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Connection Info

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

Reminder to the host: we plan to record this call.

Date

07 May 2020 4PM UTC, 9AM PDT, 10AM MDT, 12AM EDT

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com)

Announcements

• New:  SSI Covid-19 group (http://fightthevirus.world) 
• Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org) 
  • Session B: 6-7:30pm PT, Thursday, May 7 (11am-12:30pm Sydney, Friday, May 8). Register here.
• Sovrin Steward Council
  • Charter created and approved by the Sovrin Board of Trustees
  • Activity and membership information will be sent out soon 
• Maintainers: make sure your repos follow the new common structure
  • Common Repo structure

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

• Main Identity WG
  • Meeting notes
  • Covid-19 discussion
  • Trust Over IP presentation and discussion in the next meeting
  • Video recording posted from March 18: Known Traveler Digital Identity
  • Vipin presentation on various Identity app approaches from other countries
• Hyperledger Indy
  • Code Management Updates
    • Migrate Jira to Github repos
    • Moving from Jenkins to GitHub actions
    • Revocation 2.0 
  • Contributors Meeting
    • Specific case of troubleshooting an Indy network
    • Notes and recording
    • Evernym will step away to work on another use case
  • Indy Node
    • March: delayed until April to use the new Ursa.
    • April: New Ursa, including better hashing. Rich schemas objects. Bug fixes. Also a statically linked ZMQ tool.
    • Slowing release cadence to every-other month-ish.
  • Indy SDK
    
    • March 25:  1.15.0
      • Bug fixes and new features in LibVCX (Connection Redirect and Reject Proof)
      • https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/releases/tag/v1.15.0
    • Smaller releases because of focus on Aries Shared libraries.
  • Indy Catalyst
    • https://github.com/bcgov/indy-catalyst
    • Moving to Aries as the 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:
    • Meeting Agenda & Notes:  Aries Working Group
    • WG A: 2020-05-06-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
    • WG B: meeting notes 2020-02-12-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon) 
  • Aries Protocol Test Suite - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-protocol-test-suite
    
  • Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-agent-test-harness
  • Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
    • Aries Cloud Agent Python - ACA-Py User Group (ACA-Pug) Bi-weekly meetings
      • Upcoming:  Release 0.5.0
      • Revocation based on anoncreds 1.0 has been merged into master and will be in the next release.
    • Static Agent Python - Release 0.7.1 - Patch to accept base64url encoded values with or without padding
    • Toolbox - Various improvements including Transaction Author Agreement support for Indy ledgers requiring it
  • Tools
    • Aries Protocol Test Suite
    • Aries Toolbox
  • Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)
    • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead)  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
      • Remaining work: Design doc, FFI, testing, CI / CD
      • As an Aries interface becomes standardized, will add that API layer
      • Integrating into LibIndy in a separate branch, goal is to release in April/May
    • indy-credx / aries-credx
      • https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
      • https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx
      • Ran a branch of ACAPy with Aries Credx instead of LibIndy
    • Aries-Shared-Util
      • Pack / Unpack
      • Not started yet
    • Aries-KMS
      • Mike's presentation in Aries WG A
      • Mike and Cam's aries-core-rs → aries-kms-mayaguez
        https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-kms-rs
      • Indy wallet crate might move to start another aries-kms implementation → aries-kms-vostok
  • Aries Language Frameworks and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
• Hyperledger Ursa
  • 0.4.0 scheduled for late March
    • Hash to curve
    • Updates to AMCL wrapper
  • Presentations
  • No call - will push predicates, never put into Indy and made available to Aries. Will add full set or more predicates than > = . Working on Aries wallet and using the Ursa capabilities for that. 
• Sovrin
  • Status of the network is good, even though the Sovrin Foundation is going through a transition.
  • First half of meeting update on Sovrin Foundation and reports from committees. Second half on the Covid Governance workstream committees. 
  • Sovrin transition - Riley on the transition team - See Riley draft presentation slides below >>
• DIF DIDComm Working Group
  • WG Rolling Agenda 
  • Outlining changes that are needed to Aries RFCs.
• W3C Standard
  • Verifiable Credentials Working Group
  • DID Working Group
    • DID Working Group Face-to-Face this week. Expect freeze to standard in May.
• Other?

Open Discussion

• Internet Identity Workshop, April 28-30, (https://internetidentityworkshop.com)
  • https://iiw.idcommons.net/Main_Page
  • Notes from each session:  https://iiw.idcommons.net/IIW_30_Session_Notes

Next Meeting Topics

Future Topics

• Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org) 

Action items

Work-in-Progress - Welcome all contributors, ideas, options. 

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Charter may be under evaluation - or coincide with general interruptions - may be on hold.

Call Recording