Greetings folks
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Welcome to 2018! As the Holidays fade from near term memory, everywhere I look across the Kantara community, I see activities in pushing ahead with New Year's resoutions, business plans and new initiatives.
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We are looking for Kantara member sponsors and a venue in the Munich area. If your organization can help on either of or both of these, please Contact Us.
Near term, you'll see fellow Kataraians at the KNOW identity conference in Washington DC March 26 - 28, on a Kantara panel slated for Monday March 26th 2.40pm comprising members Mary Hodder, Scott Shorter, Tracy Hulver, Andrew Hughes moderated by myself, where we will discuss the topic 'Identity Service Provider Certification: Who cares anyway?',. If you're attending, please come along and join in on the conversation.
Just coming up in this first full week in February, Kantara will be participating in the TIIME workshop hosted by Kantara's own eGov WG Chair Rainer Hoerbe. We get together with our Higher Ed colleagues and interested others, as we work through identity related topics at the bleeding edge as well as refinements at the operational edge of the community. Wednesday 21st February heralds the first work-focussed meeting of the Consent Management Systems best practice WG, so if you have signed the Group Participation Agreement (GPA) or intend to, please do so as soon as possible so as to not miss out on anything. Later in the month, EEMA - Kantara's most active European liaison - is hosting me in Brussels at its members Fireside, a topic close to us all - the future of identity and trust.
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First and foremost, a warm welcome to Kantara's newest member Trunomi - known to many of you already - as a fast growing successful company in the personal data space and interested to contribute to and consume Kantara's consent-related artefacts as they are developed and monetized. Elsewhere in the month I caught up with several members and associates at the inaugural meeting of the UK Conservative Party's Science and Technology Forum digital identity working group meeting. And both Kantara IRM WG Chair Sal D'Agostino and I were invited onto respective panels in New York and London by the good folks at Fintech start-up Rainmaking.io. Great conversations and great opportunities were to be had, to make folks aware of your highly valued efforts in developing specifications for industry adoption and conformity assesssment schemes for industry Trust Framework operations.
We also opened our 2018 press release salvo with more Trust Framework news, this time announcing the MOU between the US IDESG and Kantara (its first and most active liaison partner) whereby Kantara approved and Trust Marked identity and credential service providers are 'pre-checked' for the majority of IDESG's baseline requirements of its IDentity Ecosystem Framework, thereby adding extra benefits to being approved under the Kantara Trust Framework 'classic' scheme. See the press release here.
Meanwhile, with the generous support of ID.me for supplying editing resources, Kantara is nearly ready to release the Service Assessment Criteria for the NIST SP 800-63-3 Guidelines for Digital Identity, for identity & credential service providers whose solutions are utilized by relying parties online. Kantara is extending the scope of Kantara's Trust Framework Operations Program with this foundational piece of new work. As you browse the new content on that link, please take our Survey regarding your current or planned compliance with Identity Management related standards. Help us to help you!
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Program, Work Group and Discussion Group Updates:
Wednesday 21st February: first work-focussed meeting of the Consent Management Systems best practice WG.
You can always keep up with the latest news from the Work Group and Discussion Groups directly off the Leadership Council's Blog.
- Join them here
- Kantara's Consent Receipt v1.1 has completed its public review and the working group are discussion your submitted comments.
@UMAWG has released the UMA 2.0 specifications into formal publication. Kantara's UMA protocol is ranked 2nd in Kuppinger Cole's top 10 trends for 2018. And 1st on Kuppinger Cole's list? 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.
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