2020-04-09 Identity WG Implementers Call

Summary

Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom here https://zoom.us/j/244779296 (this is the meeting invite that worked as of 2/13/2020 https://zoom.us/j/244779296)

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

Date

09 Apr 2020 4PM UTC, 9AM PDT, 10AM MDT, 12AM EDT

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com)
• John Callahan (Veridium) <jcallahan@veridiumid.com>
• Nathan George (Independent) <nathan@ngeorge.org>
• Gary DeGruccio (gddg57@ptd.net)

Announcements

• Internet Identity Workshop, April 28-30, (https://internetidentityworkshop.com)
• New:  SSI Covid-19 group (http://fightthevirus.world) 

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

• Main Identity WG
  • Meeting notes
  • Video recording posted from March 18: Known Traveler Digital Identity
• Hyperledger Indy
  • Contributors Meeting
    • Specific case of troubleshooting an Indy network
    • Notes and recording
  • Indy Node
    • March: delayed until April to use the new Ursa.
    • April: New Ursa, including better hashing. Rich schemas objects. Bug fixes. Also a statically linked ZMQ tool.
    • Slowing release cadence to every-other month-ish.
  • Indy SDK
    
    • March: 1.14.4: Bug fixes and new features in LibVCX (Connection Redirect and Reject Proof)
    • Smaller releases because of focus on Aries Shared libraries.
  • Indy Catalyst
    • https://github.com/bcgov/indy-catalyst
    • Moving to Aries as the Aries Verifiable Credential Registry
  • Indy Semantics WG
    • ODCA pilots underway
    • The agenda, video, notes, etc. from the HL Indy Semantics WG call: 
• Hyperledger Aries
  • Aries Working Group meetings:
    • Meeting Agenda & Notes:  Aries Working Group
    • WG A:
      • Last meeting: Detailed work update.
      • Next meetings: Formal verification (April 8), IoT best practices (April 22)
    • WG B: meeting notes 2020-02-12-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon) 
      • Mediator cloud agents
      • DIDExchange
    • Next WG A: Discussing Aries-Framework-Go. Notes and recordings
  • Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
    • Cloud Agent Python
      • Release 0.4.1 is pending

        • This will be synchronously deployed with Streetcred, as both will be making a non-backwards compatible change to align with RFCs.

      • Launch of ACA-Py User Group (ACA-Pug) and #aries-cloudagent-python
    • Static Agent Python - Release 0.7.1 - Patch to accept base64url encoded values with or without padding
    • Toolbox - Various improvements including Transaction Author Agreement support for Indy ledgers requiring it
  • Tools
    • Aries Protocol Test Suite
    • Aries Toolbox
  • Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)
    • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead)  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
      • Remaining work: Design doc, FFI, testing, CI / CD
      • As an Aries interface becomes standardized, will add that API layer
      • Integrating into LibIndy in a separate branch, goal is to release in April/May
    • indy-credx / aries-credx
      • https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
      • https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx
      • Ran a branch of ACAPy with Aries Credx instead of LibIndy
    • Aries-Shared-Util
      • Pack / Unpack
      • Not started yet
    • Aries-KMS
      • Mike's presentation in Aries WG A
      • Mike and Cam's aries-core-rs → aries-kms-mayaguez
        https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-kms-rs
      • Indy wallet crate might move to start another aries-kms implementation → aries-kms-vostok
  • Aries Language Frameworks and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
• Hyperledger Ursa
  • 0.4.0 scheduled for late March
    • Hash to curve
    • Updates to AMCL wrapper
  • Presentations
• Sovrin
  • Status of the network is good, even though the Sovrin Foundation is going through a transition.
• DIF DIDComm Working Group
  • WG Rolling Agenda 
  • Outlining changes that are needed to Aries RFCs.
• W3C Standards
  • Verifiable Credentials Working Group
  • DID Working Group
    • DID Working Group Face-to-Face this week. Expect freeze to standard in May.
• Other?

Open Discussion

Next Meeting Topics

Future Topics

• The ACA-Py REST API

Action items

Call Recording