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In further support of Kantara's Trust Framework Operations program and its NIST 800-63-3 Class of Approval, the US federal agency OMB published its much awaited policy on identity credential and access management. It lays out the federal government's expectations of agencies in this regard and the role of various stakeholders, with a strong emphasis on 63-3. As the Leadership Council chair observed, our 800-63-3 Class of Approval under the Identity Assurance Framework tangibly demonstrates Kantara's alignment - that *this* is the scarce resource that only Kantara can offer. And the new memo makes it far easier to make the connection to a purchasing department requirement- both are the magic ingredients to selling approvals. The month did not end there for the Identity Assurance working group as it was busy providing comments back to DIACC on its Pan-Canadian Trust Framework.
Conference-wise, May began where April left off, finding us at the Connect:ID conference in Washington DC which I talked about in last month's Director's Corner where I presented 'Build Customer Confidence with Assurance Trust Marks' and making the case for the IDESG logo to be re-crafted as a consumer Trust Mark. It's not only the Mark that is getting some interest however. There is some interest from another non-profit entity in leveraging the features and functionality of the self attesting Registry that was used for service providers self attesting conformance to the IDentity Ecosystem Framework. It's early days and will be a slow burn, but nonetheless promising for those artifacts safely located in the Kantara Educational Foundation..
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Now we are preparing June's events too, starting with our newest liaison partner CARIN Alliance's Summit in DC that I am speaking at, Identity North in Toronto where Leadership Council Chair Andrew hughes will be leading essions in Day 2 the unconference, then at the end of this week Think Digital Identity in the UK, followed by Identity Week in the UK next week, followed by EEMA in the UK and Whitehall Media IDM in the UK the week after and then it's the last week of June and we are back in Washington DC for Identiverse. I am 'circling the wagons' right now for our Masterclass which features, the Consent and Information sharing work group's consent receipt demo, ID.me's Blake Hall and LifeMed IDAllclearID's Catherine Schulten talking about the lastest policy releases positively impacting Kantara's assurance program, the User Manager Access (UMA) working group having presentations from MIT's Thomas Hardjono, Tim Reiniger together with Canadian UMA deployer Identos's Mike Cook., plus a cameo appearance from Ian Glazer on ID Pro. Give these folks your full support please.
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- the Consent & Information Sharing WG (CISWG) is gathering contributions for the first draft of Consent Receipt v2.0 and collaborating with members on the Consent Receipt Generator and developing the demo with its requisite privacy dashboard. It is also gathering contributions on the DIACC's (the Digital Identification and Authentication Council of Canada) document out related to Notice and Consent https://diacc.ca/2019/04/03/notice-consent-overview-conformance-discussion-drafts/ as a component of the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework to set a baseline of public and private sector interoperability of identity services and solutions. If you want to contribute you must join the CIS working group (no charge)
- the UMA WG is maturing its business - legal framework model and preparing presentations for Identiverse as well as the 105th IETF meeting in Canada. Interoperability testing is increasingly needed so if you can help, please let us know.
- the Identity Assurance Work Group (IAWG) has released a refreshed Overview and Glossary for the Identity Assurance Framework (IAF) for public review and comment and invites them all.
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