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Longer and lighter days during March for the northern hemisphere are welcome even though the snow still hangs around in some countries. Along with the spring weather, Kantara has felt that upbeat activity level to its work, as 3 Work Groups see the finishing feel to work as well, as the activity level rises, whether it line for their respective projects.

eGov and Identity Relationship Management are ready to vote on their guidance as Kantara Reports – eGov’s Code of Conduct for Relying Parties in Identity Management, and IRM’s V2.0 of the Principles of Identity Relationship Management. The Federated Interoperability Working Group has completed its first major piece of specification work since the eGov profile for SAML 2.0 was passed over to the FIWG for integration into the SAML 2.0 Int profile derived from the Research and Education community. Look for those efforts to go into public review in late April.

And there’s more to come in April. The whole world eagerly awaits the completion of the UMA 2.0 specification, while the Report from the Blockchain Smart Contracts Discussion Group is shaping up to be a classic piece of ground breaking thought leadership that Kantara’s volunteers are renowned for.

If you've read this far, read Kantara's new Mission statement again;

Kantara Initiative is the global consortium improving trustworthy use of identity and personal data through innovation, standardization and good practice.

It follows that Kantara members are often invited to speak at interesting events. It’s easy to see why. Quite simply, Kantara ‘walks its talk’. One such event was a Barclay’s Bank hosted event in London on March 16^th – the Data Sharing Principles Group – whose ambition is to promote to the public at large, a very simple set of primary principles;

My data is mine
It cannot be shared without my consent
I have the right that my consent will not be abused

Kantara Director and Digi.me founder Julian Ranger and I both spoke, and Mark Lizar co-chair of the Consent and Information Sharing Work Group chipped in with supporting comments. The previous week I was in Washington DC representing Kantara at the GSA’s FICAM day, which focussed on presenting the significant progress made on digital signature interoperability between the EU and the US. This work will play a key role in the continued growth of the digital economies of all applicable States. I finished the month ‘back home’ in New Zealand with a mix of personal time and work, meeting up with Kantara members and preparing for ISO SC27 meetings in Hamilton, where Kantara has a Category C Liaison with Working Group 5 – Identity Management and Privacy Technologies.

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If you stand back and look across Kantara's portfolio, you'll see a kind of cadence:

Brainstorming DGs - to - Spec writing WGs - to - conformance assessment Programs.

Kantara offers the DGs to make it easy to contribute and investigate, size and frame up value propositions that industry needs.

DGs are the 'birds of a feather' that typically draw in first movers and thought leaders like you, in order to frame up WGs that bring in a community of paying members because that community wants that spec/whatever written, to solve a particular problem. And once it is written they typically want to formalize that through paid conformance assessment and approval, to delineate those who have it and those that don't, in the marketplace - for the safety, security and privacy of all users of the digital economy.

That is Kantara's business model.

Roughly 60% of Kantara's revenue comes from membership, and 40% from the Identity Assurance Program. Kantara wants to reverse that metric and in the long term, drive down the reliance on membership once a sufficient number of monetized programs can carry the overhead costs of the platform.

The Identity Assurance Program came about because of a need (in that case US Federal agencies needing to leverage private sector Identity and Credential Service Providers) which in turn brought the CSPs to join Kantara, form the Identity Assurance Working Group and to contribute to the spec (in that case the Identity Assurance Framework) which in turn became the monetized 3rd party assessment and conformance Program, for which Kantara is known globally for.

You can see glimmers of this model surfacing in discussions in the Consent & Information Sharing WG about writing conformance criteria for the recently balloted Consent Receipt, and in the Identity of Things DG....

I ask you to spare a thought for this lens through which to view Kantara, as you work through these great suggestions.

Whatever you decide, it doesn't have to be a mirror image of the Identity Assurance Program, nor using the synergies of another WG's outputs, tho' both are good beacons to be guided by.

But it does have to be a strong enough value proposition that motivates a community to come to Kantara to do their work to solve their problems.

And the revenue they bring allows Kantara to continue to cover the cost of great brainstorming DGs like the BSC DG that kick-starts the cadence of the model.

Roll on April!

Colin

Around the Houses:

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Media	Link
Security Week	http://www.securityweek.com/kantara-initiative-assists-eu-privacy-and-gdpr-issues
Hackbusters	http://www.hackbusters.com/news/stories/1411639-kantarakanta http://www.internetac.org/ra-initiative-assists-with-eu-privacy-and-gdpr-issues
Global Security Mag	http://www.globalsecuritymag.com/Kantara-Initiative-Joins-European,20170404,70067.html
Biz Dallies	https://goo.gl/ClrQwU
IT Security	https://tsecurity.de/de/143792/IT-Security/Nachrichten/Kantara-Initiative-Assists-With-EU-Privacy-and-GDPR-Issues/
Digi.me	https://blog.digi.me/
Kantara Initiative	https://kantarainitiative.org/kantara-initiative-joins-european-trust-foundation/
Insightaas	http://insightaas.com/kantara-initiative-joins-european-trust-foundation/

Program, Work Group and Discussion Group Updates:

The WGs and DGs of Leadership Council now operate a blog, so you can read what's going on in groups you are not regularly attending. See it here
ID Pro DG has a new logo! that you can find on the early phase of a new website: idpro.org and on Twitter @idpro_org. If your organization wants to be acclaimed as a founding member of a new Association of Digital Identity Professionals, please email me, colin at kantarainitiative dot org.
The Identity Assurance Working Group is reviewing its new Charter and is preparing some exciting new plans to support the Identity Assurance program this year.
The Federation Identity Working Group is poised to vote through its draft 'SAML V2.0 Implementation Profile for Federation Interoperability' - a joint effort between the global R&E community and Kantara, which is designed to converge requirements and conformance into a single easy profile.
KIPI - the Kantara Identity, Privacy Incubator, has 3 live projects that have a potential funding value of up to US $2.4Million!
As always if you have a query or question, staff are only too willing to assist. Email them here https://kantarainitiative.org/contact-us/

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