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An observation: SSO's are consolidating and/or collaborating more
by Brett McDowell 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

This email notice prompted me to share an observation with this community list. CEN and CENELEC are essentially consolidating. FSTC & BITS have essentially consolidated (or are somewhere along in the process). Liberty Alliance & Concordia Project are consolidating into Kantara Initiative. Electronic Authentication Partnership & Raddichio consolidated with Liberty Alliance before that. OpenID Foundation & Information Card Foundation seem to be consolidating their trust framework activities into the OIF/OIE project/organization. OASIS is more directly involved with various "non-accredited industry consortia" than I've ever seen before. ISOC is investing time and dollars into Kantara Initiative and W3C (among others no doubt). There are probably other moves like this in the identity, security, and privacy space that I'm forgetting to mention or haven't actually stumbled upon yet. For discussion: why is this happening, and is it a good thing for standards development and/or adoption? It's no secret that standards setting organizations are feeling the impact of the economic downturn and consolidation is one of several options each group faces. Many of you subscribed to this mailing list are pretty close to several of these consolidation/cooperation projects. I hoping some of you will share your personal observations about how this strategy is working and where you think this is all headed -- is this trend going to reverse or continue? -- Brett Begin forwarded message: > > From: Penny Sarah [mailto:spenny@cencenelec.eu] > Sent: 11 February 2010 18:03 > To: Coop_all; CGF_Email List > Subject: CEN and CENELEC new email addresses > > > > > Dear Madam, > Dear Sir, > > The close collaboration between CEN and CENELEC, which was consolidated by the creation of a common CEN-CENELEC Management Centre (CCMC) at the beginning of this year, is now further reflected in our new e-mail address: flastname(a)cencenelec.eu. > > For example, if you wish to contact CCMC Communication Unit Manager, Elisabeth Brodthagen use ebrodthagen(a)cencenelec.eu > > Please make a note of our new email addresses and amend your contact lists accordingly. > > In attachment you will find the organization chart of the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre as well as a telephone and e-mail directory of all CCMC staff. > > Our postal address is: > > CEN-CENELEC Management Centre > Avenue Marnix 17 > B-1000 Brussels > > We would appreciate if you could distribute this email in your organisation. > > Should you have any enquiries, please send an e-mail to communication(a)cencenelec.eu. > > Best regards, > > Sarah PENNY > Director – External Relations >

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Kantara Initiative March News Round-Up
by Dervla O'Reilly 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

Catch the round up of recent updates from Kantara Initiative: Featuring Paul Trevithick, co-founder and co-chair of the Universal Login Experience (ULX) WG Announcing leadership of Kantara Initiative Work Groups: Consumer Identity WG, P3WG, Healthcare Identity Assurance WG, IdP Selection WG, Telecommunications Identity WG Public workshop: Making the world safe for user-managed access at EIC, May 4, Munich Kantara Initiative’s RSA Security Pre-Conference Workshop, March 1 2010 A round up of work from DG/WGs at the recent Kantara Initiative Conference in Oregon: Concordia, eGov,IdP Selection, ID-WSF Evo, TelCo ID, UMA Identity Assurance, an everyday life issue – articles from the IA WG Chair Concordia DG Authz and LOA Surveys Executive Director Search: Job Description Identity Matters: eGovernment Kantara Initiative’s UMA WG webinar: UMA explained – listen and watch the recording Identity Matters: User Managed Access Announcing Government of Canada Consultation on Cyber Authentication Identity Assurance WG testimony to Health IT Committee and NHIN Industry events – contact Dervla O’Reilly regarding discounted conference rates: Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit June 21-23 Maryland, Hacker Halted October 9-15 Miami, WHIT 6.0 Nov. 8-10 Washington D.C., Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit November 15-16 San Diego Feel free to forward to colleagues and friends. Cheers, Dervla ________________________ Dervla O’Reilly Program Manager Kantara Initiative +1 415 731 4487 business +1 415 948 3650 mobile +1 509 757 4487 fax dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org http://www.kantarainitiative.org

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Clique Space - an appeal for business support.
by Owen Thomas 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Hello people of the Kantara Initiative general community. I have been lurking here for some time. I have previously contributed. I have also been working on something that I have called Clique Space. My previous contributions to this mailing list have been in relation to this idea. I am now making a similar contribution. Clique Space models the real-time collaborative activity of individuals over any collaborative media one has engaged. While its ultimate implementation and general uptake is very ambitious, its core concept is so simple that I thought there was a buck to be made out of it. With this thought, I registered the concept as a PCT. The PCT will apparently expire in most jurisdictions on 15 July this year. I knew that the idea could never be realised by myself alone, but with a patent, I thought I might be in a position to elicit business support while also giving myself a chance of receiving recognition. Realising that such an ambitious concept may require a lot of work by many individuals, I would be more than willing to discuss an equitable quid-pro-quo that would see me receive some consideration for it as the concepts inventor. Up to now, I haven't been terribly successful at selling this idea possibly because I appear not to be the best at selling things. The PCT expiration date is looming, and I certainly do not have nearly enough available finance to cover national phase registration. So, with this letter, you are observing me as someone doing their utmost to give the idea its best chance of success before it falls out of his grasp and before it loses any prospect of being sellable. I think this concept is particularly versatile and useful; its necessary place in the world of identity management will inevitably become clear to others. So, I here appeal to anyone who reads this letter, and who is in a position particularly to offer financial support to get the patent over the hill of national phase registration, to respond to this email, or to call me directly on +61 401 493 433. I believe that you would not be doing yourself any harm in talking to me about any possibility of engagement. To give you the best idea of what Clique Space is meant to be, you should have a look at the bottom-most link I supply in my email signature below. I have plenty more material that I can share, so I believe I can answer most questions you may have. Thank you for your time and for your consideration, Owen. -- Radical collocation: look, just stop it! You're being ridiculous. www.cliquespace.net Clique Space(TM) Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=81335296379 Owen's Garden of Thought: http://owenpaulthomas.blogspot.com/ The Technical Position of the Clique Space Concept: http://telework.ning.com/forum/attachment/download?id=2143918%3AUploadedFil…

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RFP for Kantara Initiative Meeting mid Sept.-mid Nov. 2010
by Dervla O'Reilly 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

On behalf of Roger Sullivan. ********************************** Reporting out of our recent meeting in Portland the directive is that Kantara Initiative will hold our next meeting in Central Europe. We're exploring our options actively right now in looking for sponsors for this upcoming meeting. Meanwhile, members should flag this period on your calendars. We would like to have this meeting in the time frame of mid September to mid November this year. The attached RFP is for a meeting that would accommodate the Board of Trustees (BoT), Leadership Council (LC) as well as several work groups. Please respond directly to me if you might be able to host a meeting or know of a sponsor who could help. Cheers, Dervla ________________________ Dervla O’Reilly Program Manager Kantara Initiative +1 415 731 4487 business +1 415 948 3650 mobile +1 509 757 4487 fax dervla[at]kantarainitiative.org http://www.kantarainitiative.org ________________________ Dervla O’Reilly Program Manager Kantara Initiative +1 415 731 4487 business +1 415 948 3650 mobile +1 509 757 4487 fax dervla[at]kantarainitiative.org http://www.kantarainitiative.org

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Call for papers: The Sixth ACM Workshop on Digital Identity Management
by Kenji Takahashi 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Dear colleagues, Just an FYI. Kenji -- The Sixth ACM Workshop on Digital Identity Management October 8, 2010, Chicago, IL, USA. Collocated with ACM CCS 2010 http://www2.pflab.ecl.ntt.co.jp/dim2010 http://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2010/ Important dates * Paper submissions due : June 28, 2010 * Notification to the authors : August 6, 2010 * Camera ready papers due : August 16, 2010 (Firm deadline) * DIM Workshop : October 8, 2010 (CCS Conference : October 4 – 10, 2010) The Digital Identity Management Workshop brings together academia and industry to explore all aspects of identity management. Identity management is an endeavor to make identities available to humans, services, and systems in a secure and privacy-protecting manner. Currently we are facing grand challenges, such as financial and ecological crises, which require global collaboration. Best exemplified in the cloud computing and smart grid movement, ICT-enabled infrastructures are playing a crucial role in facilitating global collaboration for economic and ecological advancement. Such infrastructures must incorporate identity management capabilities that allow individuals and organizations to identify and trust each other over networks in a scalable and reliable manner, while striking the best balance between usability, security, and privacy. The goal of this workshop is to share new findings and ideas, discover key issues, and seek opportunities for active collaboration between industry and academia. The workshop seeks submissions from diverse communities, such as open source projects, standardization fora, government organizations, security and privacy experts, software engineers, and corporate & academic researchers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Identity management for cloud computing * Identity management for critical infrastructure (e.g., smart grid) * Identity assurance * Identity governance * Attribute aggregation * Identity in service-oriented architecture (SOA) * Anonymity and pseudonymity * Accountability in identity management * Identity management APIs * Identity management in ubiquitous and mobile computing * Reputation and incentive systems, and reputation management * Privacy-enhanced identity management * Identity solutions for specific areas (e.g., healthcare, government, education, and telecommunications) * Identity-based access control * Identity discovery * Identity theft prevention * User-centric identity management * User experience models and integrity * Standardization of IDM and policies thereof, standards harmonization * Case studies and lessons from large scale deployment * Vulnerabilities, threat analysis and risk assessment of IDM solutions (e.g., threat of malware affecting identity theft) * Analysis of differences between requirements for consumer and enterprise IDM ________________________ Submission Instructions Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers should be at most 10 pages, using at least 10.5-point font and reasonable margins on A4 or US letter-size paper (8.5 inch x 11 inch). Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so submissions should be intelligible without them. Each submission should start with the title, abstract, and names and contact information of authors. The introduction should give background and summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. _______________________ === Organizing Committee === Co-chairs * Thomas Groß, IBM Research, Switzerland * Kenji Takahashi, NTT, Japan ________________________ === Program Committee === * Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA * Abhilasha Bhargav-Spantzel, Intel, USA * Hu Bin, Huawei Technologies, USA * Federica Paci, University of Trento, Italy * Jan Camenisch, IBM Research, Switzerland * Marco Casassa Mont, HP Labs, UK * David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK * Chihung Chi, Tsinghua University, China * Hidehito Gomi, Yahoo! Japan Research, Japan * Weili Han, Fudan University, China * Seung-Hyun Kim, ETRI, Korea * Brian LaMacchia, Microsoft, USA * Hyung-Jin Lim, Financial Security Agency, Korea * Howard Lipson, CERT, USA * Paul Madsen, NTT, Canada * Eve Maler, PayPal, USA * Piotr Pacyna, AGH Univ. of Science and Technology, Poland * Andreas Pfitzmann, Dresden Univ. of Technology, Germany * Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Sun Microsystems, USA * Amardeo Sarma, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany * Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany * Diana Smetters, PARC, USA * Anna C. Squicciarini, Pennsylvania State Univ., USA * Tsuyoshi Takagi, Future University - Hakodate, Japan * Peter Weik, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

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Kantara welcomes new member Indiana University
by Dervla O'Reilly 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

Please join us in welcoming new member Indiana University. We look forward to her participation and involvement. Regards, Dervla ________________________ Dervla O’Reilly Program Manager Kantara Initiative +1 415 731 4487 business +1 415 948 3650 mobile +1 509 757 4487 fax dervla[at]kantarainitiative.org http://www.kantarainitiative.org

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US Time Change
by J. Trent Adams 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

All - As a reminder, the US shifted it's clocks over the weekend to reflect Daylight Savings Time. I'm guessing that most of you know this already, but I'm also betting that most haven't double-checked their call schedules... ... so, you might want to take this opportunity to double-check your calendar to ensure it accurately reflects the time change. In case it helps, here's a good tool for converting time between locations based on dates: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html Cheers, Trent -- J. Trent Adams =jtrentadams Profile: http://www.mediaslate.org/jtrentadams/ LinkedIN: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jtrentadams Twitter: http://twitter.com/jtrentadams

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Kantara Marketing Committee
by Roger Sullivan 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

Colleagues, In recent weeks, some of you have provided feedback on ways we could improve our marketing and public relations, ranging from our core messages to the website and wiki layout. The Trustees have also discussed this at length here in Hillsboro and resolved to form a Marketing subcommittee of those folks with interest, ideas and skills in this area, to carry ideas forward into reality. Please give this consideration. We are interested in having any willing participants - both those currently active in Kantara as well as others with marketing skills who are not yet involved. Please pass the message along to your colleagues and consider helping out. Marketing is critical to Kantara's perception both externally and internally. We have some truly great work going on, and we need to tell both the world and ourselves, all about it. Please express your interest by Monday 21st March so that we can make a start on this exciting and fulfilling endeavor. Thanks Roger Sullivan President -- HYPERLINK "http://www.oracle.com/" \nOracle Roger Sullivan | Vice President Phone: +1 781 744 0767 | Mobile: +1 978 828 3520 Oracle Identity Management 10 Van de Graaff Drive | Burlington, MA 01803 HYPERLINK "http://www.oracle.com/commitment" \nGreen Oracle Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment

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The Technical Position of the Clique Space Concept
by Owen Thomas 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

Hello people. I hope to indulge your interest for a short while on a report I have recently published on my impressions of how Clique Space would fit with other technologies such as OpenID. Please let me know what you think about this document, you'll find it at: http://telework.ning.com/forum/attachment/download?id=2143918%3AUploadedFil… . Thanks, Owen. -- www.cliquespace.net Clique Space(TM) Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=81335296379 Owen's Garden of Thought: http://owenpaulthomas.blogspot.com/

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Kantara Initiative welcomes new member Myisha Frazier-McElveen
by Dervla O'Reilly 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Please join us in welcoming new member Myisha Frazier-McElveen. Myisha's primary area of interests are with the Healthcare Identity Assurance and Identity Assurance WGs. We look forward to her participation and involvement. Regards, Dervla ________________________ Dervla O’Reilly Program Manager Kantara Initiative +1 415 731 4487 business +1 415 948 3650 mobile +1 509 757 4487 fax dervla[at]kantarainitiative.org http://www.kantarainitiative.org

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