Greetings folks
This is the running update from the Executive Director. Have questions or comments? Suggest some added information or edits? Contact the ED colin at kantarainitiative dot org.
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As I am writing this Kantara is making final preparations for its booth, pre-conference workshop and several presentations and panels at the Cloud Identity Summit in Chicago. Please wear your Kantara 'swag' or seek out those sporting buttons, banners and stickers, to get yours. See you there!
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Recognition of new members should be given in the context of grateful thanks for renewing members, without whose support I would not be writing this today on this platform; Deutsche Telekom AG, Government of Canada, Internet2, Neustar,
Scott Perry Associates, Symantec, Synchronoss/Zentry and a whole bunch of committed individual contributors.
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Kind Regards
Colin
Around the Houses:
Marketing:
We had good press and social network coverage AprilMay.
- See Follow https://twitter.com/KantaraNews and https://twitter.com/UMAWG and https://twitter.com/KantaraCISWG and 'Follow' them from now on!.
- KIPI - the Kantara Identity, Privacy Incubator, featured strongly as did UMA's last call for contributions to UMA 2.0 'in the news' .
Program, Work Group and Discussion Group Updates:
- Keep a look out for a new Report - "Refining the Design Principles of Identity Relationship Management v2.0f from the Identity Relationship Management Work Group, hitting the Reports and Recommendations page later this month.
- You can keep up with all the latest directly off the Leadership Council's Blog here or come to see our Working Group Chairs in action at CIS '17 in Chicago June 19-22nd.
- As always if you have a query or question, staff are only too willing to assist. Email them here https://kantarainitiative.org/contact-us/
Events: See them here! https://kantarainitiative.org/calendars/
- The ISO SC27 meetings in Hamilton, New Zealand were good for Kantara with many of our comments accepted in the mission critical standard 29184, Guidelines for online Notice and Consent. Of note also, was that 29003 Identity Proofing failed its ballot to proceed to an International Standard and was relegated to a Technical Specification. However a new Study Period to begin the process of re-mixing that text into a future IS offers a back-handed compliment for Kantara, with the title of 'Identity Assurance Framework' a phrase very well known to Kantara's Identity Assurance Program and Work Group. A search of the term will indicate its first use and the subsequent uses by other entities.
- On the subject of Identity Assurance, representatives of GÉANT/REFEDS, InCommon, SUNET, SURFNet and Kantara, met in Washington DC April 23rd, on the eve of the Internet2 global Summit to discuss closer collaboration on identity Trust Framework development. Updates on this initiative will be given as events unfold.
- And still stay tuned for extra special events September and beyond.
Cheers!Kind Regards
Colin