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April saw more events planning activity for Kantara than we have seen in the past 12 months combined. In We planned our members line-up for our Identiverse panels in June, and EIC '21 and Identity Week in September as finalising the logistics for the international panel for Think Digital Identity for Government in May, another webinar with industry friends and Kantara Europe represented on the NGI Forum discussing some pretty heavy policy conundrums. In last month's blog I mentioned that we ran a virtual booth at the ONC Annual meeting at the end of March. We have those materials prepared by Identos, Patient Centric Solutions, Airside, ForgeRock and the FIRE WG on the website now. Check them out! April saw Kantara feature in the inaugural International Identity Management Day on April 13th and the Internet Identity Workshop 32 April 20-22. Thank you Identos for your demo on your UMA deployment in healthcare in Canada and to Eve and George Fletcher for their reprise of the UMA 101 session. While on the subject of UMA, and as those who join the UMA calls already know, there's a major implementation of UMA about to unfold in Financial Services in the UK. There's much more to share regarding this in coming weeks and months, but you will get a sense of it by the addition of the new menu item on the Resources section of the website. Last but perhaps not least, if you follow me, or Ubisecure or Charly Harry Smith from the Oxford Internet Institute you may have seen the discussion and our subsequent podcast-come-fireside chat where we debated, amongst other things, whether digital identity was becoming commoditised or ubiquitous and subject to context, whether that was good or bad. I've long held the view that consumers simply want to get to the resource or entitlement and their digital identity should not cause needless friction in the process. Of course digital identity is critically important and we all expect those that manage and store our identifiers, credentials and attributes to do so securely and with privacy and personal agency as foundational. Different vendors do this with variable quality and contextual friction. But is it so terrible that some vendors prefer not to slam your digital identity in your face to re-identify you every time you begin a transaction thus making it ubiquitous as some in our industry have concerns over? I don't think so. That was the substance of the often humorous debate Charly and I were having, on a matter that may be the subject of debate for years to come.
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Beyond events, 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. 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, pooling our 63-3 experts with our mDL experts.
Kantara expects to make several important announcements in April arising from its exciting collaboration with, and between, members in different parts of the world. If you are not a member, and don't have access to news before it breaks, sign up to receive KantaraNews and follow @KantaraNews on Twitter as well as Kantara on LinkedIn.
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