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The month started with liaison partner CARIN Alliance's Summit in DC. Kantara members and supporters were out in force. Thank you LG Software, ID.me, Catherine Schultern, Noreen Whysel and Dr Tom for your support of 3 of us speaking formally and all of you speaking informally. We had Identity North in Toronto next where Leadership Council Chair Andrew Hughes represented Kantara, followed by the Think Digital Identity for Government conference in London where Kantara Board member ISOC's Robin Wilton spoke brilliantly on ethics while Kantara member IDCrowd's David Black and I tag-teamed on Assurance. As we hit the second week of June Identity Week UK saw presentations from Kantara members ID Crowd and Meeco as well as myself. I had to cut out a day early to head to Brussels and put my Kantara Europe hat on for the Management meeting of the H2020 R&D NGI_Trust consortium, where (after any potential conflicts of interest were avoided) the 38 evaluations done by the Kantara Europe Directors in the previous weeks were stacked up and ranked alongside other 71 proposals evaluated by other consortium partners to draw the top 18 projects and discuss the way ahead for the next 2 calls. The level of innovation and sheer range of proposals was simply jaw-dropping. Week 3 of June was birthday week - Kantara's 10th anniversary! - and as with all events in June, Kantara's sessions have been afforded extra time to run our video of achievements as it did with Whitehall Media's IDM UK conference and EEMA's annual conference the day after. Liaison partner EEMA were especially accommodating allowing us to interrupt proceedings for a cake cutting ceremony as Kantara treated all conference goers to really yummy cake, straight after Kantara's session featuring UMAnitarians Cigdem Sengul & Tim Reiniger and Kantara Consent Receipt's Mark Lizar. June finished with a great flourish in DC for Idenitiverse where Kantara members and new DC local staffer Chris Healy manned a display table in the community area of the Expo Hall while Kantara's Masterclass saw ForgeRock's Eve Maler, Catherine Schultern, Kantar incubated ID Pro's Ian Glazer, MIT's Thomas Hardjono, Identos's Mike Cook, Consent and Information sharing work group's Andrew Hughes and myself walk the audience through the latest status of Kantara's work. All these folks spoke in other sessions and it was especially good to listen to Identos's Alec Law and Mike Cook relate their interoperability experiences with UMA in Canada, Eve and ForgeRock colleague Ashley on 'Real-World Identity Relationships Driving Data Decisioning' and ID Machines' Sal D'Agostino, Chair of Kantara's since archived Identity Relationship Management work group speak on 'The Relationship Lifecycle of Things'. Catherine and Eve teamed up the next day with liaison partner CARIN Alliance to lead 'A protected Digital Identity for the Healthcare sector' with a play to UMA/HEART and Andrew Hughes drew the shortest of straws to be opening on Friday morning after the conference party to demonstrate Kantara Consent Receipts in action to a decent sized and engaged audience. If there are folks reading this that feel they aren't getting this level of value from their Kantara membership, I suggest they reach out to the folks mentioned to learn how Kantara work assists their industry profile.
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A final reminder to take a look at our 10th Anniversary celebration video, Infographic and social Wall here, straight off the homepage of the website (scroll down).
This month we welcome new Individual Contributor members Christine Abruzzi and Martin Smith and welcome back corporate members GEANT, MEECO, United ID, USPS and Zentry. Please join me in welcoming new member One.Thing.less honoring these members and we thank you one and all for your support of Kantara's ethics, ethos, its specifications, R&D Program and Trust Marked Assurance operations.
On the community side of the house:
- the Consent & Information Sharing WG (CISWG) is gathering contributions for the first draft of Consent Receipt v2.0 and collaborating with members on the Consent Receipt Generator and developing the demo with its requisite privacy dashboard. It is also gathering contributions on the DIACC's (the Digital Identification and Authentication Council of Canada) document out related to Notice and Consent https://diacc.ca/2019/04/03/notice-consent-overview-conformance-discussion-drafts/ as a component of the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework to set a baseline of public and private sector interoperability of identity services and solutions. If you want to contribute you must join the CIS working group (no charge)
- the UMA WG is maturing its business - legal framework model and preparing presentations for Identiverse as well as the 105th IETF meeting in Canada. Interoperability testing is increasingly needed so if you can help, please let us know.
- In further support of Kantara's Trust Framework Operations program and its NIST 800-63-3 Rev 3 Class of Approval, the continues its call for contributions (see it from the wiki landing page here) for the next build of the specification, and see the existing known implementations here.
- the UMA WG continue its call for contributions of UMA profiles and extensions while also fine-tuning the business - legal framework model.
- hot on the heels of the US federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published its much awaited policy on identity credential and access management. It lays out the US federal government's expectations of agencies in this regard and the role of various stakeholders, with a strong emphasis on 63-3. As the Leadership Council chair observed, our the GAO just published GAO-19-288 'Federal Agencies need to strengthen online identity verification processes' a need that Kantara can fulfil via its Trust Framework Operations program and its NIST 800-63-3 Rev 3 Class of Approval under the Identity Assurance Framework tangibly demonstrates Kantara's alignment - that *this* is the scarce resource that only Kantara can offer. In addition, the new memo makes it far easier to make the connection to a purchasing department requirement - both are the magic ingredients to selling approvals. The month did not end there for the Identity . Its steward ,the Identity Assurance Working Group (IAWG) as it was busy providing comments back to DIACC on its Pan-Canadian Trust Framework.the Identity Assurance Work Group (IAWG) has released a refreshed is putting the final touches to its report to NIST regarding its learnings from assessments where guidance and clarification would be helpful. The refreshed Overview and Glossary for the Identity Assurance Framework (IAF) is out for public review and comment and invites them allwelcomes your contribution.
I'm looking forward to a break in summer for sure, but let the good times keep rolling right through till the Fall and beyond.
Keep well, keep hustling and keep championing Kantara's ethics, ethos and services to the industry and community we serve - YOUSummer's here. Enjoy and relax!
Kind Regards,
Colin
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