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This is the running update from the Executive Director. Have questions or comments? Suggest some added information or edits? Contact Colin at kantarainitiative dot org.
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November was less intense for your Executive Director, but nonetheless, busy and exciting as the 2020 strategic and tactical plans for your Kantara take real shape and form. While 2019 saw us celebrate Kantara's 10 years of accomplishments in program expansion and specification development & 3rd party conformity assessed assurance - 'ethics and conformance Trust Marked' is how strapline our presentations - Kantara 2020 portends to be a game-changing year, as your organization breaks new ground in our industry delivering a value proposition second to none. Of course it's only going to be that for organizations and individual contributors that seize the opportunities and ride the waves. Pay attention if you are in 'passive monitoring Kantara mode' on a working group or in a holding pattern for maybe, might be, could be membership and program participation. 2020 is the year to get off the fence, join your industry association and 'just do it'.
The first week of November saw Kantara month began with IIW 29 in Mountain View with great demos on EduGAIN, Gluu Gateway and Transmute ID with Kantara UMA and Kantara Consent Receipt from members GEANT, Gluu and Transmute Industries respectively. There were great presentations from Kantara work group participants @gffletch with his legendary UMA 101 class (so gratifying to see a full room of interested folks not seen before) 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 to attend the Board's F2F meeting in Board Member ForgeRock's offices in downtown San Francisco with a near full attendance in person and remote. It was an intense but fulfilling meeting where key decisions were taken on Kantara's 2020 strategic direction. 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 our mantra 'nurture, develop, operate' in its open and inclusive community participation format. Thank you all for supporting our mission, ethics, ethos and values.
After a long flight via Taipei, I arrived in Singapore for the IDENTITY WEEK ASIA conference on October 8-9th 2019. As I mentioned last month, the conference organisers have made the very most of my offer to help out/fill gaps. It was very valuable with several follow ups from AsiaPac organizations interested in Kantara, one in particular looking at membership level+ engagement.
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