architecture TSS (TSWG): See RFC 289 Conversion TF
        • Design and Architecture of the ToIP Stack (white paper) (joint deliverable of GSWG and TSWG): Update Foundation Whitepaper
    • Utility Foundry
      • 10 Nov 2020 WG:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-11-10+Meeting+Page
      • Projects:
        • Bedrock

          • Call for interested companies that may be interested in joining. Send email request to Dan Gisolfi stating company name and contact email address.

          • Soft Launch Scheduled for 18 Nov 2020.

        • IDunion 
          • Competition phase in final stages, proposal has been handed in to German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs for execution phase. Final project report is work in progress. Activities on IDunion legal entity continue.
        • Sovrin
        • Indicio
          • Indicio TestNet had successful "first upgrade" last week. DemoNet scheduled to be "live" by the end of next week, and MainNet scheduled to be "live" by the end of the year. Official announcements are forthcoming. 
    • Ecosystem Foundry
      • WG:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+Meeting+Page
      • 19 Nov 2020 WG:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+2020-11-19+Meeting+Notes
        • Github Project Boards reference links
          https://github.com/features/project-management/
          https://github.com/orgs/trustoverip/projects/2
          https://github.com/trustoverip/ecosystem-foundry-wg/projects
    • Decentralized Semantics
      • Main:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Semantics+Working+Group  
      • 1 Dec 2020 Meeting:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-12-01+Weekly+Meeting
        • Recording
        • Slides https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-12-01+Weekly+Meeting?preview=/71766/71770/ToIP%20Semantics%20WG%20Weekly%20Meeting.pdf 
    • Concepts and Terminology 
      • WG:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=65700
      • Develop a glossary of shared concepts and terminology  

• DIF DIDComm Working Group
  • Rolling Agenda:  https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm/blob/main/agenda.md
  • 14 Dec 2020 meeting:
    • Milestones
      • First Complete Draft - reads correctly from beginning to end Nov 30th
    • DIDComm.org Progress
      • Repo:  https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm.org

    • DID Use Cases

      • Original: https://github.com/w3c/did-use-cases/pull/100
      • Nader: https://github.com/w3c/did-use-cases/pull/122
        • Preview: https://pr-preview.s3.amazonaws.com/creatornader/did-use-cases/pull/122.html#messaging
      • Phil Archer: https://github.com/w3c/did-use-cases/pull/126
        • Preview: https://pr-preview.s3.amazonaws.com/creatornader/did-use-cases/pull/126.html#messaging

    • PR/Issues:

    • 127 - structured headers
      • 128 - to header semantics
    • 129 - post quantum
    • 126 - DIDDocs for Peer DIDs

    DIDComm Bootstrapping and Discovery Technique

    • Support DID Methods without endpoint support

      • Strategy: Rotate to something that does
      • Strategy: Allow indication of endpoint information in a message.
        • Endpoint, routing
        • reply_url
        • reply_to does not indicate routing. Perhaps reply_routing = []?
        • Requires message from DID owner first.
      • Scope: message, conversation, everything?
        • Not all messages will be replies
      • use cases:
        • existing relationship use local connetion like bluetooth. Does the DID Doc need to be updated? Reply info could be used to manage using a temporary local connection.
        • DID method that doesn't support an endpoint, or won't for legal reasons.
        • modify mediation path dynamically
      • Carrying Cost
        • maintaining temporary state
        • increased comlexity of sending message
        • different replication of service block in reply headers
      Social Profile Association Credential
• 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
  • 16 Dec 2020:  VC deep dive series: A VC-focused Tour of the Authenticator architecture with Tim Capalli (MSFT)
• Sovrin Foundation
  • Technical Governance Board (TGB)
    • 12 Nov 10 Dec 2020 Meeting Minutes:  
    • No call on 26 Nov 202024 Dec 2020
    • Governance Framework discussion (Sankarshan), looking for inputs on:
      • Public Write Access
      • Network of Networks support/interoperability (including the Indy DID method)
      • KERI support
      • Economics and sustainability plan
    • Increasing Contributions by public shoutouts (Steve McCown)
      • "Sovrin Certified Developer" (Danial Hardman)
      • Existing Hyperledger process (Marta)
    • Requesting volunteers for Indy CI/CD (contact Stephen Curran)
      • Need help with existing Jenkins service and moving to Github Actions
    • Discussion on the future of Indy-SDK (Richard Esplin; Evernym)
  • Steward Council
    • 10 Dec
    Steward Council
    • 12 Nov 2020 Meeting Minutes:  
    • Reviewed Workstreams (1) Health monitoring, 2) technical, 3) community engagement)
    • No call on 26 Nov 202024 Dec 2020
    • Next meeting 21 Jan 2021 will be an All Steward Call
    • Update from TGB (Steve McCown; see above)
    • Indy Updates (Richard Esplin; Evernym)
      • Indy Node release
        • Jenkins needs updating; Github Actions to be used for future releases
      • CI / CD
      • Ubuntu upgrade - most work done on Ubuntu 18.04 support. Ubuntu 20 will require more work and need volunteers/people to do this work.
      • Indy-Crypto to Ursa
      • Impact of Sovrin token - request to remove token code
      • Token code deployed but not maintained.
      • Want to remove the token plugin from mainnet. No transaction against the token ledger so easier to remove compared to staging/builder nets.
      • Indy SDK release
        • Stop support or help with releases of IndySDK
        • Moved to new repos
        • Aries-Askar - wallets
        • Aries-Credx - Credential Exchange
        • Aries-Vdr - Ledger comms
        • Evernym
          • No plans to continue maintaining IndySDK
          • Focussing on replacement libraries
      • Overview and achievements of the last 6 months
        • MVP metrics dashboard 
        • Uses indy-node-monitor via validator-info
        • Indy-ledger-monitor
        • Query DIDs, credential definitions, schemas
        • Query the ledger like indy-scan without a 3rd party
        • What metrics can be public?
        • Most information can be public, but some information could be used to attack specific nodes.
        • Key focus is to increase knowledge of and contribution to Indy
        • Ongoing discussions about decentralization of MainNet governance
        • Steward council meetings inform Stewards about Indy
        • Stewards need ability to raise concerns about Indy before code is developer and / or deployed
        • We need a process for stewards to be part of the release approval
        • Need more ideas for engaging with steward community.
      • Sovrin Governance Framework Discussion
        • Utility Governance Framework
        • Ecosystem Governance Framework
      • Version 3 of the SGF will be two efforts:
      • Would like Steward input into both frameworks.
      • Open Steward discussion - Community
        • Sovrin channel in RocketChat, Sovrin Forums, and mailing list aren't maintained
    • Network is healthy with near 100% uptime

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

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