Greetings folks

This is the running update from the Executive Director. Have questions or comments? Suggest some added information or edits? Contact the ED colin at kantarainitiative dot org.

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Hello everyone,

October started with another great conference - this time in London.  The GDPR Summit was a new effort, hosted by Kantara 'friends in mission' TheTrustBridge. 

Our next gig is the pre-conference workshop to curtain-raise Kuppinger Cole's Consumer Identity World Tour 2017 is in Paris, 27th November.  This promises to be a great event, with both speakers and registrations bulging.  We have such great teamwork amongst our European members and they certainly have not let us down in this instance. 

Thanks once again to sponsors Forgerock and Saviynt! 

Meanwhile, with the generous support of ID.me for supplying editing resources, work continues apace on the NIST SP 800-63-3 Service Assessment Criteria for identity & credential service providers whose solutions are utilized by relying parties online.  Consent Receipt topped our downloads this month, beating our regular winner, the Identity Assurance Framework document suite that underpins Kantara's Trust Framework Operations Program. As you browse the new content on that link, please take our Survey regarding your current or planned compliance with Identity Management related standards.  Help us to help you!

And on the Personal Data side of the house, the V1.1 of the Consent Receipt is near final, while accompanying GDPR-related new work items are being prepped and planned for announcement. The first of those will be the Consent Management Systems Best Practice work group, designed to draw in service providers in the space and converge their Best Practice, so if your organization is in this space, please look out for the announcement of the opening of this work group. Thank you members iWelcome and Digi.me for your directed funds to bring this most important work forward. 

If you want to firmly place your brand on the side of good, in an industry consortium that 'does' while others 'talk' then look no further than Kantara and its Sponsorships package here.   

Kind Regards,

Colin

Around the Houses:

Marketing:

• There is one remaining sponsorship package left for Kantara's exclusive triple event pre-conference workshop on the Consumer Identity World Tour 2017 as the circus heads to Singapore next month. Contact us if you want that spot for $4,999 beside Forgerock.

• You can always find us online: https://twitter.com/KantaraNews and https://twitter.com/UMAWG and https://twitter.com/KantaraCISWG. 

• Want to start a Kantara local chapter in your town? We are happy to help. Just Contact us.         

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.

• The Blockchain Smart Contracts Discussion Group's report has created high interest and lots of downloads.  Here's what one expert (who shall remain nameless) said;  "It was a pleasure to read, both well written and informative. (I’ve been reading a lot of BAD blockchain papers and articles lately ;-) ). The discussion of Smart Contracts is the best I’ve read. I’m going to pass it around to try to counter all the crazy Smart Contracts will solve all our problems talk going around the [entity redacted ] right now".  

• See all of our Specifications, Recommendations and Reports here and awaiting your download from our Reports and Recommendations web repository.   

• As always, if you have a query or question, staff are only too willing to assist.  Contact them via email.

Events: See them here! 

• Looking forward to seeing as amny of you as possible in Paris for Consumer Identity World '17 for November 27th, and if you are in the APAC region, see us in Singapore at the awesome Marina Bay Sands hotel on December 12th. Join us there, save money! Kantara has discounted pass codes available for both these events