2021-07-21 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting

Summary:

Planned Topics:

• ACA-Py Release 0.7.0
• Accessing Multiple Indy Ledgers
• AMA (as time permits)

Recording from the call: 

Welcome and Introductions

Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>
• Stephen Curran Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>

Announcements

Deployments and Work Updates

• BC Gov Team
  • Aries-VCR/OrgBook BC Deployment
    • In progress: a multi-tenant OrgBook Issuer
  • Issuer Kit - VCs for OIDC Issuer Service - Safe Entry BC PoC - VCs for Physical Access Points
  • Verification Tutorial – multi-purpose verifier aimed at the general population receiving their first verifiable credential
  • Aries Agent Test Harness work - Results page: https://aries-interop.info
  • BPA - Business Partner Agent for B2B use of VCs
  • AIP 2.0
  • Aries Shared Components – indy-vdr, indy-shared-rs and aries-askar

Agenda

• ACA-Py 0.7.0 Release
  • Release completed
    • 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/
  • Post release PRs – concerns?:
    • 1324 - Handle unpadded protected header in PackWireFormat::get_recipient_keys 
    • 1325 - fix: error on deserializing conn record with protocol
• Milestone: Connection established with Aries Framework Go using a did:orb DID
• Supporting connecting to multiple Indy ledgers - Shaanjot Gill
• Updates needed:
  • Handling authoring/endorsement of Indy transactions without bugging the author controller
    • But it's OK (and necessary) to bug the endorser controller
  • Support for multiple presentations, multiple issuances.
  • AIP 2.0 Features
    • --version 2.0 flag to enable "breaking changes" features/completed community updates
    • RFC 0557 Discover Features V2 – Added AIP 2.0 features / potentially dynamic based on loaded modules
    • RFC 0519 Goal Codes in specific protocols (RFC 0453/0454 - Credential Exchange V2), OOB, DID Exchange
      • Generalized support?
    • RFC 0627 Static Peer DID Support
    • RFC 0183 Revocation Notification – flag on API to notify user (+ connection_id?)
    • RFC 0587 Encryption Envelope V2
    • Review and update as needed all AIP 1.0 RFCs – to be added: a diff link for each "updated" RF
• Questions – AMA

Next Meeting

Future Topics

• Queues – Daniel Bluhm
  • Actions:
    • Daniel Bluhmto do a hackmd doc design to meet mediator-centric requirements, ideally with a narrative on push notification handling
    • Andrew Whiteheadto do a hackmd doc design to meet scalability requirements - https://hackmd.io/OF5o0idQTwi_T_3eWkDvmw
    • Ideally, incorporated into the above, but if not, a third design doc, covering the use of the event bus with the outbound queuing
• Double Signature with eIDAS?
  • Background: https://www.slideshare.net/FIDOAlliance/introduction-to-fido-and-eidas-services
  • SICPA - For the eSSIF program, with json-ld credential we are adding double signature, the normal + eIDAS
    
    • Matteo Marangoni
  • Double signature in ACA-Py with pluggable mechanism, and implementation for eIDAS
• Performance with Shared Components enabled (Aries Askar et al.)

Action items