Greetings folks
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November was a busy conference month that started for me in Brussels with Kanatara's European-based liaison partner EEMA with its annual ISSE conference. Our next gig is the conference and back to Brussels again the following week to keynote at the IAM Belgium conference. Kantara's very well attended pre-conference workshop to curtain-raise Kuppinger Cole's Consumer Identity World Tour 2017 is in Paris, 27th November. This promises to be a great event, with both speakers and registrations bulging. We have such great teamwork amongst our European members and they certainly have not let us down in this instance. in Paris, followed the week after where we were blessed with nearly a full slate of Working Group reps that updated attendees on activities. Thank you Mark Lizar from OCG, Thorten Niebuhr from Wedacon, Corne van Rooij from iWelcome, Justin Richer from Bespoke Engineering, Martin Sandren from Nixu, Keith Uber from Ubisecure, plus our member and liaison speakers, Katryna Dow from Meeco, Allan Foster from Forgerock and Joni Brennan from DIACC. Thanks also to Mike Acuri from Facebook who provided us an early insight into Facebook's Account Recovery application. And we finished a great day with well earned refreshments in a bar bistro close by. Thanks once again to sponsors Forgerock and Saviynt!
We used the event to formally announce the Consent Management Systems Best Practice work group, designed to draw in service providers in the space and converge their Best Practice, so if your organization is in this space, please look out for the announcement of the opening of this work group. Thank you members iWelcome and Digi.me for your directed funds to bring this most important work forward. As a general trend we are seeing interest in this group arise our of interest in Consent Receipt that topped our downloads again this month
Meanwhile, with the generous support of ID.me for supplying editing resources, work continues apace on the NIST SP 800-63-3 Service Assessment Criteria for identity & credential service providers whose solutions are utilized by relying parties online. Consent Receipt topped our downloads this month, beating our regular winner, , is nearing release for public review. There are precious few organizations planning to offer 3rd party confomity assessment services. the Identity Assurance Framework document suite that underpins Kantara's Trust Framework Operations Program. As you browse the new content on that link, please take our Survey regarding your current or planned compliance with Identity Management related standards. Help us to help you!And on the Personal Data side of the house, the V1.1 of the Consent Receipt is near final, while accompanying GDPR-related new work items are being prepped and planned for announcement. The first of those will be the Consent Management Systems Best Practice work group, designed to draw in service providers in the space and converge their Best Practice, so if your organization is in this space, please look out for the announcement of the opening of this work group. Thank you members iWelcome and Digi.me for your directed funds to bring this most important work forward.
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There is one remaining sponsorship package left for Kantara's exclusive triple event pre-conference workshop on the Consumer Identity World Tour 2017 as the circus heads to Singapore next month. Contact us if you want that spot for $4,999 beside Forgerock.
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The Blockchain Smart Contracts Discussion Group's report has created high interest and lots of downloads. Here's what one expert (who shall remain nameless) said; "It was a pleasure to read, both well written and informative. (I’ve been reading a lot of BAD blockchain papers and articles lately ;-) ). The discussion of Smart Contracts is the best I’ve read. I’m going to pass it around to try to counter all the crazy Smart Contracts will solve all our problems talk going around the [entity redacted ] right now".
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