2021-09-01-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Summary

• Time Change
• Mental Model of VCs

Date: 01 Sep 2021 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 18H Moscow)

Note the time change!

Attendees

• Sam Curren(Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
• Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>

Announcements

• IIW (online) Oct 12-14

Upcoming Releases and Work Updates

• Aries Agent Test Harness - Test Run Status: https://aries-interop.info
• Aries Shared Components
  • New minor releases 
  • 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 0.7.1 published, official release.
    • Release Notes: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python/releases/tag/0.7.1
    • Documentation: https://aries-cloud-agent-python.readthedocs.io/en/0.7.1
  • Still in progress: 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
  • Indy wallet overhaul:
    • Config is less indy specific
    • Lot of methods moved to IndyLedgerService and IndyStorageService in preparation for shared libraries and browser wallet
  • Update to new indy-sdk-react-native (Hyperleger owned version of rn-indy-sdk)
• 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

• Timeslot Change and Meeting format
  • What did we miss updating?
• W3C CCG - Mental Model of what a VC is. 
  • What a verifier knows about the holder when they receive a proof.
  • Issuer A said X, or Issuer A said X to Holder.

Next Week

Future Topics

Action items

Recording