2024-02-22: Identity Special Interest Group

Summary

Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/93003523877?pwd=Q3VvMnJ1N0lSUEZSc283SmFGRk9SQT09

Date

22 Feb 2024 4PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

Call Recording: 

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

• Char Howland (Indicio PBC) <char@indicio.tech>

Announcements 

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

• Hyperledger Indy Contributors WG
  • 2024-02-13 Indy Contributors Call
    • Indy Annual Report
      
      • Annual Report presented and discussed at the TOC Meeting on Thurs, Feb 15
    • Release 1.13.2 completed
    • Indy Besu update and discussion

• Hyperledger Aries 
  • Aries Working Group meetings:
    • 2024-02-21 Aries Working Group Call
      • AIP 2.0 Updates
      • Credential protocol Reversions
      • Annual Report
  • Aries Bifold User Group (React Native & Typscript)
    • 2024-02-13 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting
      • Bifold to OWF
      • Dependency Injection
  • Aries Cloud Agent Python User Group
    
    • 2024-02-20 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting
      • Status ACA-Py 0.12.0rc1
      • Status AnonCreds RS
      • Status did:peer and AFJ Interop – where we are
      • Status Load Generator Testing at BC Gov
      • Status AnonCreds in W3C Format
      • Upgrading an ACA-Py deployment to AnonCreds RS
      • Status: ACA-Py 1.00 Checklist
      • Brainstorming: ACA-Py based Hyperledger Mentorships, and call for Mentors
  • Aries Cloud Agent Python Maintainers Meeting
    • Focused on current PRs, planned PRs, and Release Management. ACA-Pug will continue to focus on initiatives in the community, with demos and presentations from members from User Group members.
    • Calendar info
    • 2024-01-30 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Maintainers Meeting
      • Release 1.0.0
      • Adding support in ACA-Py for AnonCreds in W3C Format
  • Aries Language Frameworks, Libraries, and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
    • Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)
      • Aries Shared Components
        • now installable via pip; github actions build and test for Windows, Mac and Linux 
        • indy-vdr - release 0.3.4  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
        • indy-shared-rs - indy-credx release 0.3.1  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-shared-rs
        • aries-askar (storage) - release 0.2.2  https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-askar
    • Aries-Framework JavaScript
      • 2023-11-09 Aries Framework JS Meeting notes
        • Absa wallet: how AFJ reduced thousands lines of code
        • Moving to OWF - proposal 
          • https://hackmd.io/@animo/H1qPP85Qp
  • Tools (great for interoperability testing)
    • Aries Toolbox (v 0.1.0; active) https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-acapy-plugin-toolbox
    • Aries Protocol Test Suite (v 0.1.0; last update Jul 2019) - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-protocol-test-suite
      
    • Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-agent-test-harness
      • Test Run Status: https://aries-interop.info
      • New!  Mobile Wallet Test Agent for any mobile wallet

• Hyperledger AnonCreds
  • 2024-02-12 AnonCreds Working Group Meeting
    • AnonCreds in W3C Format - Status Update / Issues
    • AnonCreds 0.2.0 Release – contents
    • AnonCreds Release 1.0.0
    • AnonCreds v2 ZKP Capabilities – verifiable encryption, equality proofs and domain proofs

• Trust Over IP Foundation
  • Main site:  https://trustoverip.org/ 
  • Wiki:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation 
  • All Members Meeting
    • 21 February 2024: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2024-02-21+All+Members+Meeting+Notes
      • Presentation: Content Authenticity Initiative 
  • ToIP Working Groups:
    • Communications Committee:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Communications+Committee
      
      • All blogs: https://trustoverip.org/about/news/ 
      • 3 November 2023 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2023-11-03+Communications+Committee+Meeting+Notes
        • BLOGs being worked on:
          AI Blog by Wenjing
          Trust Registries TF Update BLOG (confirmed)
          ACDC - specs - 
          Post-IIW (Mathieu didn’t have time)
          DID WebS TF (Has it launched yet?) - this is drafted. Contact Lance Byrd for an update. 
          AI and Metaverse Series - Ziada and Anita
          ID Pro BLOG Repurpose
    • Governance Stack
      
      • 8 February 2024 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2024-02-08+GSWG+Meeting+Notes
        • Update on Issuer Requirements Guide
        • Update on ToIP Glossary, Governance Architecture Spec., Governance Metamodel Spec., Technology Architecture Spec. and 3rd gen. ToIP stack diagram
      • Task Force:
        • Governance Architecture TF
    • Technology Stack Working Group
      • 20 February 2024: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2024-02-20+TSWG+Meeting+Notes
        

        • Technology Architecture TF — Wenjing Chu  Drummond Reed

          • • Work is going on very actively on the 3rd generation ToIP stack diagram
            • Our goal is to move the spec to Spec-Up, integrate the Canonical Use Cases text, add the 3rd generation ToIP stack diagram, and integrate the ToIP Glossary refs/defs before IIW (April 16-18).

          Trust Registry TF — Andor Kesselman Antti Kettunen  Darrell O'Donnell

          • On track for Implementer Draft in March.
          • Requirements and OAS/Swagger coming along

          Trust Spanning Protocol TF — Drummond Reed Wenjing Chu Samuel Smith 

          • On track to publish the first Implementers Draft in early March.

          ACDC TF — Samuel Smith Phil Feairheller 

          • The road to public review continues, latest update is KERI has a list of before-public-review  issues and we are identifying a bonus TF call this week to do the same for ACDC/CESR.

          AI & Metaverse (AIM) Technology TF — Wenjing Chu 

          • Working on a proposal for an Authentic Generative AI (AGAI).

          Credential Exchange Protocols TF — Mathieu Glaude 

          • Restart meeting last week. Key focus was looking at both the human and machine aspect of the protocols.
          • Most of the focus last year was on the issuance protocols.
          • Now the focus is moving to the presentation protocols.

          did:webs Task Force — Lance Byrd Phil Feairheller Markus Sabadello 

          • • Working through comments from the public review and a reference implementation

          
          

    • Ecosystem Foundry
      • 15 February 2024 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+2024-02-15+Meeting+Notes
        • Review and discuss Ecosystem Components, Use Cases
        • Discuss fit with Business Model Canvas and accompanying instruction book
    • Concepts and Terminology
      • 12 February 2024 Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2024-02-12+CTWG+Meeting+Notes
        • Updates on TEv2 and KERISSE engine
        • Report on Spec-Up Coding Project

• Decentralized Identity Foundation
  • DIF DIDComm Spec Working Group
    • Rolling Agenda:  https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm/blob/main/agenda.md
    • Current Agenda:  https://hackmd.io/pUsOUZa8QHKJTSgf5O6HfQ?both
    • RFC Repository:  https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-messaging
    • Meeting every 1st Monday of the month
    • No September meeting
    • 5 February 2024: https://hackmd.io/pUsOUZa8QHKJTSgf5O6HfQ?view
      • DIDComm branding reprise
      • DIDComm at the IETF

• • DIF DIDComm Users Group
    • Update: moving from un-sync to sync meetings
      • At the same timeslot at the DIDComm WG meetings, every 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Mondays of the month
      • Meetings: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-usergroup/tree/main/meetings
    • Meeting notes on discord channel: https://discord.com/channels/900385725462229022/911224279885033533
    • 18 September Meeting

      • Nick Reynolds presented a proof-of-concept DIDComm protocol for communicating with AI agents

      • Jesús Diaz (a researcher at IOG) presented some research / formal analysis of DIDComm and offered some possible improvements

      • James Ebert presented an Invitation Service that makes improvements to existing OOB protocol (when you scan a QR code on device to begin DIDComm convo)

    • 11 September Meeting

      • Roles in a protocol: using them to indicate support for a subset of the protocol

      • PR for DIDComm Book Organization: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-book/pull/8
  • 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
    • Meeting recordings
    • 27 June Meeting
      
      • Recording
      • Presentation by Meyer Mechanic (Founder at Vaultie): User Adoption and Interoperability

• • IoT Special Interest Group
    • DIF Steering Committee approved the creation of an IoT Special Interest Group
    • Participating in the IoT SIG does not require being a member of DIF so anyone who is interested is welcome
    • Sign up for the mailing list: https://lists.identity.foundation/g/IoT-SIG
    • 25 October Meeting
      • Meeting recording
      • Discussion of IoT SIG Potential Work Items
    • Meeting recordings
    • Discord channel

• W3C Standard
  
  • DID Working Group
    • Charter:  https://www.w3.org/2020/12/did-wg-charter.html 
    • Meetings:  https://www.w3.org/2019/did-wg/
      • W3C Members are invited to join this Working Group. Individuals who wish to participate as Invited Experts (i.e., they do not represent a W3C Member) should refer to the policy for approval of Invited Experts. The group also welcomes non-Members to contribute technical submissions for consideration upon their agreement to the terms of the W3C Patent Policy.
    • https://www.w3.org/2019/did-wg/Meetings/Minutes/2022-02-11-did
      • DID Method:  "did:id"
      • DID Method:  "did:keri"
  • Community Credentials Group
    • November 14: CCG Traceability Call
    • November 13: Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force Call
• Other?

Presentation

• 2024: The State of the Ledger from Daniela Barbosa (Executive Director of the Hyperledger Foundation)