2022-07-20 Aries Working Group Call

Summary:

• Followups
• Credential... attachments?

Date

20 Jul 2022 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

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Attendees                   

• Sam Curren (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• Aries Interop-a-thon: proposed for August 31 7:00 am to 11:00 pm MDT
• Hyperledger Global Forum, Dublin, Sept. 12-14
• Rebooting Web of Trust, Den Hague, September 26-30 

Release Status and Work Updates

• Aries Agent Test Harness (https://aries-interop.info)
• Aries Shared Components - Indy SDK replacements
  • Shared Rust Library/CredX (AnonCreds) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-shared-rs
  • Indy Verifiable Date Registry - Ledger Interface https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
  • Aries Askar secure storage - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-askar
    • 0.2.5 release - performance/load work and testing – specific load errors reduced (down to 0.05% error rate), performance up 11%
• Frameworks:
  • Aries-CloudAgent-Python (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python, Meetings: ACA-Pug Meetings)
  • Aries-Framework-JavaScript (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript, Meetings: Framework JS Meetings)
    • Version 0.2.1 released - follow up to major 0.2.0 release
    • Working on 0.3.0 release
      • Issue Credential / Present Proof v2
      • Merged: OOB / DIDExchange - merged last Friday
      • Merged: Holder revocation with revocation notifications support
  • Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-go, Meetings: aries-framework-go) 
  • Aries VCX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx)
  • Aries-Framework-DotNet (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-dotnet)
• Mobile:
  • Aries Mobile Agent React Native, aka Aries Bifold (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native, Meetings: Aries Bifold User Group Meetings)
    • Aries Framework JavaScript 0.2.0 now merged into Aries Bifold
  • Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin aka Aries MAX (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobileagent-xamarin)
• aries-mediator-service repo added – a DIDComm Mediator in a Box
• Aries-Toolbox
• Aries-SDK-Java
• Ursa (https://www.hyperledger.org/use/hyperledger-ursa, https://github.com/hyperledger/ursa)

Discussion Topics

• Followup
• Credential.... Attachments? -Sam
  • Images with hashlink in credential
  • JSON-LD Creds about issuer
  • Questions:
    • What do we name these? Attachments is overloaded.
      • Sidecars?
    • How do we know which attachments are what?
    • What is expected when attachments are received?
    • Expected UX experience?
      • Some are about others (issuer)
      • Some might not want to be revealed, or only if an attribute is shared.

Other Business

Future Topics'

• Device Binding Alternatives https://hackmd.io/6hUuZIjGQpeLVAqcxdakZA#comparison-on-hardware-binding-linkage-mechanism - Paul Bastian
• Aries Interop-a-thon planning
• Proxy Ledger Access Followup
• decorator for redirection after proofs. - existing?
• Standardized attribute names for AnonCreds - alignment with VC data model. (Paul Bastian)
  • terms and conditions (as link)
  • machine-readable governance?

Action items

Call Recording

• 20220713 Aries Working Group Call Recording.mp4