2019-09-12 Identity WG Implementers Call

Summary

Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom here https://zoom.us/j/232861185

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

Date

29 Aug 2019 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Announcements

• Aries Workshop/Connectathon December 3-5 in Provo, Utah (details to follow)
• Hyperledger Maintainers Summit October 8-10
  
• IIW October 1-3
• Other Announcements

Working Group Reports

• Main Identity WG
• Hyperledger Indy
  • Indy is not going away, but is being resized and will continue to have a rust library and wrappers for everyone to use.  However, some Indy code / functionality is migrating over to Aries.
• Indy Semantics WG
  • No meeting this week
• Hyperledger Aries
  • Morning call focused on divisions of functionality and how some of Indy code migrates to Aries
  • Afternoon call
    • Focused on the states of the various DID working groups 
    • Discussed a proposal for whether DIDs should be Sovrin-based or use https, GitHub, etc.
    • Will continue the DIDs proposal in next week's call
• Hyperledger Ursa
  • Open PRs for AnonCreds 2.  Getting close to completion
  • Currently builds a package on Ubuntu
• Sovrin Network updates and extensions
  • Builder net went down with a bug, but a resolution has been issued quickly
  • Working on an automated to automate on boarding.  Links will be published in the near future.
  • MainNet requires previously signing the appropriate legal agreements, so automating it is more difficult
  • Lawyers are working on expanded legal agreements for government organizations 
• Sovrin Governance Frameworks and Trust Architecture
  • Revising the legal documents to anticipate government usage and consumption
  • Resolving issues, so that the documents address the needs of governments, large organizations, and small organizations
  • https://sovrin.org/governance-framework/
• W3C Verifiable Credentials and DID updates

  • Last meeting held on Tues.  Main document is open for viewing and voting

  • Use Case, Test Suite, documents will be wrapped up this week
  • Next DID WG meeting to be held next week in Japan – expecting ~80 attendees
• Interop and External updates (Dmitri Zagidulin) 
• Rebooting Web of Trust (Daniel Hardman)
  • Quite a bit of interest in the concept of 'agents'
  • Hubs are focused on data management and Agents are focused on performing actions on behalf of an owner
  • Threat modeling for verifiable credentials (all kinds)
  • Paper:  Alice Abuses Her Credential
• Invite to Identity WG Main Call (Vipin Bharathan)
  • Discussion on migrating from WG calls to Task Forces
    • Goal:  disseminate information or perform work?

Topics for upcoming discussions

Open Discussion (Future Topics)

Next Meeting Topics

Future Topics

• Roadmap coordination between Indy, Aries and Ursa

Action items

Call Recording