2019-11-27-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Summary:

Topics:

• DIDComm DIF WG
• Aries Toolbox & ACApy Toolbox Plugin
• Test Suite Pluggable Backchannels
• Zmix API in Anoncreds 2.0

Note: This call is being recorded.

Date

27 Nov 2019 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>
• Stephen Curran  (Cloud Compass/BC Gov) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
• John Callahan (Veridium) <jcallahan@veridiumid.com>
• Daniel Bluhm (Sovrin Foundation) <daniel.bluhm@sovrin.org>
• George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>
• Troy Ronda (SecureKey) <troy.ronda@securekey.com>
• Paul Knowles (Dativa) <paul.knowles@dativa.com>
• Robert Mitwicki The Human Colossus Lab <robert@thclab.online>
• Daniel Hardman (Evernym)
• Tobias Looker (Mattr) <tobias.looker@mattr.global>
• Drummond Reed (Evernym & Sovrin Foundation) <drummond.reed@evernym.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• Aries Workshop/Connectathon December 3-5 in Provo, Utah
  • Thank you Sponsors: StreetCred and Hyperledger and CULedger! - More Food Sponsors welcome!
  • Please RSVP
• Webinar on peer DIDs Recording Posted
• New Indy/Aries/Ursa edX course, now online - enroll now!

Related Meetings Review

• Ursa - Progress on packages and Plenum work.
• Semantics - ODCA pilots underway - The agenda, video, notes, etc. from the HL Indy Semantics WG call: 
  • Read more: https://odca.online and https://tool.odca.online
  • Fully functional parser: https://github.com/THCLab/odca-ruby
• DID UX Call - Slack/Mailing list - details in the shared document as well minutes and additional information, currently focus on Purpose Based Services
• SSI in IoT WG
• Indy Contributors - Richard Esplin (Mon) - Discussed future of Indy Ledger (View Change, Aardvark BFT, bug fixes, future of Plenum)
• Identity WG / Identity WG Implementer calls (Wed / Thurs)

Upcoming Releases and Work Updates

• 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)
    
  • Working on aries-kms RFC 
• Verifiable Data Registry Interface library
  • Ken's POC
• Other Core Libraries (pack / unpack)
• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov) - Latest is Release 0.3.5 on PyPi - no code releases. Release 0.4.0 is likely next, which will have some breaking changes.
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
  • Weekly planning notes (2019-11-26).
  • Working on mediator/routing, WebSocket transport, WASM, browser primitives.
  • RFC efforts WIP from aries-framework-go contributors:
    • JWE compliant envelope
    • DIDAuthZ
    • DIDComm tunnels (particularly HTTP over DIDComm)
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
  • No update this week
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
• Aries-StaticAgent-Python - 0.7.0
• Aries-Toolbox
  • Moving repos to HyperLedger's Github Org.
  • ACApy plugin for supported admin protocols.
• Aries-SDK-Python - Wrapper from JeromK and SBCA?
• Aries-Framework-Java #aries-framework-java on RocketChat
• Aries-SDK-JavaScript
  • PR for moving Indy NodeJS wrapper repo has been merged into https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript
  • Repo is ready for contributors to start picking next tasks
  • Regular weekly zoom calls to be scheduled from this Friday. Will share the details on Rocket Chat.
  • 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 processing feedback 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 PR in progress https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/pull/1513
• Migration from LibIndy
  • Closing PRs related to Indy wrappers with pointers to Aries language libraries
  • LibVCX support for some Aries protocols
• Ursa 0.3.0 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

Agenda

• Issue Game: Can we close this? (15 min - Stephen Curran) - presentation, issues (as time permits): #262, #240, #201, #318
• DIDComm DIF Working Group ( 10 min - Sam Curren)
  • Mailing List
• Aries Toolbox & ACApy Toolbox Plugin (10 min - Sam & Daniel Bluhm)
• Test Suite Pluggable Backchannels (10 min - Daniel Bluhm)
• Zmix API in Anoncreds 2.0 (20 min - Lovesh)
  • The code for the PoC is here.
• Deferred: Use of please_ack in the issue_credentials protocol (15 min - Stephen Curran) - presentation
• Open Discussion / Next Week Topics

Next Week

• Both calls will happen from the Connectathon

Future Topics

• DIF Interop Project - Project is proceeding, connect the communities at IIW
• DKMS status
• Independent agent upgrades
• 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. (and protocol documentation hosting.) 
• Formal protocol verification techniques
  • https://github.com/SvenHammann90/SSI/blob/master/RWOT_9/Topic_Paper_RWOT.md (using ProVerif)
  • https://github.com/johncallahan/needham_shroeder_spin (non-Aries example using SPIN/Promela)

Action items

Call Recording