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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></BR><BR></BR>
We encourage you to forward this to your colleagues. </P>
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FEATURES THIS MONTH
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<LI><A href="#1" mce_href="#1">MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT</A></LI>
<LI><A href="#2" mce_href="#2">CURRENT FORMED GROUPS</A></LI>
<LI><A href="#3" mce_href="#3">UPDATE FROM A FEW DISCUSSION AND WORK GROUPS FROM RECENT MEETING</A></LI>
<LI><A href="#4" mce_href="#4">INTEROP TEST RESULTS</A></LI>
<LI><A href="#5" mce_href="#5">SPOTLIGHT ON EVE MALER</A></LI>
<LI><A href="#6" mce_href="#6">IDDY AWARDS</A></LI>
<LI><A href="#7" mce_href="#7">BLOG HOTSPOT</A></LI>
<LI><A href="#8" mce_href="#8">SOCIAL NETWORKING</A></LI>
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<LI><A href="#10" mce_href="#10">UPCOMING EVENTS</A></LI>
<LI><A href="#11" mce_href="#11">SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES</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" mce_href="../../../../../../../../../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