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Hello everyone

This is the running update from the Executive Director. Have questions or comments? Suggest some added information or edits? Contact ED colin at kantarainitiative dot org.

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In April, we welcomed new members Dominode and Exponent Inc from the US (the latter being an outstanding performer in our KIPI program), and welcomed back renewing member Identity.com, a well known member in our Trust Framework program. Thank you! 

The first half of the month was incredibly busy for me as Kantara Europe was in 3 different consortia bidding for 2 EU H2020 grant funding applications, all closing on the same day on April 17.  Much of the strength of Kantara is drawn from its breadth, and no better example exists where this is born out. One consortia bidding on a blockchain project wanted Kantara because of its Trust Framework operations and knowledge of how to elicit assessment criteria from standards requirements and proceed to create a program of assessing, reviewing, approving and granting of trust mark.  While you may view blockchain identity and attribute exchange as a new thing, this fledgling industry draws on established processes.  Another bid wanted Kantara because of its reach into Applied Research and Development arising out of the KIPI Program - in essence locating ground breaking ideas for further grant funding; while the third consortia was re-bidding a proposal submitted last year, with additional consortia members, one of them being OIX UK. It is a good example of industry collaboration where complementary value propositions can be leveraged for the common good.    

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Next is Kantara's first own-brand Summit for Marketing, Media and Privacy now May 22nd in London with a keynote by Johnny Ryan from Irish programmatic advertising company Pagefair and well-known in IAPP circles, together with many ad tech industry luminaries. Group tickets available from £139 each. If you are a Kantara member, a 30% discount using code K3022 on registration.

Later that same week, I will be in Helsinki keynoting at IAMwithUBI and with the UK royal nuptials the week before still in the recent memory of many, I will marry a well-known wedding rhyme to the current state of digital identity.  Wish me luck on that idea!  It's going to be a great month!

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Program, Work Group and Discussion Group Updates:

  • Consent Management Systems best practice WG has seated its editor, and its meetings are currently taken up with demos from various solution providers to inform the collection of best practice going forward. Thank you sponsors iWelcome and digi.me.  

  • You can always keep up with the latest news from the Work Group and Discussion Groups directly off the Leadership Council's Blog.

  • See the list of public groups here
  • Consent Receipt v1.1 and the SAML V2.0 Interoperability Deployment Profile V1.0 is being prepared for publication. 
  • The IRM work group is considering the use of Graphing technology to provide fine grain permissions to address governance, risk Management and compliance requirements, while also catering for the increase in scale arising from the explosion of IoT. 

  • As always our Specifications, Recommendations and Reports are available for download from our Reports and Recommendations web repository.   

  • Not sure where to find things? Staff are only too willing to assist.  Contact them via email.

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