2020-09-24 Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom here https://zoom.us/j/244779296 

Date

24 Sep 2020 3PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

Announcements

• Oct 20-22:  Internet Identity Workshop (IIW -- to be held online) 
• Central repository for industry meeting slides:  

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

• Main Identity WG
  • Meeting Notes:  2020-09-16
  • Presentation:   Deepak Maram (PhD student at Cornell University) presents CanDID: a platform that enables users to more easily manage their own credentials.  Integrates with existing web service logins.
    • Paper:  https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/934

• Hyperledger Indy
  • Code Management Updates
    • Migrate Jira to Github issues
    • Moving from Jenkins to GitHub actions
    • Revocation 2.0 (target:  available Summer 2020) – It's in the code, has it officially launched?
  • Contributors Meeting
    • 2020-09-15 Indy Contributors Call
      • Reviewed the Indy Interop-athon (Presentation) 
      • Discussed new indy-node release cycle, CI/CD migration, and the "did:indy" DID Method.
    • 2020-09-17 Special: Planning Next Indy Node Release
      
      • New workflow doc:  
      • Replacing crypto in indy-node with Ursa
  • Indy Node
    • Planning for Ubuntu 20.04 - other dependencies - Jira Issue
  • Indy SDK
    
    • Indy VDR into LibIndy
    • Indy Credx into LibIndy
  • Indy/Aries Shared Libraries
    • Aries Shared:
      • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead)  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
      • indy-credx - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx
      • indy-shared-rs - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-shared-rs
      • aries-credx - https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
      • Aries Secure Storage initiatives
  • Indy Semantics WG
    • Does anyone have a current WG page link?
    • 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:  2020-09-23-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
      • Updates on work projects
    • WG B:  2020-09-23-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
      • Closing Game
        • PR 532 - Status Update on community coordinated type transition.
      • Machine Readable Governance Framework
        • PR 535 - Initial Framework
      • DIDComm V2 What's New? - Sam
        • Guide Section
        • Rough Notes
      • Indy Revocation Issues in Aries - Stephen - Presentation
  • Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
    • Aries Cloud Agent Python - ACA-Py User Group (ACA-Pug) Bi-weekly meetings
      • Release 0.5.4 done - Release Notes
        • simplification of revocation handling
        • simplification in the controller space
    • 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
  • Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)
    • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead)  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
      • Verifiable Data Registry (VDR; ledger)
    • indy-credx / aries-credx (merging)
      • Rust layer that wraps Anoncreds (1.0 currently) 
      • https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
      • https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx
    • 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)
    • Aries-Framework-Go #aries-go
      • 0.1.4 release notes
      • Mobile (android/iOS) code snippets for using protocols and receiving notifications (Java/Kotlin; Objective-C/Swift). See Go framework mobile agent README.
    • Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin (Aries MAX) - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobileagent-xamarin
    • Aries-SDK-Ruby 
      • Horcrux gem for ActiveStorage (0.0.4)
        • moved to https://github.com/decentralized-identity/activestorage-horcrux
        • refactored to change blob key directly (instead of via Tempfile)
  • Tools
    • Aries Toolbox – converted to a web application by Robert Mitwicki - repo https://github.com/thclab/aries 
    • Aries Protocol Test Suite - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-protocol-test-suite
      
    • Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-agent-test-harness

• Hyperledger Ursa
  • Homepage:  Hyperledger Ursa 
  • 2020-09-16 Meeting Agenda
    • Member Summit summary.
    • Discussion of post-quantum crypto.
      1. Users of Ursa do have demand for post-quantum crypto, particularly for key exchange.
      2. Forward secrecy is necessary.
    • Wrapper discussion
      1. We have a lot of wrappers for Ursa–where should we include them.
      2. We want to have separate folders for our wrappers.

• Trust Over IP Foundation
  • Main site:  https://trustoverip.org/ 
  • Wiki:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation 
  • Steering Committee:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Steering+Committee+Meeting+Page
  • 9 Sep 2020 - Steering Committee Meeting:  
  • ToIP Working Groups:
    • Communications Committee
      • https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Communications+Committee 
      • Confluence wiki organization, development, templates, and training
      • V2 of our ToIP stack diagram
      • V2 of our Introducing the Trust over IP Foundation white paper
      • New ToIP Interoperability Profiles white paper
    • Governance Stack
      • Governance models & standards https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/concepts/0289-toip-stack 
      • Main WG Page:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/GSWG+Meeting+Page 
      • 23 Sept 2020 meeting (APAC)
        • Presentation link:  here
        • Meeting slides:  slides
      • 17 Sep 2020 meeting (NA/EU)
        • Presentation link:  Recording
        • Discussion of roadmap:  Specifications, Templates, Definitions, Recommendations, and white papers
      • ToIP Standards Specification (TSS) - defines overall governance framework model, intended to become an industry standard.  May be implemented by multiple TIPs
      • Layer One Utility Governance Framework Templates (based on Sovrin)
    • Technical Stack 
      • WG:  9/21/2020 https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-09-21+Weekly+Meeting
        • Discussion topics
          
          • Saturn V Proposal – on hold pending Design Principles it can reference (Laws of Identity, Privacy by Design)
          • Review ToIP Deliverables Repo
          • TSWG Deliverables and Process
            • Convert concepts discussed here:  TSWG Deliverables Process, TIP Incubation and Graduation Process
            • TIP Proposal Template was introduced and need to be incorporated into the broader TSWG process.
    • Utility Foundry
      • Focus on Layer One (e.g., Indy ledger) utility projects
      • WG:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/UFWG+Meeting+Page
      • 9-15-2020:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-09-15+Meeting+Page
      • Bedrock
        1. Call for interested companies that may be interested in joining.
      • SSI4DE
        1. Co-Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs.
      • Sovrin MainNet
        1. Transition Team has commenced work. Stability of MainNet is the focus. There is focus on membership ramp-up and acquiring new funds for the Sovrin Foundation to have operational stability and hire for new positions including a Community Manager 
    • Ecosystem Foundry
      • WG:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/EFWG+Meeting+Page
        • Patient Identity Task Force introduction - Dinocrates Group LLC
        • Human Trafficking Ecosystem Task Force introduction - Secours.io
        • Entidad Ecosystem Use Case - entidad.io
        • Ecosystem template and term definitions
    • Decentralized Semantics
      • WG:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-09-08+Weekly+Meeting

        • Presentation: Interoperable schema (Presented by Robert—10 mins)

          • Ref.: https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/II/Agenda?preview=/36734080/39617940/20200902%20IIO%20Vision%20For%20Interoperable%20Schema_0.mp4

    • Concepts and Terminology 
      • WG:  https://wiki.trustoverip.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=65700
      • Develop a glossary of shared concepts and terminology  

• DIF DIDComm Working Group
  • WG Rolling Agenda 
  • What are the possibilities for didcomm.org?
  • Discussion of DIDComm Errors (https://hackmd.io/NgbwTRg1RfKAQJ6QRUizKg)
  • PR/Issues:
  • What’s New section (0RTT Implications) PR 96
    • Previous 0RTT notes
  • Remove unneeded DID Exchange and OOB v1 PR 73
    • Parent Thread? Issue 95
    • Message Threading PR 102
  • What if V2 didn’t have AnonCrypt? Issue 92
  • Trust Ping PR 97
  • Feature Discovery PR 98
  • PR 103 & 104 - moved to issues?
  • PR 117 - Perfect Forward Secrecy details
  • Issue 100 - End of Interaction, Death of DID?
  • Issue 113 - DIDComm over gRPC
• DIF Interoperability Group
  • https://identity.foundation/interop/ 
  • Participation does not require DIF membership (to sign-up:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekX5D5l1oXv1Z-jtn6Yq6R3_KwreRDuu2v2zHv2v2zoxeG5g/viewform)
  • DIF Interop WG Charter Draft 
• Sovrin Foundation
  • Technical Governance Board (TGB)
    • Meeting Minutes:  
    • 17 Sept 2020
      • Discussed the roles of user / author, trustee, & stewards
      • Ledger status
  • Steward Council
    • All Steward Call 8-20-2020
    • Steward Council Meeting Page:  
    • Reviewed Workstreams (1) Health monitoring, 2) technical, 3) community engagement)
    • 
  • Network is healthy with near 100% uptime

• W3C Standard
  • Verifiable Credentials Working Group
  • DID Working Group
    • DID Working Group Face-to-Face this week. Expect freeze to standard in May.

• Other?

Open Discussion

Future Topics

• Trust over IP (www.trustoverip.org) 

Call Recording