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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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I kicked off September's conference round in Seattle, where Kantara leads were participating in a two-day industry event added onto the little known International Identity Summit (IIS) - an invitation-only event for governments to discuss digital identity challenges and opportunities behind closed doors. With several agencies from governments around the world in as members of Kantara and most of them attending both the IIS and the industry days, it was a great opportunity to catch up. The first day saw us split into groups to brainstorm selected digital identity challenges, various challenges around counter-fraud and anomaly detection, while on the second day we were treated to updates from both government and industry, with Kantara members Treasury Board Secretariat, 1Kosmos, and KIPI grant fund recipient Steve Wilson of Lockstep, take to the podium and present their latest and greatest. It was a pleasure to support them, and to catch up with sponsors for Day 1 and our KIPI grant funders, DHS S&TScience & Technology Directorate, as well as sponsors for Day 2, Liaison partner DIACC and the University of Washington. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Our first event conference, hosted by our friends MyData2018, was held just last week in Helsinki. The Kantara community was well represented as members Consentua, digi.me, Open Consent Group, Trunomi and Ubisecure demonstrated an interoperability use case for the Kantara Consent Receipt. These, along with other members such as Datafund, iWelcome, UNLOQ, and non-participants such as MyLifeDigital have all deployed Kantara’s Consent Receipt in a variety of ways inside their solution offerings. Kantara, in a conference containing more theory than practice, showed the personal data community with the interop demo, Adrian Gropper’s demo of HIE of One with UMA and my own presentation on the many ways in which Kantara delivers on the 6 MyData principles that, ‘while others talk, we do’.
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In the US, Kantara's Assurance Review Board, the executive sub committee of the main Board governing the Trust Framework Operations and Assurance programme, recommended to Kantara’s Board that ID.me be granted a Trust Mark as the first Credential Service Provider that conformed to NIST SP 800-63-3 Identity Assurance at IAL2 & AAL2. The extensive press coverage (read the combined press release here) that the grant of Trust Mark received, has started a wave as several additional providers (some of which you can see here) joining the queue for approval and grant of Trust Mark through Kantara’s Trust Framework Operations Programme. The transition of IDESG's assets into the newly established 501c3 entity (the Kantara Initiative Educational Foundation Inc) was completed in July and August. This was a period of consolidation with the IDEF WG beginning to take shape with further work drafting its charter. Kantara has control of IDESG's website and wiki and of course the IDEF Registry in its new V2 guise as well as the IDEF Trust Mark re-styled for Kantara's stable of schemes.
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