Greetings folks
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Thank you so much sponsors Forgerock and Saviynt! Without your generous support we could not have done it.
September also saw Kantara's public announcment of its intent to restructure the membership dues for 2018 and, like everything we do in Kantara, we sought and received comments from members which has seen it much improved. Some dues categories actually reduce in price while others increase, but the overall effect is to make it easier for smaller organizations to support and be supported by Kantara, and for larger organzations to derive brand association and thought leadership through the Kantara work they sponsor.
Meanwhile, 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. 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 to members iWelcome and Digi.me for your directed funds to bring this most important work forward.
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- There is one, just one remaining sponsorship package left for Kantara's exclusive triple event pre-conference workshop on the Consumer Identity World Tour 2017. Contact us if you want that spot in 3 international locations to be your brand, beside two other highly respected brands in our industry.
- You can always find us online: https://twitter.com/KantaraNews and https://twitter.com/UMAWG and https://twitter.com/KantaraCISWG.
- Want to start a Kantara local chapter in your town? We are happy to help. Just Contact us.
Program, Work Group and Discussion Group Updates:
- You can always keep up with the latest news from the Work Group and Discussion Groups directly off the Leadership Council's Blog.The
- Federated Interoperability, UMA and Consent & Information Sharing Work Groups are pounding their way through the public feedback on their respective specifications following their public review periods. Come the Fall, these should be released and available for you to Great work from the folks in the IRM working group in getting their 'Refining the Principles of Identity Relationship Management' done and published in time for the Consumer Identity World Tour 2017 where its relevance is just so central.
- Hats off to the Blockchain Smart Contracts Discussion Group for the publication of its long awaited report. In the hype that currently surrounds Blockchain the 'level headedness' of this report is a welcome respite and change.
- See all of our Specifications, Recommendations and Reports here and awaiting your download from our Reports and Recommendations web repository.
- As always, if you have a query or question, staff are only too willing to assist. Contact them via email.
Events: See them here!
- Many Europe based Kantarians are heading to Tallinn and Helsinki to join community friends at MyData. It promises to be a great conference with the first ever MyData Declaration ready to be signed by you and others that vow to be good actors when managing others' personal data.
- North American based Kantarians should be booking their flights to Seattle European based Kantarians should be heading to Paris for Consumer Identity World '17 starting September 11th especially to attend the first of the new conference season's Kantara legendary pre-conference workshops! 'CIAM' is the new domain in the digital identity space and Kantara has exclusive rights to this event series that moves on to Paris and then Singapore after Seattle. Join for November 27th, and if you are in the APAC region, see us in Singapore at the awesome Marina Bay Sands hotel on December 12th. Join us there, save money! Kantara has discounted pass codes available for both these September events
