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At this stage of the AATH Enhancement Project, two factors helped define its broad content:

  • The gap between AIP 2.0 constituent RFCs and the current implementation of the AATH tests
  • Requirements from Interac with respect to AIP 2.0

The new Hyperledger Aries Framework JavaScript release (0.2.0) contains some incredible steps forward. Especially in our goal to make the framework AIP 2.0 compliant. AIP 2.0 compliance will not only ensure the framework supports the latest standards and protocols, but it will also greatly increase interoperability and make it more useful outside of the Hyperledger Indy ecosystem.

“This approval is further evidence that Hyperledger Aries is a breakout success for the Hyperledger community,” said Brian Behlendorf, General Manager for Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. “Convergence on common libraries for the exchange of credentials will help speed the development of urgently-needed solutions and systems, ranging from education to finance to the fight against the pandemic. Aries is key to that convergence.”

The TSC commended the Aries project during the meeting for the projects highly diverse contributors. Achieving a high number of organizations contributing to a project at Hyperledger is often a challenge. Congratulations are due to those participating in and supporting the Aries Project.

There are three projects under the Hyperledger umbrella related to digital identity. Hyperledger Indy, Aries, and Ursa. [...] describe their purpose and how theyre related to each other.

Aries \ Indy \ AnonCreds the dialogue continues

Standards such as OIDC and mDL are all now in dialogue with W3C, AnonCreds, Aries, etc. Mobile is a predominant technology, just like the way laptops were once upon a time. To reduce consumer friction and drive adoption, convergence of all these different technologies is required inside a mobile environment

While no technology runs perfectly on every device, a signal strength of Aries, AnonCreds, and Indy is that they work on the vast majority of current devices and systems, including $35 smart phones and low powered IOT/embedded devices. They represent the most inclusive way into this technology, which is an important factor in their popularity.

The Hyperledger Mentorship Program is a structured hands-on learning opportunity for new developers who may otherwise lack the opportunity to gain exposure to Hyperledger open source development and entry to the technical community.

Hyperledger Aries Aries Bifold  Aries-Framework-Javascript React Native

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XKrgnUUF7nZI-bOqWMKijKZHWThsIjFkVkfPIVy3gkY/edit?usp=sharing

Repo: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native

User Group Meetings: https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/ARIES/Aries+Bifold+User+Group+Meetings

Rocketchat: https://chat.hyperledger.org/channel/aries-bifold

Aries-Framework-Javascript: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript

rn-indy-sdk: https://github.com/AbsaOSS/rn-indy-sdk

Discussion on the following topics:

  • Face recognition capabilities and discussion
  • Discussion of project goals
  • Brief demo of current state
  • Questions on Ionic vs React Native
  • React Native is more broadly adopted
  • Need to start somewhere
  • Does Aries Bifold plan to support BBS+? Yes, planning on utilizing Aries Askar and surrounding components to enable these capabilities.
  • What is the MVP of Aries Bifold?
  • Connections
  • Coordinate-mediation protocol support
  • Credential Exchange
  • Revocation
  • Aries Bifold interoperability
  • AIP 1.0 and AIP 2.0 support
  • Aries Agent Test Harness capabilities
  • Componentization of Aries Bifold
  • Allows the inclusion of the project in existing apps.
  • Helps with separation of concerns.
  • Use of React Redux
  • Packaging and monorepos.
  • [...]

Karim Stekelenburg: https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-tscodegen

Using the self-sovereign identity solution Hyperledger Aries, almost everything works peer to peer between the license issuer and the pilot and between the pilot and the verifier.

  • Trinsic donates did-key.rs to I&D WG

    DID:Key, originally specified in the W3C Credentials Community Group (CCG), is a DID “pseudo-method” that allows static, pre-existing, and/or pre-published public keys to function like traditional DIDs — they can be queried, stored, issued against, and resolved to return valid DID documents.

  • DIDKit v0.1 is Live.

    Most other options are subtly locked to a specific blockchain and its particularities, which a self-sovereign identity (SSI) novice is unlikely to notice until months into a project based on it. A few open-source libraries exist to sidestep this infrastructural lock-in, but these are more like primitives for assembling an SSI toolkit than ready-to-go, developer-friendly libraries. DIDKit, on the other hand, is ready to start processing real-world VCs with non-repudiable signatures right out the box.

  • Indicio.Tech releases Aries Mediator Agent

    The Indicio Mediator Agent is the companys latest contribution to Aries Cloud Agent Python (ACA-Py) and the Aries Toolbox. Following RFC 0211: Mediator Coordination, Indicio built on the work of the open-source community to make mediation interoperable and vendor agnostic. This expands the opportunities for mobile wallet implementations. [...] Indicio.tech is committed to becoming a resource-hub for decentralized identity, providing enterprise-grade open source tools to its clients and to the community. This includes the Private Networks build service, the Indicio TestNet, and a variety of customizable training programs.