LC telecon 2013-01-09

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• Colin: can we have a meaningful roadmap conversation if we're under so much financial pressure? the business model is kind of working but it is not sustainable for the level of work we want to get out of it
• Patrick: two pieces to the discussion - there is a strategic requirement in Europe to support L2-4, what's happened in the last 24 hours is that the UK government finally approved its PKI strategy for L3 in particular; in that is a bridge, and everything mentioned before about service providers is in scope; linked to that are discussions about bringing in the GSA in to the broader international community in to the Bridges forum; this is something Kantara could step up to; by the end of February there will be greater clarity regarding the ask from the certification point of view, and this is going to come up again at RSA
• Patrick: the Association for Enterprise Integration, a trade association related to DoD, is interested in talking with Kantara to leverage their community for market outreach
  
  • Colin: so, bottom line is that if Kantara supports L3 and L4 with an international focus, we'll have an explosion of membership?
  • Patrick: in focusing on government supply chains in to various defense orgs, we can work with business not just the audit community to get business ready to be part of that secure government supply chain
  • Joni: the Tech America and the AEI that would allow one touch point to reach out to many industry players would be fabulous and better sooner rather than later; those are the kinds of opportunities where we can best facilitate given our financial situation (most efficient contact); regarding SAFE SAFEbiopharma and the 4Bridges forum and the lack of relevance of the US Gov't and FICAM:
    
    • first with SAFESAFEbiopharma, SAFE SAFEbiopharma and Kantara are colleagues and we're working together to create better messaging between the two organizations; SAFE SAFEbiopharma will leverage Kantara service approvals, and in terms of the European market when you have a traditional bridge operator like SAFESAFEbiopharma, Kantara is well poised to do the associated federation certification
      
      • John: while Verizon is FICAM certified, that is orthagonal to what they went through with SAFESAFEbiopharma; it is based on Kantara but not the same
      • Joni: yes, the point is more that the model is what we could use more effectively; SAFE SAFEbiopharma could come in to the EU market to do the bridge, and Kantara's ecosystem of assessor's could be offered to do the assessments
      • Let's get Patrick to bring this to the ARB for discussion; definitely get the topic for the next ARB meeting then bring Patrick in after some discussion
    • regarding FICAM and its relevancy, there is some serious activity going on there including work on a credential exchange model (F6) and Kantara has been working with the GSA and FICAM on these developments; the USPS is putting out an RFP for an identity-as-a-service that meets the FICAM requirements, etc; high level article available online
      
      • space to watch in 2013 will be the ID proxy approach
    • in addition to this kind of strategic discussion, the ARB will be a very good place to start
• Joni: in terms of business development, want to find a way for the LC to create a process by which the LC and the BoT work harmoniously to do further identification of opportunities; maybe an opportunities wiki? what about a grassroots effort to identify and log opportunities?
  • Colin: this seems reasonable; the BoT is too small to do this on their own
  • Joni: will create two subcommittees, one for the Assessors, one for the Credential service providers; these will be subcommittees of the Board (which means a change to the By-Laws) and involve a non-voting seat on the Board

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