2019-09-25-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Summary:

• Test Suite Importance
• In Discussion RFCs (like DID Exchange)
• Non-repudiation in did-exchange response
• Decorator Versioning

Note: This call is being recorded.

Date

25 Sep 2019 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 5AM Sydney)

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>
• Troy Ronda (SecureKey) <troy.ronda@securekey.com>
• George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>
• Daniel Bluhm (Sovrin Foundation) <daniel.bluhm@sovrin.org>
• Tobias Looker (Mattr) <tobias.looker@mattr.global>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
• John Callahan   (Veridium) <jcallahan@veridiumid.com>
• Andrew Whitehead (BC Gov) <cywolf@gmail.com>
• Moushmi Banerjee (Nutanix) <moushmi.banerjee@nutanix.com>
• Daniel Hardman (Evernym)
• Brent Zundel (evernym <brent.zundel@evernym.com>
• Oskar van Deventer <oskar.vandeventer@tno.nl>
• Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• MyData Global 25-27 September (NGI Forum 25 Sep)
• IIW - Oct 1 - 3
• Hyperledger Meetup Belgrade October 2
• Hyperledger Maintainer Summit in Minneapolis (October 8-10)
• Hyperledger Bootcamp Russia (October 13-14)
• Aries Workshop/Connectathon December 3-5 in Provo, Utah (details to follow)
• `aries-cloudagent-python` and `aries-framework-dotnet` propose to switch from the `connections` protocol to the `did-exchange` protocol the week after IIW (Oct. 6-11). It will take most of the week to get all implementations and documentation updated and deployed.
• Request from Troy Ronda that those interested in using JWE for pack()/unpack() (aka Encryption Envelope) push on getting that issue resolved. Issue 133, RFC 0019.
• Kiva is working on an Aries Wallet implementation. See notes in the #aries channel or ping Cam Parra
• DID Document Server based on the DNS framework - worked on by Michael Herman
• Other Announcements

Related Meetings Review

• Morning Aries Call - move current indy-sdk functionality to aries-sdk.
• Ursa - 
• Semantics - 
• Indy Contributors - Richard Esplin - Monday - View Change Protocol, probably October.
• Identity Implementer Call - Next week at 8AM Pacific;  Last Week: 

Upcoming Releases and Work Updates

• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)
  • 0.3.3 release - fixes and dependancy updates
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy)
  • Weekly planning notes (2019-09-24)
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack) - rails & indy-sdk docker working with aries-sdk-ruby gem
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
• Aries-StaticAgent-Python - (nothing new) Release 0.4.0
• Aries-SDK-Python - PR from JeromeK - weigh-in from those interested in Python wrapper would be appreciated.
• Aries-SDK-Java
• Aries-SDK-JavaScript -
• Indy
  • Indy Node
  • Indy SDK
• Ursa

Agenda

• Test Suite Importance (Daniel Hardman) https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/220
• In Discussion RFCs (like DID Exchange) (Sam Curren)
• Non-repudiation in did-exchange response:
  • Aries RFC:  https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/features/0023-did-exchange#2-exchange-response
  • Original HIPE that was never merged:  https://github.com/kdenhartog/indy-hipe/blob/d421fc77bae87c780aad346d15c0c49939adc281/text/digital-signatures/README.md
  • "ed25519Sha512_single" algorithm not defined
  • Refactor contents of  connection~sig  to JWS?
• Decorator Versioning (Tobias and Daniel Hardman) https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/78
• Future Topics - Suggestions
• Open Discussion

Next Week

Future Topics

• DIF Interop Project - Project is proceeding, connect the communities at IIW
• DKMS status
• Signature Envelope (Kyle)
  • Updating to JWE compliant data model
• Credential Fraud:  Example how in ACA-Py to verify same link secret across multiple credentials in presentation
• Using WebSocket as a way to communicate back to the mobile/desktop wallet (Agent (services or user) as a proxy for communication between service and digital wallet) Robert Mitwicki
• Update message type and protocol identifier to https. 

Call Recording