2021-06-23 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting

Summary:

Planned Topics:

• Status Check: ACA-Py Release 0.7.0
• Performance Issue Update – Public DID Handling
• DIF Presentation Exchange in ACA-Py
• Multi-Tenant Experience: OrgBook Issuer Agency
• AMA (as time permits)

Recording from the call: <To Be Added>

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
  • Vaccination/Test Result Verifiable Credential Issuer Service
  • Aries Agent Test Harness work - Results page: https://aries-interop.info
    • DID Exchange Test Cases; deprecating 0160 Connections usage
    • Backchannel for Aries Framework Go
  • BBS+ support to achieve W3C Standard VCs with ZKP and Selective Disclosure
    • Including Presentation Exchange
  • BPA - Business Partner Agent for B2B use of VCs
  • did:indy, AIP 2.0

Agenda

• Status Update – ACA-Py 0.7.0 Release – Andrew Whitehead
  • 0.7.0RC1 tag Real Soon Now
    • PE Merged, lots of testing and tweaking going on.
    • Shared components to be merged
    • Alice/Faber Demo
• Performance issue addressed – redundant Public DID Queries – Andrew Whitehead
• DIF Presentation Exchange in ACA-Py – Shaanjot Gill
• Multi-Tenancy Example: OrgBook Issuer Agency – Akiff Manji
• Questions – AMA:

Next Meeting

• 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 scalabilty 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

Future Topics

• 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.)
• 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

Action items