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This is the running update from the Executive Director. Have questions or comments? Suggest some added information or edits? Contact ED Colin at kantarainitiative dot org.
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October continued the good news that September and October delivered Kantara. It's more the norm in recent months. Is it that our 10th anniversary awareness galvanized longstanding intent into definitive action? Maybe. Is it that the OMB's M-19-17 circular to US federal agencies in which conformance to NIST 800-63-3 is reinforced? Quite possibly. It's well known in federal circles that self attestation is not given much credence, and Kantara being well known as the only 3rd party assessor and approver of a transparent community developed 63-3 scheme and class of approval. Whatever it is, it is seeing Kantara staff very very busy with prospective member enquiries and proposals and requests for Kantara engagement from industry - both federal and state in the public sector along with private sector too. I do hope it won't be too long before we can share those with you.
The month began with IIW 29 in Mountain View with great demos of on EduGAIN, Gluu Gateway and Transmute ID with Kantara UMA and Kantara Consent Receipt from Kantara members GEANT, Gluu and Transmute Industries respectively. we gather in San Francisco for Kantara's North American member's plenary on Thursday morning followed by the Board's F2F meeting setting out the plans for the coming year with new and exciting developments at Board level pending.There great presentations from Kantara work group participants @gffletch with his legendary UMA 101 class and and @justin_richer on OAuth xyz that takes the profiling work done to create OpenID Connect and Kantara UMA together with other learnings, to work towards an OAuth 3.0. Fincity's Erik Lamb and I attempted to a 'Consent Receipt for Financial Services' session that suffered from projector challenges. Nonetheless all IIW materials - Kantara related and others are here.
I had to cut short my attendance at IIW 29 for the Board's F2F meeting in ForgeRock's offices in downtown San Francisco with a near full attendance in person and remote. It was an intense but fulfilling meeting as key decisions were taken on Kantara's 2020 strategic direction that were primed for the event. You'll see some structural changes coming in the form of all-member ballots that will pave the way for this next exciting phase of Kantara's development as it reinforces its mantra 'nurture, develop, operate' in its open and inclusive community participation format. Thank you all for supporting our mission, ethics, ethos and values.
The following week it's After a long flight via Taipei, I arrived in Singapore for the IDENTITY WEEK ASIA , conference on October 8-9th 2019 at Suntec Convention Centre, Singapore where I have a huge few days as . As I mentioned last month the conference organisers have made the very most of my offer to help out/fill gaps. 
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The week after LC Chair Andrew Hughes and I are in Paris for the ISO /IEC JTC 1/SC 27/ Working Group 5 (Identity Management & Privacy) meetings where we present results of the Study Periods for Consent Receipts and Records as well as Identity Proofing and Verification that we are leading through Kantara's Category C Liaison.
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Two weeks later it's the first week of November and EEMA's legendary ISSE conference in Brussels, @Ubisecure 's @osantolalla will demo the Consent Receipt and Ruth Puente who will present the 2nd call for NGI_Trust grant funding. If you haven't attended before, you won't get a better chance than this; From Sept 30th Kantara members enter code MEFSE for 35% off full ticket price €400 (nett €250 + VAT).
And that's not all. There is the emerging premier government focussed identity conference coming up in December but I will leave those till next month to treat you with.
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