2021-08-04-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Summary

• WACI-PEx update
• ForgetMe Protocol
• Future Aries Issues

Date: 04 Aug 2021 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)

Attendees

• Sam Curren(Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
• James Ebert (Indicio) <james.ebert@indicio.tech>
• Troy Ronda (SecureKey) <troy.ronda@securekey.com>

Announcements

• IIW (online) Oct 12-14
• Indicio Public Mediator Upgrade/Deprecation (https://indicio-tech.github.io/mediator/)

Related Meetings Review

• Ursa - 
• SSI in IoT WG
• Indy Contributors - Every 2nd Tuesday 8am US/Pacific (next week) - CI/CD of Indy Node and Plenum, Ubuntu 20.04 release. no updates.
• Indy DID Method Tuesdays 7am Pacific - no updates
• 2021-07-29 : Identity Implementers WG Call:  Horacio Nunez (Kiva) will give an overview of some of Kiva's SSI efforts.
• DIF DIDComm WG - Monday's at Noon US/Pacific - Sam Curren (Mon) - 
•  - early community discussions
• TrustoverIP Saturn5 Interop Testing - Friday 9am EST (Keith Smith )  See "Saturn V - Vendor Scrum (TSWG)" at https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Calendar+of+ToIP+Meetings
• Cardea - Users Group meeting every Thursday 10am MDT - https://cardea.app/  -  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3933667495?pwd=ZnlPSDJBcnljL0svS1djVGswcS84QT09

Upcoming Releases and Work Updates

• Aries Agent Test Harness - Test Run Status: https://aries-interop.info
  • Connectivity between AF-Go and ACA-Py based on a did:orb DID achieved.
  • PR (almost...) ready to merge to demonstrate BBS+/JSON-LD credential exchange between AF-GO and ACA-Py.
  • PR (almost...) ready to merge that demonstrates Out-of-Band connection reuse.
• Aries Shared Components
  • Support added to ACA-Py main branch, enabled by `--wallet-type askar`. Uses `aries-askar` for wallet storage, `indy-credx` for Indy Anoncreds support, and `indy-vdr` for ledger communication.
• Aries-CloudAgent-Python
  • Release 0.7.0 published, official release.
    • Release Notes: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python/releases/tag/0.7.0
    • Documentation: https://aries-cloud-agent-python.readthedocs.io/en/0.7.0/
  • Next up: Enabling resolving DIDs to multiple Indy ledgers in parallel – e.g. starting up with an array of genesis files and trying all of them when resolving a ledger object (DID, etc.)
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
  • Working on AIP 2.0, AATH integration, and AcaPy integration.
    • AFGO-AcaPy connectivity now passing in AATH.
      • Including multiple DID method scenario (AFGO writes DIDs to orb and AcaPy writes DIDs to indy and usage of universal resolver).
    • Working on integrating AATH for Issue Credential v2 and Present Proof v2 with JSON-LD.
      • AFGO-AFGO now passing; working on AcaPy-AFGO.
  • Working on selecting Envelope v1 vs v2.
  • Working on WACI-PeX based on AFG (in TrustBloc project).
  • Future RFCs:
    • Redirect-based OOB.
    • Multiple sources for presentations.
• Aries Mobile Agent React Native - Aries Bifold Meetings
  • UI / Code structure update PR pending
  • Discussion to utilize Aries Shared Components
  • @aries-framework/redux-store documentation/consumption work
• Aries-Framework-JavaScript - Framework JS Meetings
  
  • Meetings will be held at Thursday 7:00 AM MST / 3:00 PM CET
  • Split up into multiple packages
    • "@aries-framework/core" - https://www.npmjs.com/package/@aries-framework/core
    • "@aries-framework/node" - https://www.npmjs.com/package/@aries-framework/node
    • "@aries-framework/react-native" - https://www.npmjs.com/package/@aries-framework/react-native
  • Merged
    • Coordinate Mediation - RFC0211 - PR opened
    • Smart auto acceptance of credentials and proofs
    • Discover features protocol
  • Connection-less issuance and proofs
• Aries-Cloudagent-Pico
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav Markovski )
• Aries-Toolbox
• Aries-SDK-Java
• Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
• Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin (Aries MAX) - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobileagent-xamarin
• Ursa

Agenda

• PR Review
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/641 binary object links in credentials
• ForgetMe Protocol (Sam Curren)
  • https://hackmd.io/E0cuK418T0iWZezAHO71Ew
• Indy SDK Android Update - James Ebert
  • https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/issues/2382
• WACI-PEx (Sam Curren)
  • https://github.com/decentralized-identity/waci-presentation-exchange/blob/main/spec/spec.md 
  • Is it real, and should we be paying attention?
  • Who else is planning on it?
• What are the next few issues we can assist within Aries?
  • Governance - 4 different elements
  • ux work - rich chat based interactions
  • import/export
  • in-domain sync
  • connection reuse (check in on status)
  • proving DID ownership (different DID than the one used for the relationship)
  • DID-Login
  • JSON-LD Credentials
  • Web-wallet support (via redirects) - Troy
  • Multi-source credential presentations (multiple wallet backends)
  • Guardianship / power of attorney situations
  • Identity Binding techniques - assurances to issuer of uniqueness (RWOT link)
  • SVG Credential Rendering

Next Week

Future Topics

• Schema interop - how to reuse a 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 

Action items

Recording