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The formation of Kantara Initiative is being driven by a common purpose -- to accelerate adoption of digital identity solutions by Relying Parties -- the organizations, applications and services that require identity credentials to complete an online transaction. In order to do this, many industry stakeholders are coming together to define common goals and strategic adoption and marketing efforts that will benefit all standards-based solutions available to the ecosystem today. These solutions are based on protocols that may include OpenID, OAuth, InfoCard, ID-WSF, WS*, IAF, IGF, XDI, XACML, and SAML.
What is unique about Kantara Initiative?
The formation of Kantara Initiative marks the first time so many stakeholders representing varying initiatives have come together to address common challenges collaboratively. Kantara Initiative founders, members and participants recognize the success individual organizations and initiatives have in the market today, but they also recognize that the industry is at a crossroad, and without collaboration deployment of interoperable identity systems will continue to be delayed. Kantara Initiative participants and members are leveraging the experience and successes of each other to collaboratively advance interoperable identity solutions as well as incubate new and emerging ideas.
How can so many organizations work together effectively?
The organizations, participants and members coming together within Kantara Initiative understand the urgency involved in eliminating market fragmentation among multiple identity specifications and fostering interoperability between enterprise and Web 2.0 applications and services. The Kantara Initiative membership model will provide the flexibility and organizational support required to ensure maximum collaboration among experts and projects leads that will lead to speeding deliverables to the marketplace. Additionally, since different IPR models are available for the projects to choose from as they charter, this model supports the different ways that members might want to operate depending on the type of work they are doing.
What are the benefits to participating organizations and individuals?
Collaboration between enterprise and Web communities within Kantara Initiative will make it easier to leverage the work of each other, leading to the creation of holistic identity solutions that are delivered to the market faster. Organizations and individuals joining Kantara Initiative have an opportunity to shape the future of digital Identity management - from conception and incubation of a project, participating in the final vote on projects, to supporting short and long-term adoption strategies.
Who can/should join Kantara Initiative?
Identity organizations and their members, vendors and their employees working in the identity sector, developers, open source communities, legal, privacy and business experts - all organizations and individuals interested in contributing to a safer Internet for users and people are encourage to join the Kantara Initiative community. Participation is free, with no barriers to participation.
What are the meanings of the classifications of individuals on the online Group Roster pages?
"Voting" indicates the individual has signed the Group Participation Agreement (GPA) and is a voting member of the Group. "Non-Voting" indicates that the individual has signed the GPA but is NOT (currently) a voting member of the Group. "Observer" indicates the individual has requested read-only access to the Group's mailing list and has NOT signed a GPA.