2020-02-19-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Summary:

• Ticket Game: Can we close this?
• Toolbox demos
• Community Feedback

Note: This call is being recorded.

Date

19 Feb 2020 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>
• Sam Curren  (Sovrin Foundation) <sam@sovrin.org>
• George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>
• Ken Ebert (Sovrin Foundation) <ken@sovrin.org>
• Paul Knowles (Dativa) <paul.knowles@dativa.com>
• John Callahan (Veridium) <jcallahan@veridiumid.com>
• Daniel Bluhm (Sovrin Foundation) <daniel.bluhm@sovrin.org>
• Nathan George (Sovrin Foundation) <nathan@sovrin.org>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
• Adam Burdett (Sovrin Foundation) <adam@sovrin.org>
• Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>
• Drummond Reed (Evernym) <drummond.reed@evernym.com>
• Robert Mitwicki The Human Colossus Foundation <robert@thclab.online>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• Hyperledger Global Forum

• IIW
• Special Indy Contributors Call on Tuesday, February 25: Supporting Indy Networks

Related Meetings Review

• Ursa - No calls since the last Aries meeting.
• Semantics - yesterday's call (18/02) - Notes
  • (i.) Rich schema update 
  • (ii.) Development plans for Kantara Initiative’s Consent Receipt v.2.0.
  • (iii.) Using Verifiable Credentials to resolve external schemas and data payloads using Hashlinks
  • Next meeting: 03/03 (Tuesday)
• DID UX Call - Slack/Mailing list - details in the shared document as well minutes and additional information, currently focus on Purpose Based Services
  • F2F Meeting meetup
• SSI in IoT WG
• Indy Contributors - Richard Esplin (Mon) - Notes
• Identity WG / Identity WG Implementer calls (Wed / Thurs) 
• DIF DIDComm WG - Monday's at Noon US/Pacific 

Upcoming Releases and Work Updates

• Aries Protocol Test Suite
  • Issue, credential, and proof tests are merged.
• Aries Shared:
  • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead) https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-vdr
    • Largely complete - review and polishing.  Heading to Hyperledger soon.
      • Building into VON Network so that we can that without the SDK.
    • As an Aries interface becomes standardized, will add that API layer
  • indy-aries-anoncreds / indy-creds → indy-credx
    • https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
  • Aries-Shared-Util
    • Pack / Unpack
    • Not started yet
  • Aries-KMS
    • Will support multiple approaches
    • Mike and Cam's aries-core-rs → aries-kms-(placeholder)
      https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-core-rs
    • aries-kms-taiga: evolution of the Indy wallet crate as a starting point
      
• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)
  • 0.4.2 released
  • 0.4.3 in the works - ledger read-only mode; first step of did/http message type namespace transition; improved Swagger demo
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
  • Demonstrated in-browser WASM along with mediator during the morning call.
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
  • Added DID/Verkey sign_and_submit to aries_sdk_ruby and published new gem (0.0.8)
  • Created aries-rails-docker experiment that support Rails 4 with Indy 1.8.1 on Heroku & Dokku
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
• Aries-StaticAgent-Python
• Aries-Toolbox
  • Added basic message admin
  • Working on a getting started video
• Aries-SDK-Java
• Aries-Framework-JavaScript / Aries-SDK-JavaScript
  • Started regular meetings: Framework JS Meetings
• Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
  • Encoding object HIPE and RFC are now available for review
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-hipe/pull/154
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/418 
  • Common 
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-hipe/pull/153
      
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/420
• Ursa
  • 0.3.1 release in January
  • 0.3.2 released in February, includes key exchange methods (can replace libsodium)

Agenda

• Issue Game: Can we merge this? (15 min): 
  • 324
  • 335
  • 336
  • 201
• Aries Toolbox Demo - Module loading and BasicMessage Admin (Daniel Bluhm - 15min)
• Demo: Toolbox Adaptation + Data Store Integration (Robert Mitwicki - 20 min)
• Community Feedback
  • Call Agendas
    • Presenters from outside our core community
    • DIF
      • Interop - Orie
      • DID Methods
    • W3C
      • Credential Interop JSON-LD
  • Work within the community
    • Roadmap?
      • Quarterly, helps with resourcing and planning
  • Business communication of community work
    • solutions showcase at HyperLedger
    • case studies
• Open Discussion / Next Week Topics

Next Week

Future Topics

• DIF Interop Project - Project is proceeding, connect the communities at IIW
• DKMS status
• Credential Fraud:  Example how in ACA-Py to verify same link secret across multiple credentials in presentation
• Schema interop - how to reused schema across different networks Robert Mitwicki(RFC in progress)
• 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 
• Formal protocol verification techniques
  • https://github.com/SvenHammann90/SSI/blob/master/RWOT_9/Topic_Paper_RWOT.md (using Tamarin)
  • https://github.com/johncallahan/needham_shroeder_spin (non-Aries example using SPIN/Promela)
• What's left for DID Exchange protocol?
  • Some discussion in: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/366

Action items

Call Recording