Reorganization Vision Recommendation

Status

LC Approved on October 8, 2014. Presented to the Trustees on October 9th, 2014.

Summary:

At a recent Board of Trustees (BoT) meeting, the Leadership Council (LC) recently raised discussion around WG and DG reporting structure in an effort to further engage the LC in the organizational planning and activities.  The BoT recommended that the LC should engage all WG & DG leaders to determine if the structure of the organization may benefit from a review and refinement. The BoT also recognized that any possible merging of WGs & DGs will require a review of IPR and process to manage potential risks.  Areas of impact to IPR are under the authority of the BoT.  Thus the request for LC recommendation focuses toward a visualization of Kantara Initiative working structure rather than mechanics and process of merging WGs & DGs intellectual property.

Goal:

The goal of the LC WG/DG structure review is to produce a recommendation of reorganization to the BoT for consideration.

The LC recommendation may include approaches such as:

  • Convergence and merging of one or more WGs & DGs
  • Collection of specific WGs & DGs as "affiliated" under specific themes
  • A combination of both convergence and affiliation approaches
  • Another approach that is not listed above.

Themes:

The LC suggested the following two themes:

  • Connected Life: focusing on access management, identities of things, consent and notice, and identity relationship management.
  • Trust Services: focusing on scenarios that benefit from verification of services for both technology and policy deployment further enabling a trusted layer of interactions.

Key Consideration:

The LC made a specific note to advise that it suggests special consideration to IPR implications with regard to varying IPR under a particular theme.  This could be related to any future desire to merge groups.  A recommendation was made that it may be interesting to query new groups regarding the "firmness" of their initial IPR policy selection.

Table Header Key:

The table below captures current "metadata" associated with Kantara Initiative WGs & DGs.

  • ACTIVE is noted by if the group is having conference calls, using their email list, producing output
  • IPR is from the group charter
  • PROGRAM notes if the group is connected to the Assurance or Interop programs developments
  • INNOVATION notes if the group is working in a leading edge space where this work is not connected to a program
  • SCOPE rough estimate of where the group focuses most between technology and policy (sometimes both)
  • MEMBER OFFICER tied to developing discussions within the Board of Trustees seeking to understand if there is one Member officer in each group leadership.
CURRENT STATUS
Work GroupsActiveIPRProgramInnovationTechPolicyMember OfficerPoint of Contact
Cloud Identity and Security Best PracticesYESOPT-OUT RANDNOYESNOYESNONeil McEvoy (NO)
eGovernmentYESCC-SAYESNONOYESYESRainer Hoerbe (IC)
Federation InteroperabilityYESCC-SAYESNOYESNOYESJohn Bradley (PING)
Health Identity Assurance NOCC-SAYESNONOYESYESPete Palmer (MedAllies)
Identity AssuranceYESOPT-OUT RANDYESNONOYESYESRich Furr (Verizon)
Identity Relationship ManagementYESCC-SANOYESYESYESYESSal D'Agostino (IC)
Consent and Information SharingYESOPT-OUT RANDYESYESYESYESNOJoe Andrieu (NO)
JapanNOCC-SANONONONONOYamada Tatsushi (NO)
Trust Framework Meta ModelNOCC-SANOYESNOYESYESRainer Hoerbe (IC)
User Managed Access YESOPT-OUT RANDYESYESYESYESYESEve Maler (Forgerock)
Discussion GroupsActiveIPRProgramInnovationTechPolicyMember OfficerPoint of Contact
Business Cases for Trusted FederationNOCC-SANONOYESYESYESRainer Hoerbe (IC)
Identities of ThingsYESCC-SANOYESYESYESYESIngo Friese (Deutche Telekom)
AFFILIATED GROUPS - PROPOSED
Connected LifeActiveIPRProgramInnovationTechPolicyMember OfficerPoint of Contact
Identity Relationship ManagementYESCC-SANOYESYESYESYESSal D'Agostino (IC)
Identities of ThingsYESCC-SANOYESYESYESYESIngo Friese (Deutche Telekom)
User Managed Access YESOPT-OUT RANDYESYESYESYESYESEve Maler (Forgerock)
Consent and Information SharingYESOPT-OUT RANDYESYESYESYESNOJoe Andrieu (NO)
Trust ServicesActiveIPRProgramInnovationTechPolicyMember OfficerPoint of Contact
Identity AssuranceYESOPT-OUT RANDYESNONOYESYESRich Furr (Verizon)
eGovernmentYESCC-SAYESNONOYESYESRainer Hoerbe (IC)
Federation InteroperabilityYESCC-SAYESNOYESNOYESJohn Bradley (PING)
Health Identity Assurance NOCC-SAYESNONOYESYESPete Palmer (MedAllies)
Cloud Identity and Security Best PracticesYESOPT-OUT RANDNOYESNOYESNONeil McEvoy (NO)
Business Cases for Trusted FederationNOCC-SANONONOYESYESRainer Hoerbe (IC)
Trust Framework Meta ModelNOCC-SANOYESNOYESYESRainer Hoerbe (IC)