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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Around the Houses:
Marketing:
There is one remaining sponsorship package left for Kantara's exclusive triple event pre-conference workshop on the Consumer Identity World Tour 2017 as the circus heads to Singapore next month. Contact us if you want that spot for $4,999 beside Forgerock.
You can always find us online: https://twitter.com/KantaraNews and https://twitter.com/UMAWG and https://twitter.com/KantaraCISWG.
Want to start a Kantara local chapter in your town? We are happy to help. Just Contact us.
Program, Work Group and Discussion Group Updates:
You can always keep up with the latest news from the Work Group and Discussion Groups directly off the Leadership Council's Blog.The Blockchain Smart Contracts Discussion Group's report has created high interest and lots of downloads. Here's what one expert (who shall remain nameless) said; "It was a pleasure to read, both well written and informative. (I’ve been reading a lot of BAD blockchain papers and articles lately ;-) ). The discussion of Smart Contracts is the best I’ve read. I’m going to pass it around to try to counter all the crazy Smart Contracts will solve all our problems talk going around the [entity redacted ] right now"
- Kantara's Consent Receipt v1.1 is nearing the end of its public review.Last call for comments!
@UMAWG has worked through the comments submitted in its second public review period, and is preparing UMA 2.0 for formal publication. Kantara's UMA protocol is ranked 2nd in Kuppinger Cole's top 10 trends for 2018. And 1st? None other than Kantara's Consent Receipt.
See all of our Specifications, Recommendations and Reports here and awaiting your download from our Reports and Recommendations web repository.
As always, if you have a query or question, staff are only too willing to assist. Contact them via email.
Events: See them here!
Looking forward to seeing as amny of you as possible in Paris for Consumer Identity World '17 for November 27th, and if you are in the APAC region, see us in Singapore at the awesome Marina Bay Sands hotel on December 12th. Join us there, save money! Kantara has discounted pass codes available for both these events
This is a MUST if you are a service provider selling services into the EU - Kantara's first hosted conference in London, the International Privacy Summit, January 29th. Or lock in #IPS18 to watch the action.Can't make it? Then see us at TIIME in Vienna, Austria, Europe's IIW February 5-8th 2018. Experts from across the trust/identity/data protection space will meet at TIIME 2018 in Vienna, Austria. Besides the well-established unconference there are two new events: Federation Boot Camp* All common architectures for X2Y identity Management in one hour. Crash course in SAML-based WebSSO and beyond (OIDC). If you are new on an FO team or planning to set up a new federation this is for you.
Open Source Software for Identity Management. Evaluating software, trying to improve or enhance existing products? Meet the experts! [3]
* Tutorial "Shibboleth from an FO perspective" to get practical insight into metadata management and SP on-boarding.
* Tutorial "Keycloak": Open Source all-in-one IDM solution
* Tutorial "Midpoint": Enterprise-scale provisioning
* Presentation stream "Consumer to Contributor": use cases, updates, road maps and community building for various OSS projects.