Hello everyone
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Summer marches on in the northern hemisphere with a continuation of wild extremes of weather, while in the southern hemisphere, Kantara staff tell me its been bitterly cold in South America. And for our members in APAC it is 'business as usual' with Australia and New Zealand both holding their respective identity conferences.
Whichever hemisphere you are in, I hope that the annual pause in pace, gives you time for some rest and recovery - perhaps also some time to respond to Kantara's member survey.
Without the constant pressure of conferences, Kantara staff use this period of the year to do all-important maintenance and updates to the website and wiki. Some of these changes are subtle but I hope you see them nonetheless. This year has been no exception tho' we have noted how much busier it is this year, with a full slate of calls for the assurance program, strategic opportunities and upcoming conference planning. The NGI_Trust project of which Kantara Europe is a consortium partner has been particularly busy. And spare a thought for our members in APAC where it is 'business as usual' with Australia and New Zealand both holding their respective identity conferences.
There is exciting news to come in the last two weeks of the month so watch out for the announcement on social media.
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- the Consent & Information Sharing WG (CISWG) 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 has its last call for contributions of UMA 2.0 profiles and extensions while also fine-tuning the business - legal framework model, while considering a re-submission to the IETF of the UMA specs as an Informational RFC in the Security Area.
- meanwhile the Federation Interoperability WG is meeting regularly through the summer having had acceptance of SAML2INT in the REFEDS community and looking to perform analysis of extended features to evolve it into a Federation Deployment Profile with a brand name tbd, with further development of educational and assurance tools. If you are part of the REFEDS community you really should take this opportunity to join this group.
- and last but definitely not least is the emergence of the new FIRE (Federation Identity Resilient Ecosystem) WG, to carry on the work of the IDESG, whose assets transitioned to Kantara's Educational Foundation last year.
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