2019-11-20-A Aries Working Group Call (US morning)

Summary:

Planned

• Work updates
• Aries crypto service RFC
• Progress on POCs for Aries Core libraries: aries-kms and aries-vdri

Note: This call is Recorded. Recordings posted at the bottom of the page.

Date

20 Nov 2019 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 18H Moscow)

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Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• Aries Workshop/Connectathon December 3-5 in Provo, Utah - Dates Confirmed, Food Sponsors welcome!
  • Please RSVP
• Webinar on peer DIDs Nov 21 at 1 PM MST, ssimeetup.org
• Proposal to renumber RFC 0289

Related Calls

• Previous Aries Working Group calls
• Identity Implementors Working Group call
  • Main place to get project updates, release status, and announcements.

Release Status and Work Updates

• Aries Protocol Test Suite
  • Works, and ready for test contributions
• Aries-KMS
  • Moving Indy Wallet crate into aries-ams / aries-kms (might change the repo name)
  • cam's rust aries-kms (just old code in repo right now, once I add more to my RFC I will focus my attention to adding code here)
    
  • SQLite as the default wallet.
  • aries-ams-sqlite is archived
  • Need to migrate Postgres wallet plugin from Indy to aries-ams-postgres
• Verifiable Data Registry Interface library
  • Static Peer DIDs in aries-vdri as the default implementation
  • aries-vdri-peer is archived
  • Ken's POC
• Other Core Libraries (pack / unpack)
• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov) - Latest is Release 0.3.5 on PyPi
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy)
  • Weekly planning notes (2019-11-05)
  • Wrapping up 0.1.0 release and starting on 0.1.1.
  • https://didcomm.org is now used as the prefix for message types (replaces did:sov:....)
  • Successful experimentation on the possibility of exposing additional bindings (C, WASM).
    • (We currently have Go and REST.)
  • You can play with the framework by running BDD tests (make bdd-test) or with the OpenAPI (swagger) interface (See README).
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
  • Updated to 0.0.6 at RubyGems https://rubygems.org/gems/aries-sdk-ruby
  • Rails sample project using aries-sdk-ruby at https://github.com/johncallahan/aries-rails
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
• Aries-StaticAgent-Python
• Aries-SDK-Python - Wrapper from JeromK and SBCA?
• Aries-SDK-Java
• Aries-SDK-JavaScript
  • DIF people interested in implementing a Java Script library that might share some of the functionality of the Aries SDK. We need to keep that in mind.
• Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
  • HIPEs/RFCs
    • overview https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/concepts/0250-rich-schemas
    • context https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/features/0249-rich-schema-contexts
    • schema https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/features/0281-rich-schemas
  • Next HIPEs/RFCs for
    • encoding
    • mapping
    • credential definition 
  • Node implementation of
    • context (merged)
    • schema in progress 
• Migration from LibIndy
  • Closing PRs related to Indy wrappers with pointers to Aries language libraries
  • LibVCX support for some Aries protocols
• Ursa 3.0 release in November
  • Updated BLS signature (multi-signatures, small-BLS)
  • Compilation optimization for specific hardware
  • Rest of predicates for Anoncreds 2.0 and delegatable credentials

RFC Progress

• Rich Schema RFC headed to an APPROVED status, Troy had some comments on how the Link Secrets tie to W3C spec.
• New RFC: Trust-over IP Overview  RFC 0289
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/concepts/0289-toip-stack
  • RFC 1?
  • Troy's feedback: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/292
• Proposal for an "RFC 2"
  • Sergey thinks we need an overview of how the many protocols fit together.

Other Business

• Crypto Service RFC, Robert Mitwicki
  • https://github.com/mitfik/aries-rfcs/tree/master/features/0312-crypto-service
  • Overlap with Aries-KMS
• Progress on POCs for Core Libraries: Aries-KMS, Aries-VDRI

Future Topics

• Next call
  • Hubs vs Agents
    • https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2019/07/23/rhythm-and-melody-how-hubs-and-agents-rock-together
• Other:
  
  • Status and future of wallet query language
  • IOT best practices (Robert Mitwicki, Adam Burdett , Lohan Spies )
  • DID Resolution W3C and Sam's concerns: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/130
  • Architecture of Aries Verifiable Credentials Proof Formats (Mike Lodder)

Action items

Call Recording