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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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I'm typing this the day after the October time slew period has ended - the two week period where Europe's clocks go back one week before North America's. The chairs of Kantara's work groups will be happy to see the back of it because inevitably we lose valuable meeting time. It seemed that we managed pretty well this Fall, with only very minor upset. Well done the Leadership Council (and the WG Chairs that comprise it) for good management .
October was a hugely busy month of travel for me personally as your Exec Director with more to come in November, tho' not quite so intense as October.
October continued the good news that September and October delivered Kantara. It's more the norm in recent months. Is it that our 10th anniversary awareness galvanized longstanding intent into definitive action? Maybe. Is it that the OMB's M-19-17 circular to US federal agencies in which conformance to NIST 800-63-3 is reinforced? Quite possibly. It's well known in federal circles that self attestation is not given much credence, and Kantara being well known as the only 3rd party assessor and approver of a transparent community developed 63-3 scheme and class of approval. Whatever it is, it is seeing Kantara staff very very busy with prospective member enquiries and proposals and requests for Kantara engagement from industry - both federal and state in the public sector along with private sector too. I do hope it won't be too long before we can share those with you.
The month began with IIW in Mountain View with great demos of UMA and Consent Receipt from Kantara members Gluu and Transmute Industries respectively. we gather in San Francisco for Kantara's North American member's plenary on Thursday morning followed by the Board's F2F meeting setting out the plans for the coming year with new and exciting developments at Board level pending.
Thank you all for supporting our mission, ethics, ethos and values.
The following week it's IDENTITY WEEK ASIA, October 8-9th 2019 at Suntec Convention Centre, Singapore where I have a huge few days as the conference organisers have made the very most of my offer to help out/fill gaps. .
The week after LC Chair Andrew Hughes and I are in Paris for the ISO /IEC JTC 1/SC 27/ Working Group 5 (Identity Management & Privacy) meetings where we present results of the Study Periods for Consent Receipts and Records as well as Identity Proofing and Verification that we are leading through Kantara's Category C Liaison.
We are then into the latter half of October and it's another Kantara member-fest with @ForgeRock's @GuruAllan, @NixuTigerTeam 's @MartinSandren, @OnethingLess's @JamesAschberger, @Meeco_Me's @katrynadow @iglazer and myself will be presenting at Consumer Identity World in Amsterdam. Use the code CIW19Kantara and get 25% off the ticket price.
Two weeks later it's the first week of November and EEMA's legendary ISSE conference in Brussels, @Ubisecure 's @osantolalla will demo the Consent Receipt and Ruth Puente who will present the 2nd call for NGI_Trust grant funding. If you haven't attended before, you won't get a better chance than this; From Sept 30th Kantara members enter code MEFSE for 35% off full ticket price €400 (nett €250 + VAT).
And that's not all. There is the emerging premier government focussed identity conference coming up in December but I will leave those till next month to treat you with.
But in doing so, it takes us full circle, as discussion around the latest twists and turns of the UK government's digital identity 'reset' where the Identity Assurance working group's industry contributions highlighted in September's 'Keeping up with Kantarians' email newsletter include the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS)'s Call for Evidence., garnered significant industry comment as did my own personal opinion piece. Both are expected to be referenced in discussion at Think Digital Identity For Government in December.
This month we welcome back several Corporate and Individual Contributor members; KnowNow Information Ltd the consent management platform from the UK, Kuma.pro the US based trust framework program assessor, Telus the highly regarded telco from Canada, Uninett the Norwegian National Research & Education Network, and esteemed individual contributor Ian Glazer.
We need you all! Please volunteer to review and comment on other industry initiatives, further develop our own specifications and programs and blog on your favourite Kantara topic.
Kind Regards,
Colin
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