Testimonials

Matthew Gardiner

"The Identity world to date has lacked a single place where a broad swath of technical, legal, policy, and policy experts can get together to collaborate and solve real-world identity and security management challenges in advance of these challenges negatively impacting the Internet.  The Kantara Initiative's timely creation and open governance model make it a very promising new organization to help the Internet community get ahead of the identity curve."
--Matthew Gardiner, Senior Principal, Product Marketing, CA, Inc.

Nat Sakimura

"Future internet business will be positively affected by jumping the technology barrier to derive the maximum benefit from authentication technologies such as OpenID.  I expect that the launch of Kantara Initiative will accelerate technological innovation and enhancement of interoperability. By expanding this effort around the world, it will help provide more users with the ability to better manage and protect their digital identities online."
--Nat Sakimura, Senior Researcher, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd, and Vice Chairman, XDI.org

Ken Salzberg

"My interest and support for Kantara Initiative is based on the promise of interoperability and longer term convergence across the vast identity ecosystem to enable holistic identity management.   This will in turn drive adoption and lower costs of both supporting applications and implementations and drive ease of use for the end user."
--Ken Salzberg, Director Technology Management, Systems Technology Lab, Intel 

Roger Sullivan

"The problems we face are not just technology, but rather a combination of business policy and privacy requirements, balanced against interoperability, usability, as well as technology harmonization. All of these issues need to be addressed for identity-based solutions to succeed and for deployers to leverage their benefits. Kantara Initiative is uniquely positioned to address these needs."
--Roger Sullivan, Vice President, Oracle Identity Management

Robert Temple

"Industry collaboration is necessary for the wide scale deployment of interoperable, secure and privacy-respecting identity-enabled applications and services. I support the launch of Kantara Initiative because it is bringing individuals, organizations and communities together to collaboratively solve the harmonization and interoperability challenges that exist in the identity sector today. The collaborative work taking place within Kantara Initiative will help speed the deployment of interoperable identity-enabled solutions for businesses, governments and people, across regions and fixed and mobile networks."
--Robert Temple, Vice President, Security Technologies, BT

Paul Trevithick

"The promise of the Kantara Initiative is that it will weave together multiple identity technologies into a coherent whole. This is greatly needed. The Information Card Foundation hopes to collaborate closely with Kantara, especially on the use of Information Cards as a unifying user experience metaphor irrespective of the underlying technology or protocol."
--Paul Trevithick, Chair, Information Card Foundation