2021-02-03 Aries Cloud Agent - Python Users Group Community Meeting

Summary:

Planned Topics:

• Preparation for the 0.6.0 release
• W3C Verifiable Credentials in ACA-Py with ZKP and Selective Disclosure

Recording from the call: 

Welcome and Introductions

Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>
• Christos Patsonakis (CERTH) <cpatsonakis@iti.gr>
• Timo Glastra (Animo Solutions) <timo@animo.id>

Announcements

• Primary branch of repo has been renamed to main – update your forks accordingly
• ACA-Py Release 0.6.0 coming soon (see below) – likely this week

Deployments and Work Updates

• BC Gov Team
  • Aries-VCR/OrgBook BC Deployment - starting on an multi-tenant OrgBook Issuer
  • Issuer Kit - VCs for OIDC Issuer Service - Safe Entry BC PoC - VCs for Physical Access Points
  • Aries Agent Test Harness work
    • DID Exchange Test Cases; deprecating 0160 Connections usage
    • Backchannel for Aries Framework Go
  • Breaking up the Indy SDK
    • indy-vdr
    • indy-shared-rs – contribution to Hyperledger
    • aries-askar - storage – contribution to Hyperledger
  • BBS+ support to achieve W3C Standard VCs with ZKP and Selective Disclosure

Agenda

• Recent issues - help wanted 
• Release 0.6.0 – It's BIG
  • Breaking Changes - https://hackmd.io/pWCJ4fnoR_aTPIoBiNBV_g
    • Controllers: New API endpoints, tightened up revocation handling to RFC 441
    • Startup: Removal of auto-creating wallet in "start" mode and the handling of recreating a wallet in "provision" mode
    • Plugin Writers:
      • use of "Profile" vs. "RequestContext" and overall handling of contexts (no longer assume single context)
      • retrieving the "AdminRequestContext" as changed
      • "ProfileSession" needed to inject a the "BaseStorage" or "BaseWallet" interfaces and the "inject" method is no longer async
  • Additions since 0.5.6 (2020.10.19) – 120 merged PRs ago.
    • Issue Credential V2 (RFC 0453) – Draft 
    • Mediator – with docs
    • Multi-tenancy – with docs
    • OOB – complete, unit tests almost there
    • DID Exchange and common connection record
    • Flexible web hooks – with demo for multi-tenancy use case
    • Indy Best Practices for Proof Request/Proof (RFC 441)
    • Underlying changes to support Indy/Aries Shared Library deployments
    • Unit tests updates (still ~99% coverage)
    • Alice/Faber Demo updates to include all new features
  • Current work, but not included
    • Persistent Queue - plan for completion of first cut
    • Sign Transaction Protocol
    • Shared Components (branch exists, but won't be in main or 0.6.0)
• W3C Verifiable Credential project: https://hackmd.io/@animo/acapy-bbs-2
• Repolinter - Hyperledger requirement
• Other Discussion
  • SICPA/Indicio DID Resolver - Outline of plans, feature/did-resolver branch, GitHub project
• Indy DID Method meetings and links: Indy DID Method Specification

Next Meeting

• Requests?

Future Topics

• Documentation needs
• FAQ materials

Action items