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The meeting was called to order at about 1:05PM (US Eastern). Roll was called. The meeting was quorate.
Minutes approval: Mark King moved approval of the draft Minutes of the IAWG meeting of Aug 26. Mark Hapner seconded. The minutes as distributed were approved unanimously.
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Kay intends to move Kantara away from Virtual, a contractor that currently supports Kantara finances, membership, and other areas. She's looking for new company who can provide more services and at a better cost. Virtual currently handles the finances, membership, and other areas. They did handle our wiki and website, but that's been turned over to Kantara IT (Armin). AdditionallyAlso, she is looking to not renew our contract with GTM and transition to Zoom, as people have requested. The GTM contract ends at the end of September, so the decision will be happening soon. The concern A question regarding federal agencies use of Zoom has been investigated and the understanding is that classified meetings cannot be held via Zoom. Kay asked for concern within this group. After addressing functionality concerns and capabilities, the group was content with switching to Zoom.
Ruth Puentes has agreed to be contracted for a few hours a month to continue to provide support in making the transition to the new Assurance Program Manager (Lynzie Adams) as smooth as possible.
In recent talks with some UK government contacts Kay addressed the resistance surrounding the UK government with some contacts in recent meetings. They acknowledged these were truths and explained perception in Kantara that the UK identity program was not interested in Kantara input. They acknowledged there is some validity to that perception, but explained that with new people things will should be different. The Kay's goal was to ensure they understood our resistance perception and they did acknowledge it. She has a meeting with another official next week and will continue the conversation.
Kay has been approached by a French organization (OSIA) to create submit a proposal to do regarding third-party assurance on openassessment of service-providers' implementations of open source standards. She's spoken to some people within Kantara about potentially expanding the assurance program but needs to talk with the assessors regarding their interest level in another line of work. The informal proposal needs to be prepared for the OSIA board meeting at the end of this month.
There is a call next week about interoperability between scheduled for next week between GSA and New Zealand and Australia about interoperability. They're looking for ways to prevent CSPs from needing to do similar let CSPs avoid going through multiple similar certification processes in different countries.
Mark King raised two questions -
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He asked if Kay was referring to the AAPPG as an additional UK contact - if so, he said it seems like the right place to be for contacts with knowledge of views on identity matters in Parliament.
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He also asked if the potential OSIA work
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would have to be translated
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into French. Kay said she doesn't believe so but we are having some language issues in other areas so it is a good question to have confirmed.
Richard raised a few other questions. Is OSIA trying to get
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assessments that would conduct testing to validate interfaces, or more of a paper-based review? Kay would need to confirm but she believes it's more paper-based.
There Kay then noted that there has been a lot of work around healthcare recently. We are partnered in with the CARIN alliance. Additionally, A very recent development is that Direct Trust has taken over Safe Identity as of this week. We had an MOU with Safe Identity but through the process, our agreements are not assignable with Safe Identity anymorebut as a part of Direct Trust, Safe Identity will apparently not be bound by that agreement. Kay has meetings scheduled to see how we move forward. TEFCA has a specific section , which is responsible for implementing key identity-related HHS/ONC initiatives, has specific objectives on identity proofing and requires healthcare providers and their vendors have to be approved at several levels of assurance. Phil Lam is going to make some introductions to so we can alert these groups that Kantara is available for this service.
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