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

Date

11 25 Feb 2021 4PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

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• Name (Organization) <email>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com> 
• Sam Curren(Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
• Lohan Spies(DIDx) <lohan.spies@didx.co.za>
• Jim St.Clair (Lumedic) jim.stclair@lumedic.io
• Bruce Conrad
• Charles Lanahan
• Horacio Nunez
• Bill Lam
• Daniel Bachenheimer
• Marc
• Michael Bailey
• Stephen Curran
• Piero Anesin
• Michael Herman

Announcements

• New Aries sub-project:  "Aries Bifold" (see below)
• Aries moved to Active Status!
• Thoughtful Biometrics - March 9,10,12 thoughtfulbiometrics.org
• IIW Workshop #32 (Apr 2021), online, https://internetidentityworkshop.com
• Hyperledger Global Forum 2021 (June 8-10) - https://www.hyperledger.org/event/hyperledger-global-forum-2021 

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• Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG
  • 2021-02-16 Indy Contributors Call
    • HIPEs for helpers to remove plugins: PR 162
      • Freeze ledgers
      • Fees in Indy
    • Demo of freeze ledgers transaction Renata Toktar(10 minutes)
      • GitHub actions led by Kevin Griffin - We need a GHA pipeline for Ubuntu 16.04
        • CI for Indy Node - merged
        • CD for Indy Node - active development - no official PR ready
        • CI/CD for Indy Plenum - draft done - a couple cleanups before merging, but still need to add the publishing part of CD
        • Completion of Sovrin release to produce final artifacts 
    • Ubuntu 20.04 Ryan Marsh, Robin Klemens
      • Working on tests related to Python 3.8 upgrade – most are running, 4-5 to go, parallel looking at specific packages to be updated
    • PR from Stable to Master - some conflicts, but will be done before the next meeting.

• Hyperledger Aries
  • Proposal: GREEN!  Hyperledger Aries Proposal to Exit Incubation Status 
  • Aries Working Group meetings:
    • Meeting Agenda & Notes:  Aries Working Group
    • WG A: 2021-02-24-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
      • Data Sharing Hub - How Agents enables authentic data flows
        • PoC build by Human Colossus showing how the agent can be used to enable authentic data flows, sharing data and consent driven data lakes. We would show that on the example of patient requirement for clinical trial.  
    • WG B:  2021-02-24-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
      • Aries Exit from Incubation
        • Criteria: https://tsc.hyperledger.org/project-incubation-exit.html
        • Being presented to the Technical Steering Committee (TSC)
        • CII Badge questionnaire:  https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/en/projects/4088
      • Aries Interop Protocol V2
        • Updates and realignment of subtargets 
        • https://github.com/swcurran/aries-rfcs/blob/0d5ce50ca8d0b4834f275c3e8e906a6dfd19d821/concepts/0302-aries-interop-profile/README.md
        • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/579 (Main AIP 2.0 PR)
        • Extend credentials to better support W3C VC data structures:  https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/591
        • DIDComm message envelope RFC – provide an overview of his RFC 0587 PR
        • Presentation Exchange RFC – review/revise the RFC 0510-dif-pres-exch as needed
  • 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:
      • Persistent Queues – Kiva – WIP PR submitted using redis
      • Credential Exchange V2 (RFC 0453/0454)
      • Getting to W3C Verifiable Credential support with ZKP and Selective Disclosure with Revocation.
        • DHS SVIP JSON-LD Verifiable Credential exchange in Aries Protocols
        • https://hackmd.io/@animo/acapy-bbs-2
  • Aries Bifold User Group
    • 2021-02-24 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting
      • Kickoff meeting
      • Organized the new group, discussed meeting times, names, etc.
      • Existing Code Walkthrough 
        • Aries Bifold: https://github.com/Indicio-tech/aries-bifold
        • Aries Framework Javascript: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript
        • rn-indy-sdk: https://github.com/AbsaOSS/rn-indy-sdk
  • Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)
    • Enabling use of aries-askar to ACA-Py as a startup option.
  • Aries Language Frameworks and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
  • Aries-Framework-Go #aries-go
    • 2021-02-23 Framework Go Weekly Planning
      • VC wallet client, KMS integration & open & close wallet feature #2551,  #2541
      • Update aries to use the new storage interface (in-review) #2543
  • Aries-SDK-Ruby 
    • Horcrux gem for ActiveStorage (0.0.4), moved to https://github.com/decentralized-identity/activestorage-horcrux
  • Tools
    • 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
      • Aries Framework Go interop in progress – uncovering little stuff!

• Hyperledger Ursa
  • Homepage:  Hyperledger Ursa (EOL) 
  • 2020-02-17 Meeting Agenda
    
    • Introductions/Discussion of any ad hoc items.
    • Follow-up on ZK frameworks (Avradip).
    • General adherence to Hyperledger standards (repolinter, etc.).
    • Hardware interface:  updates or interest?
    • Discussion on wrapping/signature interface

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• DIF DIDComm Working Group
  • Rolling Agenda:  https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm/blob/main/agenda.md
  • 15 Feb 2021 meeting:
    • PRs
      • 157 - JSON-LD Context
      • 160 - Remove old queue reference/TODOs
    • Issues
      • 162 - Rewrapping forwarded messages.
      • 159 - Which keys are used for encryption.

      • Discussion Topics

        • Peer DID Method 2: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/peer-did-method-spec/pull/26
    • Recording: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/H6tr8FGm8P_NU87tZBDZPDiUWBlTD8WSzUQ5tCMS8Mc4MIPS_KcUsORlXEM6U-i9.xoP19_0UgU5vGVBE
• 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
    • 17 Feb 2021 & 24 Feb 2021:  
      • "Revocable BBS+"
      • Recording and Slides
        • Step-by-step guide to registering a DID Method presented on I&D WG 8 Feb - see item #6 and recording
          • Updates from recently-registered DID methods:
            • DID:Orb
            • Special guest: Troy Ronda (SecureKey) will be discussing some of the peculiarities of DID:Orb, including its use of the ActivityPub gossip protocol for propagation of records and its usage of self-certifying identifiers
          • DID:Tezos & DID:Doge (based on dogecoin)
            • Special guests: Wayne Chang and Simon Bihel (Spruce)
      •  Announcements
        • Wallet Security WG refining its charter and looking for a co-chair. Get in touch via DIF Slack
• Sovrin Foundation
  • Technical Governance Board (TGB)
    • 4 Feb 2021 Meeting Minutes:  

      • New Slack channel

      • Sovrin Token code:  update or remove

        • Sovrin SIP
        • Indy HIPE
      • Future of the Sovrin.deb package 
        • sovrin-foundation/sovrin
        • Moving to GitHub Actions
        Plan for removing token code from MainNet (Chris)
        • Sovrin SIP 
        • Indy HIPE
      • Planning steward upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04 (Richard)
        • Status of Indy release with upgraded Ubuntu.
        • Need to ensure stewards upgrade in batches of 5, so as not to interrupt consensus.
        The future of the Sovrin
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        deb package (Richard)
  • Steward Council
    • Rolling Agenda:   
    • 18
    • 4 Feb 2021 

      • Presentation:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rmGtvby6Fb2jSc8o8K-MeTpB7fJp8NBnVOlLiVyoBdA/edit#slide=id.g4227fd63e5_0_225

      • Agenda
        • TGB Update
        Indy Node Updates (GitHub Actions and Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade)
        • - Steve McCown
        • Indy Update - Richard Esplin
          • Next release: Ubuntu 16.04 off of new pipeline (as few changes as possible)
          • Then follow with a release that supports Ubuntu 20.04
          • Wade will manage Stewards updating their nodes, likely in groups of 5 nodes
        • 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
        • New Sovrin Slack Channel :  https://sovrinfoundation.slack.com/archives/C01KLN04274
        • Steward Health Workstream:  
          •  Regular meetings
          • Release v1 of open source monitoring tools, and focus on network security monitoring
          • Need to decide what validator-info information is needed for monitoring compliance
        • Technical Workstream:
          • Finalizing proposal for decentralization of MainNet Governance (ITIL)
            
        • Workstream Updates: Steward community
          • Reward model: overlaps with token conversation, goal is for Stewards to make a proposal
          • Steward Co-op
            
        • Indy SDK
          • No new release is planned - https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/sovrin-sip/pull/28/files
          • Indy CLI depends on libindy
          • Absa is helping migrate libindy to GitHub Actions (looking for help)
          • Shared Libraries:  goal is to overcome libindy limitations regarding scaling

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

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