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

Summary:

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: https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/94569749258?password=68170ae3-3074-45fb-9b2e-4c479ed7d8d7

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: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1esWuhFlgVWvXpujHw4I2H_JN2NwLq0tK1SEe14b0ktQ/edit?tab=t.0

    • 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: https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/94569749258?password=68170ae3-3074-45fb-9b2e-4c479ed7d8d7

  • VCX - next meeting is Tues/Weds Jan 6/7 at 3pmPT / 6pmET / Midnight CET - zoom info is here: https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/93867584639?password=dfede7ce-2ddc-4b87-84a5-3bcb483e88a0

  • 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

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