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I want to start this month's Director's Corner with a brief update on the status of the ED search. Following the reach-out to Members and then advertising the role on LinkedIn in late March, the Board received over 40 applications. In the past couple of weeks this total pool was reduced down to a shortlist of 5 that the Board is interviewing currently. All of these candidates are more than capable of doing the job and the process has brought about some interesting structural alternatives for the Board's consideration. The Board's job is anything but easy in making its final selection during May. An announcement will be made as soon as it can be and the details of the handover from me in the months that follow.
We were thrilled to welcome LexisNexis to our membership ranks in April, joining Experian and Neustar as members from that sector of the ecosystem. Thank you! And many of you will have seen the tweet and LinkedIn post regarding members Renewing in April; 2Keys, Experian, Internet2, Verizon and individual contributor Mark King. Thank you one and all for demonstrating your support of Kantara's ethics and ethos and the activities that underpin our mission to grow and fulfil the market for trustworthy use of identity and personal data in pursuit of our vision to see equitable and transparent exchange of identity and personal data for mutual value.
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Beyond events, Kantara's Groups have been hard at work. The PImDL Discussion Group's Privacy and Identity Report to support ISO compliant mDL implementations is ready for Group vote this month and if successful, should be published before the end of the month. The FIRE WG has been planning a grant-funding submission to propose to Kantara's Educational Foundation, while the Identity Assurance Work Group continues juggling its full slate of consultation submissions to the UK Government's draft Trust Framework on the one hand while undertaking review and maintenance of Kantara's own document sets for its Trust Framework on the other. With the release of the RFI from the US Department of Homeland Security to assist subsequent planned new rule making for Real ID, upon which DL and mDL issuance is based, there's the likelihood that Kantara will respond by the due date of June 18, pooling our 63-3 experts with our mDL experts.
Kantara expects to make We had several important announcements in April arising from its exciting collaboration with, and between, members in different parts of the world. If the hopper for April but due to circumstances beyond our control we'll have to hold these over until we can talk about them. If you are not a member , and don't have access to news before it breaksreceive our direct emails, sign up to receive KantaraNews and follow @KantaraNews or keep an eye on @KantaraNews on Twitter as well as Kantara on LinkedIn where we try to get new news shared after it breaks.
As I sign off this month's post on Good Friday in the Christian calendar, I feel excited as I have just, in a different context for Kantara and another two members, finished an exciting (potentially dial-moving!) call regarding a new project.
Stay safe, get vaccinated if you can, and keep happy!
Kind regards,
ColinMay heralds a 'coming out from lockdown' month for many of us, please spare a thought for folks in India, Chile and elsewhere in the world where a second or third wave of the pandemic is set to create further misery with life ending consequences for loved ones. Kantara's community extends to these countries too and our collective heart goes out to them and their families.
Kind regards,
'CountdownColin'
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