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<p>Are you able to view the links below? If not, please contact Dervla O'Reilly, dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org <br>
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FEATURES THIS MONTH
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<li><a href="#1">MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT</a></li>
<li><a href="#2">CURRENT FORMED GROUPS</a></li>
<li><a href="#3">UPDATE FROM A FEW DISCUSSION AND WORK GROUPS FROM RECENT MEETING</a></li>
<li><a href="#4">INTEROP TEST RESULTS</a></li>
<li><a href="#5">SPOTLIGHT ON EVE MALER</a></li>
<li><a href="#6">IDDY AWARDS</a></li>
<li><a href="#7">BLOG HOTSPOT</a></li>
<li><a href="#8">SOCIAL NETWORKING</a></li>
<li><a href="#9">PRESS RELEASES</a></li>
<li><a href="#10">UPCOMING EVENTS</a></li>
<li><a href="#11">SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES</a></li>
<li><a href="#12">BECOME INVOLVED</a></li>
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<a name="1">MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT</a>
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<p>Kantara Initiative had a very successful inaugural meeting co-located at the DIDW in Las Vegas. The Board of Trustees (BoT), Leadership Council (LC) and many Work Groups (WGs) discussed deliverables and scope of work moving forward. You can review the current formed groups and minutes from these <a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/dashboard.action">groups</a> below for updates from the meeting.</p>
<p>In addition, the recent formation of an Oversight Board to look at expanding the Interop program is underway. The third Liberty Interoperable full-matrix web-based testing event administered by the Drummond Group Inc., and the first event to test products against the new eGovernment SAML 2.0 profile v1.5 recently released by Liberty Alliance took place allowed vendors to participate from anywhere in the world. The summers full-matrix testing event included more vendors than ever before, reflecting the worldwide demand among enterprises and governments for SAML 2.0 identity-enabled solutions that have proven to interoperate. Organizations can count on Liberty Interoperable for products that have proven to meet interoperability requirements today and over the long-term as the program moves to expand within Kantara Initiative to test against additional identity standards and protocols.</p>
<p>Please stay tuned for location and dates for our next Kantara Initiative meeting estimated March/April 2010. We are looking for sponsors for upcoming meetings for Kantara Initiative. There are two "RFPs" that describe our requirements - one RFP is for a smaller venue for the Board of Trustees and Leadership Council. The second is for a larger meeting that would accommodate the BoT, LC as well as several work groups. Please contact dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org with questions. </p>
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CURRENT FORMED GROUPS
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<p>The Leadership Council approved the Work Groups (WG) and Discussion Groups (DG) listed below for operation. Each group has its own workspace (wiki), Google Calendar, and mail list available from the home pages linked below.<strong> </strong><br>
<a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/concordia">DG - Concordia</a><br>
<a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/icu">DG - Identity Community Update</a><br>
<a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/DGJ">DG - Japan</a> <br>
<a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/clients">WG - Clients</a><br>
<a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/WGCI">WG - Consumer Identity</a><br>
<a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/eGov">WG - eGovernment</a><br>
<a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/healthidassurance">WG - Healthcare Identity Assurance</a><br>
<a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/idassurance">WG - Identity Assurance</a><br>
<a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/WGIDPSEL">WG - IdP Selection</a><br>
<a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/idwsf">WG - ID-WSF Evolution</a><br>
<a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing">WG - Information Sharing</a><br>
<a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/WGJ">WG - Japan</a><br>
<a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/p3wg">WG - Privacy and Public Policy</a><br>
<a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/ulx">WG - Universal Login Experience</a><br>
<a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma">WG - User Managed Access</a> </p>
<p>Stay tuned for new groups being formed in the coming weeks: <br>
<a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/dashboard.action">http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/dashboard.action</a></p>
<p class="more"><a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/dashboard.action">Read more</a></p>
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<a name="3">UPDATE FROM A FEW DISCUSSION GROUPS FROM RECENT MEETING</a>
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<p><b>Assurance Review Board (ARB)</b> - The Board of Trustees appointed the Assurance Review Board to over see the activities of the forth coming Identity Assurance Certification Program.
<p><b><a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/BoT">Board of Trustees</a></b>
<br><a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/BoT">Minutes</a>
<p><b><a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/LC">WG - Leadership Council</a></b>
<br><a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/LC/Leadership+Council+F2F+-+2009-09-14">Minutes</a>
<p><b><a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/concordia">DG - Concordia</a></b>
<br><a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/concordia/Las+Vegas+Sept+16+2009">Minutes</a>
<p><b><a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/eGov">WG - eGov</a></b>
<br><a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/eGov/eGov+Meeting+-+2009-09-15">Draft Minutes</a>
<p><b><a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/WGIDPSEL">WG - IdP Selection</a></b>
<br><a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/WGIDPSEL/IdP+Selection+WG+Minutes+-+2009-09-16">Minutes</a>
<p><b><a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/idwsf">WG - ID-WSF Evo</a></b>
<br><a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/idwsf/Las+Vegas%2C+Sept+15%2C+2009">Minutes</a>
<p><b><a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/p3wg">WG - Privacy and Public Policy</a></b>
<br><a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/p3wg/Meetings+and+Minutes">Draft Minutes</a>
<p><b><a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma">WG - UMA</a></b>
<br><a href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/Meetings+and+Minutes">Minutes</a>
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INTEROP TEST RESULTS
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<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3554/3479115751_d75a2d0c8c.jpg" width="247" height="163" alt="Content Image Inline" style="border-bottom: 4px solid #bccf28; float:left; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;">Kantara Initiative and Liberty Alliance announced that identity products from Entrust, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Ping Identity, SAP and Siemens have passed Liberty Interoperable SAML 2.0 interoperability testing. These vendors participated in the third Liberty Interoperable full-matrix testing event to be administered by the Drummond Group Inc., and the first event to test products against the new eGovernment SAML 2.0 profile v1.5 recently released by Liberty Alliance. Web-based full-matrix testing allows vendors to participate from anywhere in the world and features rigorous processes for ensuring products meet SAML 2.0 interoperability requirements for open, secure and privacy-respecting federated identity management.</p>
<p>This year's program featured enhanced SAML 2.0 testing scenarios between Service Provider (SP) and Identity Provider (IdP). The eGovernment SAML 2.0 profile and its requisite test plan have been developed by Liberty Alliance with input from the Danish, New Zealand and US governments. Testing processes for the eGovernment profile included multiple SP logout scenarios, requested authentication context comparisons, and other aspects of SAML 2.0 necessary to meet interoperability, privacy, security and transparency requirements in the global eGovernment sector. A review of the SAML 2.0 v1.5 eGovernment profile is <a href="http://tinyurl.com/y9geb94">available online</a>. </p>
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<a name="5">SPOTLIGHT ON EVE MALER</a>
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<p>Eve is Chair of the User-Managed Access (UMA) Work Group. In addition, Eve served as the Project Concordia Chair/community leader for the last number of years. She was also the first Leadership Council Secretary of Kantara Initiative.</p>
<p>Eve is a Distinguished Engineer in PayPal