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This call was recorded: 20210106 Aries WG B Call Recording

Date: 13 Jan 2021 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)

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• Sam Curren (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
• James Ebert (Indicio) <james.ebert@indicio.tech>
• Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
• Charles Lanahan (Trustscience Inc.) <charles.lanahan@trustscience.com>
• Phil Feairheller (Scoir, Inc) <phil@scoir.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

Thoughtful Biometrics - March 9,10,12 thoughtfulbiometrics.org

Related Meetings Review

• Ursa - 
• SSI in IoT WG
• Indy Contributors - Every 2nd Tuesday 8am US/Pacific - CI/CD of Indy Node and Plenum, Ubuntu 18.04 release, indy-sdk release candidate is ready
• Indy DID Method Tuesdays 7am Pacific - Last: Transforming NYM and NYM+EndPointATTRIB to produce a DIDDoc. Next on Jan. 5 will be extending that to richer ATTRIB records.generating DIDDocs from NYM and 
• 2021-01-14 Identity Implementers WG Call (9am MT / 4pm UTC), presentation:  Patrik Stas will be provide an introduction to the Indyscan project and how it helps monitor the health of Indy-based ledgers.  
• DIF DIDComm WG - Monday's at Noon US/Pacific - Sam Curren (Mon) - DID Doc services, etc.

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• Aries Protocol Test Suite
  • Instructions, docker added - Try It!
  • Issue, credential, and proof tests are merged.
  • esatus backchannel
  • OOB protocol testing added (phase 1)
  • Regular friday meetings, contact Keith Smith for details
• Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-agent-test-harness - Aries Interop Testing
  • CI Pipeline running – daily execution based on main branch of source systems, with visualization:  acapy-acapy, dotnet-dotnet, acapy-dotnetnow comparing tests one day to the next – "Fail" means results are different from what's in GitHub
  • In progress:
    • Adding aries-framework-go backchannel
    • Adding DID Exchange tests
• Aries Shared:
  • Working ACA-Py branch!  Recording of information about the repos and performance: 
  • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead)  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr - communication with Indy-Node ledgers
  • indy-shared-rs - https://github.com/bcgovhyperledger/indy-shared-rs - includes indy-credx (Anoncreds support) and related packages – will be requesting permission to contribute to Hyperledgerpackages
  • aries-askar - https://github.com/bcgovhyperledger/aries-askar - secure storage (wallet) initiative - will be requesting permission to contribute to Hyperledger
• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)
  • Release 0.56.6 0 is outpending.
  • Contributions in progressincluded:
    • 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 – KivaKiva – WIP PR submitted using redis
    • More on OOB
    • Credential Exchange V2 (RFC 0453/0454)
  • Starting soon:
    • Getting to W3C Verifiable Credential support with ZKP and Selective Disclosure with Revocation.
      • DHS SVIP JSON-LD Verifiable Credential exchange in Aries ProtocolsMay be doing some bounties related to this
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
  • Release v0.1.5 (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go/releases/tag/v0.1.5)
    • Remote encrypted storage capability that leverage DIF Confidential Stores
    • Support for WebKMS
    • BBS+ Verifiable Credentials with selective disclosure
    • Support for did:web resolution
      
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
  • Horcrux gem for ActiveStorage (0.0.4)
    • moved to https://github.com/decentralized-identity/activestorage-horcrux
    • refactored to change blob key directly (instead of via Tempfile)
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
• Aries-Toolbox
  • Connections Update Complete
  • ACA-Py Toolbox Plugin updated to support ACA-Py 5.3
  • Dependency Updates
  • Converted to a web application by Robert Mitwicki - repo https://github.com/thclab/aries 
• Aries-SDK-Java
• Aries-Framework-JavaScript - Framework JS Meetings
  • Connection, Issue Credential protocol implemented, Working on present proof
  • Added support for react native
    • Working on open source mobile agent (https://github.com/animo/aries-mobile-agent-react-native)
• Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
  • Some work has been done to support the W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model specification
  • Modifications to use BBS+ LD sigs as a first step - early exploration.
• Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin (Aries MAX) - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobileagent-xamarin
  • Ideas:
    • Automatic offer acceptance/managing credentials
    • Machine readable governance
• Ursa
  • Go wrapper proceeding nicely
  • Grand refactor in the next few months. Should not affect the external APIs. Will help future additions.

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