Greetings folks
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Welcome to 2018! As the Holidays fade from near term memory, everywhere I look across the Kantara community, I see us activities in pushing ahead with New Year's resoutions, business plans and new initiatives.
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We moved Kantara's first own-brand International Privacy Summit to May 22nd for a variety of reasons, and we will release further details over the coming weeks. That's GDPR enforcement week, so you can be sure it's on the agenda!
We are coalescing around the Kuppinger Cole hosted European Identity & Cloud Conference in Munich for a combined Kantara AGM and European members plenary on Monday May 14th during the day, to give you all enough time to refresh, reset and attend the Blockchain ID Innovation night, and prior to Kantara's own pre-conference workshop the following morning Tuesday 15th to that curtain-raise raises the formal opening of the conference in the afternoon.
We are looking for Kantara member sponsors and a venue in the Munich area. If your organization can help on either of both of these, please Contact Us.
Near term, you'll see fellow Kataraians at the KNOW identity conference in Washington DC March 26 - 28, where on a Kantara panel slated for Monday March 26th 2.40pm comprising members Mary Hodder, Scott Shorter, Tracy Hulver, Andrew Hughes moderated by myself, where we will discuss the topic 'Identity Service Provider Certification: Who cares anyway?', If you're attending please come along and join in on the conversation.
Just coming up in this first full week in February, Kantara will be participating in the TIIME workshop hosted by Kantara's own eGov WG Chair Rainer Hoerbe where we . We get together with our Higher Ed colleagues and interested others, as we work through identity related topics at the bleeding edge and as well as refinements at the operational edge of the community. Later in the month, EEMA - Kantara's most active European liaison - is hosting me in Brussels at its members Fireside, a topic close to us all - the future of identity and trust.
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First and foremost, a warm welcome to Kantara's newest member Trunomi, - known to many of you already - as a fast growing successful company in the personal data space and interested to contribute to and consume Kantara's consent-related artefacts as they are developed and monetized. Elsewhere in the month I caught up with several members and associates at the inaugural meeting of the UK Conservative Party's Science and Technology Forum digital identity working group meeting, and . And both Kantara IRM WG Chair Sal D'Agostino and I were invited onto respective panels in New York and London by the good folks at Fintech start-up Rainmaking.io. Great conversations and great opportunities were to be had, to make folks aware of your highly valued efforts in developing specifications for industry adoption and conformity assesssment schemes for industry Trust Framework operations.
Meanwhile, with the generous support of ID.me for supplying editing resources, Kantara is nearly ready to release the Service Assessment Criteria for the NIST SP 800-63-3 Guidelines for Digital Identity, for identity & credential service providers whose solutions are utilized by relying parties online. Kantara is extending the scope of Kantara's Trust Framework Operations Program with this foundational peice piece of new work. As you browse the new content on that link, please take our Survey regarding your current or planned compliance with Identity Management related standards. Help us to help you!
And on that note, have you completed the Member Survey? Like all Kantara surveys it is short and to the point. We listen to your feedback and act on it, which is why you see Kantara's activities change and remix , from year to year.
As we close in on the end of 2017, Kantara foresees 2018 as a very challenging year for the digital identity and personal data industry on both sides of the Atlantic - the GDPR & PSD2 pertaining to EU residents and changes in the way US federal agencies will procure ditigal identity credential services. It will be very challenging for Kantara too, as pressure is applied by policy makers on its Trust Frameworks services at the same time as industry demand for new projects to fill in the blank canvas in advance of formal standards relentlessly increases. What better way to open the year then, than with Kantara's first hosted conference in London, the International Privacy Summit, January 29th!
But first, it's holidays! Kantara wishes its members, partners and supporters Happy Holidays and a prosperous New Year. Tell us what you would like Kantara to do in 2018 and beyond.
Onwards!
Kind Regards,
Colin
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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.
- Join them here
- Kantara's Consent Receipt v1.1 is nearing the end of has completed its public review .Last call for comments!and the working group are discussion your submitted comments.
@UMAWG has worked through the comments submitted in its second public review period, and is preparing has released the UMA 2.0 for specifications into formal publication. Kantara's UMA protocol is ranked 2nd in Kuppinger Cole's top 10 trends for 2018. And 1st on Kuppinger Cole's list? None other than Kantara's Consent Receipt.
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!
This is a MUST if you are a service provider selling services into the EU - Kantara's first hosted conference in London, the International Privacy Summit, January 29th. Or lock in #IPS18 to watch the action.
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