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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 Colin at kantarainitiative dot org.

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It's Thanksgiving weekend in the US and I do hope that the Kantara family there have rested, eaten well, given thanks to friends, family and loved & worshipped ones - perhaps also done some shopping on Friday if real bargains could be found (wink).  Appropriately, I want to begin this month's blog by giving thanks to the dedicated band of member and non member participant volunteers who take time that they often don't have, to contribute their expertise and experience to Kantara's working groups, Boards and meetings, to present Kantara at conferences and on panels, to support Kantara in internal meetings and champion Kantara at external meetings. Thank you all. You know who you are because there are not so many (wink). My Kantara staff too, without whom you would not have meetings and reports, analysis and recommendations, reminders and eBallots, member renewals and surveys, Tweets and newsletters, invoices and payments, updated and secure websites and wikis, and much much more. Thank you so much Ruth, Oliver, Armin and Chris. And Bella, Megan, Stephanie, Rob, Michael, Rebecca, Darya and Bob at Virtual Inc (wink). 

November was less intense for your Executive Director, but nonetheless, busy and exciting as the 2020 strategic and tactical plans for your Kantara take real shape and form. While 2019 saw us celebrate Kantara's 10 years of accomplishments in program expansion and specification development & 3rd party conformity assessed assurance - 'ethics and conformance Trust Marked' is how strapline our presentations - Kantara 2020 portends to be a game-changing year, as your organization breaks new ground in our industry delivering a value proposition second to none. Of course it's only going to be that for organizations and individual contributors that seize the opportunities and ride the waves. Pay attention if you are in 'passive monitoring Kantara mode' on a working group or in a holding pattern for maybe, might be, could be membership and program participation.  2020 is the year to get off the fence, join your industry association and 'just do it'.  

The first week of November saw Kantara month began with IIW 29 in Mountain View with great demos on EduGAIN, Gluu Gateway and Transmute ID with Kantara UMA and Kantara Consent Receipt from members GEANT, Gluu and Transmute Industries respectively. There were great presentations from Kantara work group participants @gffletch with his legendary UMA 101 class (so gratifying to see a full room of interested folks not seen before) and @justin_richer on OAuth xyz that takes the profiling work done to create OpenID Connect and Kantara UMA together with other learnings, to work towards an OAuth 3.0.  Fincity's Erik Lamb and I attempted to a 'Consent Receipt for Financial Services' session that suffered from projector challenges. Nonetheless all IIW materials - Kantara related and others - are here. 

I had to cut short my attendance at IIW 29 to attend the Board's F2F meeting in Board Member ForgeRock's offices in downtown San Francisco with a near full attendance in person and remote. It was an intense but fulfilling meeting where key decisions were taken on Kantara's 2020 strategic direction. You'll see some structural changes coming in the form of all-member ballots that will pave the way for this next exciting phase of Kantara's development as it reinforces our mantra 'nurture, develop, operate' in its open and inclusive community participation format.  Thank you all for supporting our mission, ethics, ethos and values.

After a long flight via Taipei, I arrived in Singapore for the IDENTITY WEEK ASIA conference on October 8-9th 2019.  As I mentioned last month, the conference organisers have made the very most of my offer to help out/fill gaps.  It was very valuable with several follow ups from AsiaPac organizations interested in Kantara, one in particular looking at membership level+ engagement. 

The week after LC Chair Andrew Hughes and I were in Paris representing Kantara and its Category C liaison to ISO /IEC JTC 1/SC 27/ Working Group 5 (Identity Management & Privacy) meetings. We presented results of the Study Periods for Consent Receipts and Records as well as Identity Proofing and Verification.  If you haven't yet seen the breaking news on that, it is that a New Work Item - Consent records - information structure - was proposed for national body ballot. The accompanying 'working draft 0' comprises the section headings from Kantara's Consent Receipt and contributions from Kantara's original participants together with those from around the world and signals 'the end of the beginning' as Andrew aptly put it. Seeing them taken up by a treaty organization like ISO sees the achievement of Kantara's core ambitions with its open specifications.    

Kantara members and supporters @iWelcomeCompany 's @EstherHoeksema, @ForgeRock's @GuruAllan, @NixuTigerTeam 's @MartinSandren, @Meeco_Me's @katrynadow, @iglazer and @LubnaDajani were all presenting at Consumer Identity World in Amsterdam. What a blast! A special big shout-out to @iWelcomeCompany for your invitation to a nighttime canal trip and lovely meal afterwards. Thank you! 

Thankfully, my 5 week travel burst ended there and the last week of October was spent at my UK home catching up on sleep, work and 'life' in equal measure (wink).

It won't last long however as my bag is already part-packed for Whitehall Media's IDM conference in London this coming Wednesday where I am speaking on the controversial topic of government IDM programmes. Kantara generally, and myself personally, have been exposed to a considerable range of them and we are constantly asked to 'contrast and compare' them as we see them from our global independent viewpoint.  I suspect there will be no shortage of controversy this time either (wink).  Not that I will be around long enough to hear it because a few hours after speaking I am 'on the road again' to Brussels to speak at EEMA's legendary ISSE conference in Brussels. @Ubisecure 's @osantolalla has prepared a new video of the Consent Receipt in operation with Consentua's hypothetical 'paper cup shop' demo that I will show in my introductory orientation slides, and we are delighted to welcome @NixuTigerTeam 's @MartinSandren to share the podium together with @KantarNews staff Ruth Puente presenting the 2nd call for NGI_Trust grant funding.

The following weeks see me in Blackpool, DC and Montpelier Vermont.

How could three places be so different yet attract requests for Kantara engagement? I'll reveal what I can when I update this blog next month!  

This month we welcome a new corporate member Turning Point Corporation preparing for assessor accreditation in the Identity Assurance Program and new individual contributor member Lorrayne Auld. And we welcome back several Individual Contributor members; Silvia Knittl from Europe, Chris Olsen, Sal D'Agostino and from the US.  

Get ready for the end-of-year sprint. My sense is that it is going to be massive..     

Kind Regards,

Colin

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Program, Work Group and Discussion Group Updates:

  • You can always keep up with the latest news from the Work and Discussion Groups directly on the Leadership Council's Blog. See the list of public groups here.

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

  • Not sure where to find things? Membership Bella, Ruth, Armin, Oliver, Chris and myself are only too willing to assist.  Contact them here.

Events: See them all here! 

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