2022-04-14 Aries Framework JS Meeting notes

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Attendees

• Timo Glastra <timo@animo.id>
• Philippe Foucault (Gouvernement du Québec) <philippe.foucault@mcn.gouv.qc.ca>
• Jason Leach <jason.leach@fullboar.ca>
• James Ebert <james.ebert@indicio.tech>

Status updates

• Aries Bifold (Aries Bifold User Group Meetings)
• Aries Call
• Hyperledger moved to Discord
  • Replaces rocket.chat 
  • https://discord.gg/N84Eg4z3

Agenda

• Record the meeting
• Merging OOB / DIDExchange
  • What's left? Who wants to help?
    • Refactoring on `did:key` - Jakub Koci
      • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript/pull/700 
    • How to convert numalgo 2 did document to did - Jakub Koci
      • Waiting on https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/728 to be resolved
      • If we change the algorithm, previous dids don't match anymore
    • Public api - James Ebert
      • passing id instead of record
      • add methods to manage oob records
    • DIDExchange record state and Connection record state - Jakub Koci
    • Handshake reuse - James Ebert
      • has done some work on handshake reuse, will create PR against oob branch
      • Connecting with public did
    • Migration scripts - Timo Glastra
• iOS Simulator issues (Akiff Manji)
  • Large blockers/challenges towards building the indysdk with the iOS simulator support
  • The indy shared libraries react native wrappers will support iOS simulators
  • It will be more effective to use the indy shared libraries to unblock this issue
• Question Answer Protocol (James Ebert)
  • Will be added to core
• AMA
• How to handle the growing size of dependencies
  • Selectively add dependencies (more lean core)?
    • Slim agent by default.
    • No credential formats supported by default
      • Should be added using JSON-LD / Indy plugins
    • No storage implementation
      • should be added using Askar or Indy SDK
    • Can help with multi-platform deployments
    • Worry about having a gazillion afj packages
  • JSON-LD vs Indy
    • BBS vs Ed25519
  • Shared components vs Indy SDK
    • Indy sdk types vs shared library types conflicts?

Meeting Notes

Future topics

• DIDComm v2 support
• React Native testing
• Support for Deno
• Monorepo dependencies
  • TypeScript types

Meeting recording: