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This is the running update from the Executive Director. Have questions or comments? Suggest some added information or edits? Contact Colin at kantarainitiative dot org.
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My role is not the only part of the organization seeing change. There are changes afoot in the Assurance Trust Framework operations program too, a major part of the organization that is gets global attention and attracts increasing numbers of services seeking conformity assessment and approval against Kantara's NIST SP 800-63-3 and other classes of approval under its Identity Assurance Framework scheme. If you would like to be involved in Kantara's scheme operations, please let me know.
It's so good to have the support of new and renewing members. In May we saw Dr Owl Health Technologies and Zenkey, the Sprint, Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile collaboration as well as Linaltec from Sweden all join as new members while Internet2, Experian, Verizon and 2Keys Corporation from Canada renewed for another year. Thank you! Supporting the Kantara community in its endeavours helps Kantara support you! Backatcha!
Regarding events, the Think Digital Identity for Government in May featuring our Government members GSA, DTA and less directly related, the Government of Sweden was hugely informative and well received by the largely UK government sector audience. The Leadership Council chairs pre-recorded their Identiverse session providing updates and goals achieved since the 2020 Identiverse update. This will be released a few days before Identiverse kicks off on June 21. The US Healthcare industry association CARIN Alliance, that Kantara has very close ties with, pre-recorded its panel for Identiverse last week also, where Cambria Health's Max Templeton, Blake Hall from ID.me and myself riffed and jived under the expert moderation skills of CARIN's Ryan Howells. But before we get to Identiverse later in the month, we have the IdentityNorth Annual Summit underway in Canada right now. We look forward to seeing Kantara's Director of Assurance Operations, DIACC's Joni Brennan, Kantara member DTA's Shannon Peterson and Jeremy Grant from the Better Identity Coalition discuss aligning Canadian standards with International standards in digital identity and why that's important. While on the topic of things Canadian, stay tuned for more details on a webinar featuring Kantara, DIACC and friends DTA's Juleigh Cook and NIST's David Temoshok due for broadcast later this month, on the value of national and international industry orgs for enabling trust & identity. To finish, I am delighted to signal an upcoming announcement regarding Kantara and Women in Identity. The relationship began in 2019 when both organizations sought sponsors for WID's code of conduct for diversity and inclusion, then in 2020 Kantara joined WID but since that is free, also made a modest donation. It's good that 2021 will see a more formalized partnership. Stay tuned for details.
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Amongst a slate of community Group work baking in the oven, the PImDL Discussion Group voted through a Group-Approved draft of its Privacy and Identity Report to support ISO compliant mDL implementations. The Leadership Council will see it next and it remains on track for publication before the end of the month. The draft Report should help allay potential concerns raised by @ACLU here https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1396479281862164480 if mDLs are not implemented in compliance with ISO 18013-5. Consideration is also given to assisting non ISO compliant implementations for example using decentralized architecture.
So While I remain over-fully engaged through June, I sign off my last Director's Corner here, happy but also a bit sad that this is my last Director's Cornerblog under this banner. As I think back to the 10th Anniversary in 2019 and what has been achieved both before and since, I am proud of what this organization has achieved these past 5+ years through the tireless efforts of its volunteer members, staff (who do a considerable amount of volunteering too!) and its reinvigorated Board. There is lots more to come this year, including more 'industry firsts' to add to our virtual trophy cabinet, that my successor will share with you via some means, if not this blog.
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