2026-01-06 - ACA-Py Users Group Community Meeting

Summary:

Release planning and update on recent PRs and Issues
Open Discussion

Call Time: 8:00 Pacific / 16:00 Central Europe

Zoom Link:

https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/96618113800?password=3fb31a65-606d-4765-8f89-ce7c857dc049

Call Recording:

https://zoom.us/rec/share/LySYYKM_o7bzcst4A07WiJ3bACarqaz2PwOGRIKiEicUEnjmm6cKeLEzgnoflg07.PfiikTjb4aN52rxL

Welcome, Introductions and Announcements

Announcements:

AnonCreds has a new GitHub organization – https://github.com/anoncreds – outside of the “hyperledger” github org
Indy has a new GitHub organization – https://github.com/hyperledger-indy – outside of the “hyperledger” github org
OWF Virtual Ecosystem Summit – being rescheduled! Stay tuned
OWF TAC: This week, Ruth Puente from the OWF/GDC will join the TAC to discuss how the OWF engages global governments. Weds Jan 7, 2026 at 7amPT / 10amET / 4pmCET. Zoom room is here: LFX Meetings

Documentation:

ACA-Py documentation: https://aca-py.org, https://deepwiki.com/openwallet-foundation/acapy
ACA-Py Plugins: https://plugins.aca-py.org

Agenda

Review of PRs and Issues:
- Removing Indy from the core – doable? Proposal in PR 3987
- Creating an issuing abstraction layer that hides credential format and exchange protocol from the issuer business logic layer
  - E.g. AnonCreds/DIDComm, SD-JWT/OpenID4VCI, mDoc/OpenID4VCI, mDoc/ISOXXXX
  - Issuer is configured to use the supported implementations.
    - knows (via configuration) what it is issuing
    - knows the JSON of the credential to be issued – the business attributes in the expected format
      - e.g. no “universal format” and mapping to each
  - Operations:
    - Setup
    - Connect
    - Issue
    - Revoke
  - Division of responsibility – who handles keys, signing operations, key rotations, etc.
  - Transitions
    - Two active setups – current being issued, future to be issued
    - Issue in one format at any one time – cut off from current format to future format
    - Revocation continues in format of issued credential
  - Architecture:
    - A single component embeds the abstraction layer and the format/protocol implementations
      - Plugins and common libraries to not require re-implementations
    - An abstraction layer and separate format/protocol services – microservice architecture
Open Discussion
- Wallet Interop SIG
  - Want to present? Sign up here: Wallet Interoperability SIG Project Signup
  - Dec 22nd - Ana and Timo from Animo, along with Ezer from Docusign joined us to discuss “EUDI Wallet &
    Docusign integration”. Demo video, deck slides and video can be found here: 2025-12-22 Wallet Interop SIG
- OWF TAC: This week, Ruth Puente from the OWF/GDC will join the TAC to discuss how the OWF engages global governments. Weds Jan 7, 2026 at 7amPT / 10amET / 4pmCET. Zoom room is here: LFX Meetings
- VCX - next meeting is Tues/Weds Jan 6/7 at 3pmPT / 6pmET / Midnight CET - zoom info is here: LFX Meetings
- Bifold - our next meeting is next week
- Credo - our next meeting is next week
- ACA-Py NEWS? The OWF Newsletter goes out this week. If there is ACA-Py news, please send a note to community-architects@openwallet.foundation

Important Links:

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/yjvGPd5FCU (Click Accept Invite, check out the #aca-py channel)

Community Calendar: https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/openwalletfoundation