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Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom here https://zoom.us/j/244779296

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Announcements

• Hyperledger edX course launched- Introduction to Hyperledger Sovereign Identity Blockchain Solutions: Indy, Aries & Ursa
• Other Announcements?

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
    • Detailed discussion on the behavior of  the Transaction Author Agreement.
    • Discussion of how to host an Indy validator in a Kubernetes environment.
    • Discussion about Aries-KMS
    • Notes and recordingDiscussed the future of Indy SDK wrappers.
  • Indy Node
    • December, 1.12.1: Improvements to the TAA behavior
    • January: , and the schema object for rich schemas.
      • Rich Schema schema object support https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/pull/1513
  • Indy SDK
    • December, 1.14.01: Improvements to the TAA behavior, and LibVCX support for Aries Interop V1, and bug fixes
  • Indy Catalyst
    • https://github.com/bcgov/indy-catalyst
    • Happy with performance now.
    • Need to improve documentation before migrating into Hyperledger GitHub orgWill 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: Preference for language frameworks over "SDK" wrappers. Discussion of different interpretations of Aries RFC 0094Update 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.
      3
      • 4.
      5
      • 0 released. Release Notes
      • Launch of ACA-Py User Group (ACA-Pug) and #aries-cloudagent-python
    • Static Agent Python - Working on release with return routing, other improvements 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.
    • Architectural improvements to support mediators, then can contribute LibVCX tests
  • Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)
  • Aries Language Frameworks and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
• Hyperledger Ursa
  • Ursa  Ursa 0.3.0 1 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
  • Ursa 0.3.0 released
    • Updated BLS signature (multi-signatures, small-BLS)
    • Compilation optimization for specific hardware
    • Rest of predicates for Anoncreds 2.0 and delegatable credentials
  • 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.
    Agent Managed storage considerations -
    • .Ursa 0.3.1 release in January.
• Sovrin
  • Network updates and extensions
  • Sovrin Governance Frameworks and Trust Architecture
    • Sovrin Governance Framework v2 is approved.
    • Official Transaction Author Agreement (TAA): https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/sovrin/blob/master/TAA/TAA.md
    • New TAA is expected to be enforced deployed on the Sovrin Staging Builder Net in January, and enforced on the Sovrin Main Staging Net in February.
      • Indy is incorporating some changes to make it easier to adopt a TAA.

    Sovrin Foundation Webmeeting Info:

    • 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

  • 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
    • 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

Open Discussion

• Demo of Git commit signing with a DID, Ibrahim El RhezzalSelecting future presenters.

Next Meeting Topics

• Demo of aries-framework-dotnet Tomislav Markovski

Future Topics

• Roadmap coordination between Indy, Aries and Ursa
• Progress of aries-framework-ruby John Callahan
• The ACA-Py REST API

Action items

Call Recording

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