Hello everyone
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.
...
February enabled Kantara's Assurance program to show the results of the weeks of intense activity in the Assurance Review Board with 2 major announcements. The first was Experian's CrossCore Platform service Approved under Kantara's “NIST 800-63 rev.3” Class of Approval, gaining the coveted Kantara Trust Mark for NIST 800-63 rev.3-conformant services......................In Europe, much of January was taken up with adding the final touches to The second was Excelsior Security Solutions, that became an Kantara Accredited Assessorin the last week of February following a recommendation by the Assurance Review Board and Kantara's main Board approval.
February 1st heralded the call for proposals officially open for Kantara Initiative Europe's 2019 European Union H2020 grant funded NGI_Trust project with other consortia members GEANT, Fraunhofer, Tecnalia, EFIS and EDN. This first call opened February 1st and The call closes April 30th and has received strong interest already with nearly two months remaining. Regardless of whether you are a European based individual, research institute, start-up or mature company that is building solutions for the Next Generation Internet, we need your help to make those solutions humancentric by developing them to be both scalable as well as privacy and trust enhancing. It doesn't end there however. During January, Kantara Europe has been working with two other consortia to prepare bids for further grant H2020 funding. I'll keep you posted on our progress.Our two other bids with a different mix of consortia are looking good! I hope to update you on our progress in due course. While on the subject of R&D, we were looking forward to seeing our two star performers in the KIPI R&D program - Lockstep's MDAV certificate capsules project re-branded as ValidIDy and the DHS signed off Phase 3 of Exponent's MOB4PACS project using smartphones as PIV cards with NFC and BLE - pitch their solutions at the DHS S&T Cyber Security & Innovation Showcase in Washington DC January 8-11th. Regrettably the Federal Government Shutdown put an end to that, but the good news is that it has been rescheduled for March 18-20th. Since the postponement notice came too late for international participants to change travel plans, I came to DC anyway and had hugely valuable discussions with our many friends and supporters in that city. You know who are - so thank you!
Things haven't been quiet on the Trust Framework and Assurance program either! A second organization's solution was approved under Kantara's 800-63-3 scheme. Others are working through the process while still others are giving the idea consideration. An interesting dynamic that can play out (and did so this month) is when the public sector steps back (in this case the furlough through much of December and January and the TFS part of the GSA FICAM program increasingly moribund), the private sector steps up and gets on with it. We have also had enquiries from two organizations interested in bringing their schemes to Kantara to operate. I'll keep you up to date as they progress.
Of the work groups, the Consent & Information Sharing and UMA groups continued to attract the most attention as they plan their consent receipt interoperability demo and submission to IETF respectively. The Identity Assurance Work Group is building its call attendances back up as the the cycle of document revisions sets the baseline for additional work in 2019. The short life ID Proofing and Verification Discussion Group, which has enjoyed high call attendance, has a really strong set of use cases with which to report back to the Study Period on the topic at ISO SC27 Working Group 5 in Tel Aviv in April. If you hurry there's still time to get yours in.
We have been busy getting Kantara community discounts and planning our participation at Conferences and Events too. Of course our participation is your participation. A big shout-out of thanks to those members who submitted Kantara related proposals to TIIME in Vienna, KNOW in Las Vegas, the final phase which sees this fantastic technology ready itself for commercialization.
On the community side of the house, Consent & Information Sharing is working towards the revision of its Consent Receipt real world use case demo and its respective Consent Receipt Generator. Meanwhile the UMA WG is in advanced preparations to present UMA v2.0 to the 104th IETF meeting in Prague in April to ready it for a standards track contribution. The Identity Assurance Work Group is working hard on preparing comments on the Pan Canadian Trust Framework whose Overview is out for public review as the ID Proofing and Verification Discussion Group assembles its strong set of use cases into a report to ISO SC27 Working Group 5 later in March in time for the Study Period's findings in Tel Aviv in April. Kantara's liaison with Working Group 5 is seeing increased activity as the international standards drafts covering identity and privacy reach a more developed and mature stage in their development.
As we prepare the Privacy session for our friends ID Pro in their education sessions at KNOW Identity in Las Vegas later in March (there's still time to grab a ticket with the Kantara discount code), we are also setting the agenda for the European Identity Conference in Munich and Idenitiverse in Washington DC in June, all of which are taking place in these coming months. If you are attending the EIC in Munich in May, please make sure you arrive a day early and and register here for the Kantara Members Plenary on on Monday May 13th, the day before the Kantara pre-conference workshop and the event opening just after. community discounts and planning our participation at Conferences and Events too. Of course our participation is your participation.
'I've really got to join Kantara' must have been a New Year's Resolution for some, because as with all other aspects of Kantara activity, Membership has seen a significant uptick. A big welcome to new members Transmute, Gluu (stepping up from 2 individual memberships), Excelsior Security Solutions, Michael Zygma and Parker Crockford. As well, a big welcome back to Airside Mobile and GEANT who renewed their memberships in January!
...
Follow us online: https://twitter.com/KantaraNews and https://twitter.com/UMAWG and https://twitter.com/KantaraCISWG.
- Miss something? See our press releases here.
Want to start a Kantara local chapter in your town? We are happy to help. Just Contact us.
Program, Work Group and Discussion Group Updates:
You can always keep up with the latest news from the Work and Discussion Groups directly on the Leadership Council's Blog. See the list of public groups here.
...