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• Name (Employer) <email>
• Troy Ronda (SecureKey) <troy.ronda@securekey.com>
• John Callahan (Veridium) <jcallahan@veridiumid.com>
• George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>
• Sven Hammann (ETH Zurich) <sven.hammann.90@gmail.com>
• Filip Burlacu (SecureKey) <filip.burlacu@securekey.com>
• Sam Curren (Sovrin Foundation) <sam@sovrin.org>
• Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>
• Sudesh Shetty (SecureKey) <sudesh.shetty@securekey.com>
• Rolson Quadras (SecureKey) <rolson.quadras@securekey.com>
• Marvin Berstecher  (esatus AG) <m.berstecher@esatus.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• Hyperledger Diversity, Civility, and Inclusivity Survey

Related Calls

• Previous Aries Working Group calls
• DIF DIDComm WG Call: Rolling Agenda.
• Identity Implementors Working Group call
  • Main place to get project updates, release status, and announcements.

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• Aries Protocol Test Suite
  • Issue, credential, and proof tests are merged.
• Aries Shared:
  • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead) https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-ledger-client
    • Basically usable
    • Remaining work: Design doc, FFI, and testing
    • Will migrate repo to Hyperledger
    • As an Aries interface becomes standardized, will add that API layer
  • indy-aries-anoncreds / indy-creds → indy-credx
    • https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
  • Aries-Shared-Util
    • Pack / Unpack
    • Not started yet
  • Aries-KMS
  • Verifiable Data Registry Interface (VDRI) library
  • Other Core Libraries (pack / unpack)
  • Aries Anoncreds rust implementation started - Mike Lodder
    • Will support multiple approaches
    • Mike and Cam's aries-core-rs → aries-kms-(placeholder)
      https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-core-rs
    • aries-kms-taiga: evolution of the Indy wallet crate as a starting point
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• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
  • Added DID/Verkey sign_and_submit to aries_sdk_ruby and published new gem (0.0.78)
  • Created aries-rails-docker experiment that support Rails 4 with Indy 1.8.1 on Heroku & Dokku
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
• Aries-StaticAgent-Python
• Aries-Toolbox
  • Added basic message admin
  • Working on a getting started video
• Aries-SDK-Java
• Aries-Framework-JavaScript / Aries-SDK-JavaScript
  • Started regular meetings: Framework JS Meetings
• Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
• Ursa
  • 0.3.1 release in January
  • 0.3.2 released in February, includes key exchange methods (can replace libsodium)

RFC Progress

Other Business

• Q&A about the Aries Framework Go (Troy Ronda and team)
  
  • Introduction: https://talks.troyronda.com/2020/01/aries-framework-go/
    • (Use Chrome, Firefox, or Safari Technology Preview 100+ to view the slides).
  • Evernym's questions for discussion: https://hackmd.io/3lDKx8nZT8OV6pXQiwT4Tw?view
  • Supported RFCs: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go/issues/920
  • Generic API into the framework that can be used for any binding (started with JS worker and WASM)
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go/commit/461943a54d9324302a3bd85d7e9842008b6b669c
  • Framework is modular, so the DID component can be used separately from credentials.
  • Framework Go Meetings
    • Public standup 10AM Eastern
    • Weekly planning Tuesday 10:30 Eastern
  • #aries-go
• DID exchange versus DID connections
  • Considered part of DIF DIDComm.
  • But need to solve practical problems now, so not waiting for DIDComm group.

Future Topics

• Next Meeting (February 26)
  • Aries KMS design
    • Mike Lodder 's work on https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-kms-rs 
    • Evernym's work
    • Define approved algorithms
    • Define plugin interface (aries-kms)
    • 3rd party libraries we could leverage:
      • Google Tink as an encryption library
  • CI / CD Aries shared libraries
• Other:
  
  • Formal verification (Sven Hammann)
  • Where should we document interoperability results (AIP 1.0)? A page in this wiki space?
  • Hubs vs Agents
    • https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2019/07/23/rhythm-and-melody-how-hubs-and-agents-rock-together
  • Status and future of wallet query language
  • IOT best practices (Robert Mitwicki, Adam Burdett , Lohan Spies )
  • DID Resolution W3C and Sam's concerns: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/130
  • Architecture of Aries Verifiable Credentials Proof Formats (Mike Lodder)

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