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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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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. 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. 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. Our two other bids with a different mix of consortia are looking good! I hope to update you on our progress in due course.
The second week of February saw your European based staff gather in Vienna for the TIIME workshop brilliantly convened by eGov WG Chair Rainer Hoerbe. We find this a perfect venue to brainstorm longer term strategy and work through detailed plans for the Assurance program and the R&D program, because we are surrounded by our friends from the Research and Higher Education Federations who regularly attend this conference to engage with each other and with Kantara too, one of the few (if only) industry consortia to be bestowed such honor, given the alignment of our collective ethics and ethos. There are some inspiring ideas flowing from the proceedings in the link above, and in addition I was able to take two sessions on NGI_Trust, with over a handful of strong interest shown in developing proposals coming from this event.
While on the subject of R&D, the DHS signed off Phase 3 of Exponent's MOB4PACS project using smartphones as PIV cards with NFC and BLE, the final phase which sees this fantastic technology ready itself for commercialization.
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