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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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I’m in sunny Seattle in the first week of September as I write this month’s edition of Director’s Corner, as we start the second half of the conference season.  

Our first event conference hosted by our friends MyData2018, was held just last week in Helsinki. The Kantara community was well represented as members Consentua, digi.me, Open Consent Group, Trunomi and Ubisecure demonstrated an interoperability use case for the Kantara Consent Receipt.  These, along with other members such as Datafund, iWelcome, UNLOQ, and non-participants such as MyLifeDigital have all deployed Kantara’s Consent Receipt in a variety of ways inside their solution offerings.  And in a conference containing more theory than practice, the interop demo, Adrian Gropper’s demo of HIE of One with UMA and my own presentation on the many ways in which Kantara delivers on the 6 MyData principles, Kantara showed the personal data community, if any further proof was needed, ‘others talk, we do’.

The International Identity Summit (IIS) event hosted this year in Seattle by the University of Washington with the Industry host and Kantara liaison DIACC, is very different. It is essentially an invitation-only government event where jurisdictions share knowledge behind closed doors that are later opened to allow industry to engage. Typically Kantara would not attend because it has not been granted any podium time. But with Kantara holding the largest contingent of government members of any identity industry consortia and the fact that KIPI program performer Lockstep Technologies is announcing its transition to commercialization along with members Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada, 1Kosmos and SecureKey Technologies all presenting, we are honor-bound to support them as you might expect Kantara could do for you.  

Looking back into August, Kantara had both a busy and successful month.

In the US, Kantara's Assurance Review Board, the executive sub committee of the main Board governing the Trust Framework Operations and Assurance program 3rd party-approved ID.me, the first ever Service Provider conforming to NIST SP 800-63-3 Identity Assurance at IAL2 & AAL2 with several additional providers now in the queue for approval and grant of Trust Mark through Kantara’s Trust Framework Operations Programme. It got extensive press coverage but you can read the combined press release here that started that wave of interest, some of which you can see here.  With the transition of IDESG's assets into the newly established 501c3 entity, the Kantara Initiative Educational Foundation Inc, taking much of our resources in July, August was a period of consolidation as the IDEF WG began to take shape with further work drafting done on its charter. Kantara has control of IDESG's website and wiki and of course the IDEF Registry in its new V2 guise as well as the IDEF Trust Mark re-styled for Kantara's stable of schemes.  

In Europe, Kantara Initiative Europe, the Estonian based trade association operating Kantara's assets under licence, was successful in winning a bid for grant funding for ICT24 Next Generation Internet from the European Commission under the H2020 program. 

Our summer webinar series featuring 2 Australian members - the Australian Government's Digital Transformation Agency and Lockstep Technologies entiies on MDAV, drew a good number of attendees with great questions. Thank you to those that attended and if you registered you would have received the links to the presentations and recordings. Regarding DTA's webinar hsoted by Kantara's eGov WG we ran out of time to answer several of the more detailed questions, so the eGov Working Group has resolved to approach DTA to do a follow-up 'deep dive' on some specific aspects of the Trust Framework and technical architecture. Join the eGov WG and stay tuned for mre details.

On the process and procedures side of the house, your Leadership Council leads progressed the much delayed revision to the Operating Procedures over July and August. It is very close to being able to share with you, so stand by for it. My thanks to Ken Dagg, Sal D'Agostino and Andrew Hughes.

Think about the Work and Discussion Groups you maybe joined but haven’t attended in a while. If you’re signed up to the Consent and Information Sharing Work Group rock up to their calls in August as they put the finishing touches to the Consent Receipt Interoperability demo to be showcased at MyData 2018. Huge thanks to solution providers collaborating together to make this happen – Consentua, digi.me, iWelcome, Trunomi, Ubisecure, UNLOQ and the individual contributor volunteers under the oversight of John Wunderlich and Andrew Hughes.  You might want to check out the interview questions being drafted for clients of a similar suite of platform providers in the Consent Management Solutions Best Practice Work Group. Want to go more technical? Head to the IDoT Discussion Group where an architecture for a smart city use case is being worked on.

August saw Digicert join Kantara, and membership renewals from the Australia Governmen't DTA, ForgeRock, Ubisecure and Uninett. Thank you for your support for Kantara and the growing community it serves.   

Kind Regards,

Colin

Around the Houses:

Marketing:

Program, Work Group and Discussion Group Updates:

  • 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.

  • Block your calendar: Thursday August 16th, 3pm CET, 2pm BST, 9am US Eastern, 6am US Pacific: eGov WG is hosting a webinar featuring Kantara member the Australian Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) on the world's newest released national Trust Framework, the Trusted Digital Idenitiy Framework. The Links to register are in the text above.  

  • Consent Receipt v1.1 is being prepared for an interoperability demo at MyData in Helsinki August 29-31. Thank you contributors Trunomi, iWelcome, digi.me, KnowNow Information, UNLOQ Systems Ltd, Open Consent Group, UbiSecure, John Wunderlich and Associates, Robert Lapes and Andrew Hughes. 
  • Stand by for new news regarding the IRM work group's use of Graphing technology as members and non member participants begin to assemble around this work.  

  • As always our Specifications, Recommendations and Reports are available for download from our Reports and Recommendations web repository - now with frictionless access.  

Events: See them all here! 

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