2020-12-17 Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

Connection Info

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

Date

17 Dec 2020 4PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

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

Announcements

• IIW Workshop #31 (Oct 2020) Proceedings:  https://internetidentityworkshop.com/past-workshops/
• IIW Workshop #32 (Apr 2021), online, reg opens Dec 14th:  https://internetidentityworkshop.com

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

• Main Identity WG
  • Meeting Notes:  2020-11-25 (Dec meeting cancelled)
    • "The State of SSI" – Drummond Reed
    • Slides State of SSI.pdf
    • Recording available

• Hyperledger Indy
  • Contributors Meeting
    • 2020-12-08 Indy Contributors Call
      • Indy Node / Plenum
        • Next release in progress, will support Ubuntu 18.04 (Jira Issue)
        • Need assistance with Jenkins CI/CD pipeline and moving to Github Actions
      • Indy SDK
        • Next release in progress, led by Ian Costanzo
        • iOS / MacOS: 64-bit only
        • Rust issue – need to consider when to switch to newer version
      • Indy Monitoring - https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node-monitor
      • Evernym's next items (won't be adopting shared libraries, will probably maintain LibIndy as a fork outside of Hyperledger)
        
        1. Removing the Sovrin Token from Sovrin MainNet
      • Progress: Indy DID Method (did:indy) Specification 
        
        • Indy DID:Method Spec-ing Meeting - weekly, Tuesday 7AM Pacific - Indy DID Method Specification
    • Indy/Aries Shared Libraries
      • Current status: creating a branch of ACA-Py with these components and without indy-sdk 
      • Working ACA-Py branch doing credential exchange!  Adding handling in anticipation of JSON-LD credentials.
      • Indy Shared:
        • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead)  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
        • indy-credx - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx
        • indy-shared-rs - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-shared-rs
      • Aries Shared:
        • aries-credx - https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
        • areis-askar - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/aries-askar

• Hyperledger Aries
  • Aries Working Group meetings:
    • Meeting Agenda & Notes:  Aries Working Group
    • WG A: 2020-12-16-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
      • Digital Immunization Passport (DIP) - Demo - how ACA-PY, Aries Toolbox, Personal Data Store and OCA can provide data harmonization and authentic data exchange. Christoph Fabianek (OwnYourData), Robert Mitwicki(HCF)
    • WG B:  2020-12-16-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
      • Issues
      • Testing Demo - BCGov - Aries Agent Test Harness daily testing run reports: acapy-acapy, dotnet-dotnet, acapy-dotnet
      • Aries Interop Profile (AIP) Next - Stephen Curran
  • Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
    • Release 0.5.6 is out.
    • Contributions in progress:
      • Multi-Tenant Agent - from Lukas Müller, SICPA and collaborators
      • Java Clients
      • Mediator configuration
    • Toolbox - Various improvements including Transaction Author Agreement support for Indy ledgers requiring it
      • New web app repo https://github.com/thclab/aries 
  • Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)
    • aries-credx - https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
    • areis-askar - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/aries-askar
  • Aries Language Frameworks and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
    • Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)
      • Release 0.5.6 is out.
      • Contributions in progress:
        • DID Exchange support added yesterday to main branch – testing
        • Adjustments for supporting aries-askar – mostly internal
        • Persistent Queues – Kiva
        • Multi-Tenant Support -  SICPA and collaborators (Animo, Anon Solutions)
        • Mediator Support – Indicio
        • Getting to W3C Verifiable Credential support with ZKP and Selective Disclosure with Revocation.
          • DHS SVIP JSON-LD Verifiable Credential exchange in Aries Protocols
          • May be doing some bounties related to this
        • Thinking about adding aries-vdr concept – pluggable, multi-ledger resolution
    • Aries-Framework-Go #aries-go
      • 2020-11-03 Meeting Notes
      • BBS+ Verifiable Credentials implemented using pure Go. Example.
        • Next tasks: interop testing against Mattr implementation and selective disclosure capabilities.
      • Working on adding remote encrypted storage capability - with a default implementation of DIF Secure Data Storage - Encrypted Data Vaults.
        • Encrypted Data Vault (EDV) from DIF SDS spec format has been implemented. Works as an encryption wrapper to underlying storage providers.
        • DIF EDV/SDS REST client is in progress. Docker image will support configuring EDV endpoint as wallet storage.
      • Remote KMS support is in progress. Docker image will support configuring remote KMS. 
      • Created repo to handle pluggable go framework components such as Indy VDR: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go-ext
        • MySQL and CouchDB components moved to ext repo.
        • New contributions of MongoDB and RabbitMQ support to the ext repo.
    • Aries-SDK-Ruby 
      • Horcrux gem for ActiveStorage (0.0.4), moved to https://github.com/decentralized-identity/activestorage-horcrux
  • Tools
    • Aries Toolbox – converted to a web application by Robert Mitwicki - repo https://github.com/thclab/aries 
    • Aries Protocol Test Suite - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-protocol-test-suite
      
    • Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-agent-test-harness

• Hyperledger Ursa
  • Homepage:  Hyperledger Ursa 
  • 2020-11-11 Meeting Agenda
    
    • k256 crate (secp256k1). Should we use it?
      1. Everyone seems in favor.
      2. How to formalize–add to the refactoring documentation.
    • Ursa refactor:
      1. Focus on secret sharing
      2. We may need more buckets
    • Revocation issues (led by Brent):
      1. We should probably wait until refactor is done.
    • IETF Standardizing BLS Signatures
      1. We need to bring our signature into compliance when this happens
      2. We should also switch from Milagro to PairingPlus
    • Discussion on PR #143
      1. Misuse resistance vs efficiency

• Trust Over IP Foundation
  • Main site:  https://trustoverip.org/ 
  • Wiki:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation 
  • 18 Nov 2020 All Members Meeting:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/All+Members+Meeting+Page
    • Meting notes https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-11-18+All+Members+Meeting+Notes 
    • Slides:  Slides
  • 11 Nov 2020 - Steering Committee Meeting:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-11-11+Steering+Committee+Meeting+Page 
    • Human Experience WG Presentation  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-11-11+Steering+Committee+Meeting+Page?preview=/71624/71631/Exhibit%20B%20-%20The%20Human%20Experience%20(working%20group).pptx
  • ToIP Working Groups:
    • Communications Committee
      • https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Communications+Committee 
      • 13 Nov 2020 meeting https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-11-13+Communications+Committee+Meeting+Notes
      • ToIP webinar series being planned
    • Governance Stack
      • Governance models & standards https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/concepts/0289-toip-stack 
      • Main WG Page:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/GSWG+Meeting+Page 
      • 12 Nov 2020 meeting (NA/EU) 
        • Presentation link: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=71236
    • Technical Stack 
      • 16 Nov 2020 WG: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-11-16+Weekly+Meeting
        • ToIP Technology Stack Design Principles (TSWG)
          1. Focus on overall design principles – separate deliverable from the specific Privacy by Design and Laws of Identity TFs
          2. Focus is on TIP independent and stack layer independent. So this is a separate full-stack deliverable. For example: Decentralization
        • ToIP Governance Stack Design Principles (GSWG)
        • ToIP Governance Architecture TSS (GSWG) <== underway
        • ToIP Technical Architecture TSS (TSWG): See RFC 289 Conversion TF
        • Design and Architecture of the ToIP Stack (white paper) (joint deliverable of GSWG and TSWG): Update Foundation Whitepaper
    • Utility Foundry
      • 10 Nov 2020 WG:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-11-10+Meeting+Page
      • Projects:
        • Bedrock

          • Call for interested companies that may be interested in joining. Send email request to Dan Gisolfi stating company name and contact email address.

          • Soft Launch Scheduled for 18 Nov 2020.

        • IDunion 
          • Competition phase in final stages, proposal has been handed in to German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs for execution phase. Final project report is work in progress. Activities on IDunion legal entity continue.
        • Sovrin
        • Indicio
          • Indicio TestNet had successful "first upgrade" last week. DemoNet scheduled to be "live" by the end of next week, and MainNet scheduled to be "live" by the end of the year. Official announcements are forthcoming. 
    • Ecosystem Foundry
      • WG:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+Meeting+Page
      • 19 Nov 2020 WG:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+2020-11-19+Meeting+Notes
        • Github Project Boards reference links
          https://github.com/features/project-management/
          https://github.com/orgs/trustoverip/projects/2
          https://github.com/trustoverip/ecosystem-foundry-wg/projects
    • Decentralized Semantics
      • Main:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Semantics+Working+Group  
      • 1 Dec 2020 Meeting:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-12-01+Weekly+Meeting
        • Recording
        • Slides https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-12-01+Weekly+Meeting?preview=/71766/71770/ToIP%20Semantics%20WG%20Weekly%20Meeting.pdf 
    • Concepts and Terminology 
      • WG:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=65700
      • Develop a glossary of shared concepts and terminology  

• DIF DIDComm Working Group
  • Rolling Agenda:  https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm/blob/main/agenda.md
  • Milestones
    • First Complete Draft - reads correctly from beginning to end Nov 30th
  • DIDComm.org Progress
    • Repo:  https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm.org

  • DID Use Cases

    • Original: https://github.com/w3c/did-use-cases/pull/100
    • Nader: https://github.com/w3c/did-use-cases/pull/122

  • PR/Issues:

    • 127 - structured headers
    • 128 - to header semantics
    • 129 - post quantum
    • 126 - DIDDocs for Peer DIDs

  • DIDComm Bootstrapping and Discovery Technique

    • Social Profile Association Credential
• 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
• Sovrin Foundation
  • Technical Governance Board (TGB)
    • 12 Nov 2020 Meeting Minutes:  
    • No call on 26 Nov 2020
  • Steward Council
    • 12 Nov 2020 Meeting Minutes:  
    • Reviewed Workstreams (1) Health monitoring, 2) technical, 3) community engagement)
    • No call on 26 Nov 2020
  • Network is healthy with near 100% uptime

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

• Other?

Presentation

Slides:  

Future Topics

• Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org) 

Call Recording