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Spotlight on Maciej Machulak
by Dervla O'Reilly 23 Feb '11

23 Feb '11

Maciej Machulak is the Vice-Chair of the User-Managed Access Work Group (UMA WG). He has been actively involved in the group since July 2009 and plays an important role in the protocol specification as well as its implementation. Maciej originally comes from Poland where he finished his MSc in Computing Engineering. He was then an Erasmus Exchange Student at Newcastle University where he additionally completed the Advanced MSc degree in “System Design for Internet Applications” (SDIA) in 2007. His thesis was awarded the 2007 Best SDIA Thesis. Before moving to do his PhD, Maciej worked at Red Hat on transactional Web services for a year. Maciej’s PhD research is concerned with building a novel authorisation system for the Web, which would allow users to flexibly adapt access control settings to their Web resources to their particular security requirements. In late 2009, Maciej has also won funding for the SMART (Student-Managed Access to Online Resources) project from JISC. The project aims to build an UMA-based authorisation solution in Java and deploy this system within Newcastle University. This project has won the Kantara Initiative Identity Deployment of the Year (IDDY) 2011 Award for its efforts. Maciej’s interests include security, privacy, and trust on the Web. He is also very interested in writing reliable cloud-based Web applications. In his spare time, Maciej enjoys jogging and traveling around the beautiful North-East of England with his friends. Learn more about Maciej Machulak athttp://www.trust-economics.org/maciejm. ________________________ 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 Subscribe to the Kantara Initiative newsletter

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Kantara announces formation of the Open Source Support Initiative WG (OSSI WG)
by Dervla O'Reilly 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Kantara Initiative is happy to announce the formation of the Open Source Support Initiative WG (OSSI WG). Open Source Softwares share common benefits with open specifications and open standards. They are all business enablers by acting for interoperability and knowledge sharing. As such, supporting Open Source initiatives directly supports the Kantara Initiative mission of harmonization and interoperability. The OSSI WG will promote functional open source implementations related to digital identity management and associated paradigms (e.g., privacy and trust). The workgroup will also collect expectations and recommendations around open source, especially from other Kantara workgroups such as the eGovernment and Telecommunications Identity Work Groups. Finally, the OSSI WG will highlight gaps to identify issing open source implementations which are most needed. For more information on the OSSI WG, please visit the home page here: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/ossi/Home Join the Group: http://signup.kantarainitiative.org/?selectedGroup=28 Review the Charter: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/ossi/Charter Mail list and Archives: http://groups.google.com/group/wg-ossi Designated IPR Policy options for operation – Option Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/download/attachments/2293776/Kantar… ________________________ 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 Subscribe to the Kantara Initiative newsletter

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Kantara Initiative Announces Winners of the 2011 IDDY Award Winners
by Dervla O'Reilly 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

San Francisco, CA – February 14, 2011 — Kantara Initiative, a global identity community working to solve harmonization and interoperability challenges among identity-enabled enterprise, Web 2.0 and Cloud applications and services, today announced that two applications have won the 2011 IDDY (Identity Deployment of the Year) Award. The IDDY Deployment award winners are Newcastle University and National Institutes of Health iTrust. The IDDYs will be presented today at the Identity Collaboration Day jointly produced by Kantara Initiative and Identity Commons in San Francisco, CA. “As the speed of innovation accelerates in the Identity Management arena, new business models and use cases are emerging,” says Matthew Gardiner, Director CA Security Business & President, Kantara Initiative. “The IDDY Awards formally recognizes these innovations and their contributions to the digital identity management marketplace.” Now in its fifth year, the IDDY program has grown within Kantara Initiative to recognize the individuals and organizations developing identity-enabled applications built using any open identity technology. The IDDYs recognize two categories of achievement: ID Deployment and Emerging Applications. The ID Deployment category spotlights applications that are currently delivering significant and quantifiable identity management value to organizations and users. The Emerging Applications category showcases “up-and-coming” applications and proof-of-concepts driving the next generation of digital identity management solutions. Judges evaluated nominations based on criteria that include the benefits applications deliver to communities, businesses, governments and people; the ROI the application demonstrates; and how the solution may successfully address identity issues such as reducing identity theft, meeting regulatory requirements, and providing users with increased security and privacy protection. Winner in the ID Deployment Category: NIH iTrust “We are pleased to win the Deployment category as this means recognition of NIH’s leadership in accepting open standards-based third party identity credentials at US government websites,” said Debbi Bucci, NIH Integration Services Center Manager, Center for Information Technology (CIT). NIH iTrust is multi-protocol enterprise authentication service that allows users to access multiple applications with a single third-party user credential. NIH iTrust enables federated identity management, allowing users both within and outside of NIH to access multiple applications and data sources across agencies, using their local identity credentials. It provides application owners with an easy and secure way to authenticate users and control access to sensitive data by leveraging third-party SAML and OpenID based credentials. More information about the project is available at https://federation.nih.gov/itrust/ Winner in the Emerging Applications/Proof of Concept Category: Newcastle University “With the increased amount of services available on the Web, the end user is no longer able to easily control access to their distributed data and is often paying the price in both privacy and convenience” said Maciej Machulak who leads the SMART project. “User-Managed Access and SMART aim to provide a solution to this problem. These approaches allow people to apply the necessary security and privacy controls to their personal data while retaining all the benefits of social interactions and data sharing that the Web environment offers.” SMART solution is the first Java implementation of the User-Managed Access (UMA) protocol developed at Newcastle University as part of a JISC-funded project. It allows users to have centralised, flexible and fine-grained control over access to their personal information on the Web. Users define their sharing preferences at a single Authorization Manager using an intuitive user interface for creating identity-based and claims-based policies. Such sharing settings can be later applied to distributed data hosted by UMA-enabled Web applications, such as the online storage and gallery services provided as part of the SMART solution. More information about the project is available at http://smartjisc.wordpress.com and http://www.tinyurl.com/uma-wg About the Kantara Initiative 2011 IDDY Award Judging Panel The IDDY Awards judging panel is comprised of ten identity management and privacy and policy experts from around the globe, working collectively to evaluate applications that follow specified judging criteria: - J. Trent Adams, Trust and Identity Outreach Specialist, Internet Society - Bob Bragdon, Publisher, CSO Magazine - Philippe Clement, Head of Identity Marketing, Orange – FT - Matthew Gardiner, Director CA Security Business & Kantara Initiative President - Gerry Gebel, President, Axiomatics - Leif Johansson, Systems Specialist at NORDUnet & SUNET - Nate Klinginstein, Senior Technical Analyst, Internet2 - Martin Kuppinger, Founder and Principle Analyst, Kuppinger, Cole & Partner - Nat Sakimura, Senior Researcher, NRI - Don Thibeau, Chairman, OIX About Kantara Initiative Kantara Initiative is a global, open, public-private, technology- agnostic forum comprised of identity ecosystem stakeholders. Its inspired mission is to promote technical interoperability and harmonization; to develop policy frameworks for operational interoperability and to provide certification and assessment programs to grow trust in the standards, products, and service deployments. For more information about getting involved in Kantara Initiative, visit http://kantarainitiative.org/ ### Media Contact Joni Brennan Kantara Initiative joni(a)kantarainitiative.org +1 732-226-4223 ________________________ 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 Subscribe to the Kantara Initiative newsletter

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Community - who will be at RSA and ID Collab Day?
by Joni Brennan 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Dear Kantara Community, We'd love to know who from our community plans to be in San Francisco next week for Identity Collaboration Day and/or for RSA. Please let us know so we can get an idea who will attend. - If you've not already registered for Identity Collaboration Day - or you'd like to see who is attending (so far) please visit this page: - http://idcolab.eventbrite.com/ - If you're attending, and might like to catch up outside of formal meetings please feel free to use this thread to let your community know you'll be there. - I'll also get started by confirming I'll be at Identity Collaboration Day and in town for the rest of the week as well. Hope to see you there! =Joni Joni Brennan IEEE-ISTO Kantara Initiative | Executive Director voice:+1 732-226-4223 email: joni @ ieee-isto.org gtalk: jonibrennan skype: upon request Join the conversation on the community@ list - http://kantarainitiative.org/mailman/listinfo/community

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Federation Operator Guidelines Announcement
by Anna Ticktin 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

(On behalf of Eve Maler, Kantara Initiative Leadership Council Secretary) Kantara Community, We are happy to announce that the Federation Operator Guidelines (FOG) Version 1.0 has passed the All-Member Ballot and is now an official Kantara Initiative Recommendation! This document provides guidelines for an identity federation operator, an entity that defines and oversees a collective of cooperating credential service providers and relying parties. If you want to get a better understanding of the FOG Recommendation, the document can be found on the Kantara Initiative site. Congratulations to the Identity Assurance Work Group (IAWG) and it’s members for their diligent work in completing this Recommendation! And thanks to all who voted—this is a major milestone for Kantara Initiative with more to come in 2011. Kind regards, Eve Maler

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Re: [Kantara - Community] Community Digest, Vol 22, Issue 3
by Salvatore D'Agostino 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

I will be at both. I look forward to seeing you (all) there. Salvatore D'Agostino, CSCIP IDmachines LLC 1264 Beacon Street, #5 Brookline, MA 02446 +1 617.201.4809 mobile +1 617.812.6495 fax http://www.idmachines.com http://idmachines.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/#!/IDmachines -----Original Message----- From: community-bounces(a)kantarainitiative.org [mailto:community-bounces@kantarainitiative.org] On Behalf Of community-request(a)kantarainitiative.org Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:11 AM To: community(a)kantarainitiative.org Subject: Community Digest, Vol 22, Issue 3 Send Community mailing list submissions to community(a)kantarainitiative.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://kantarainitiative.org/mailman/listinfo/community or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to community-request(a)kantarainitiative.org You can reach the person managing the list at community-owner(a)kantarainitiative.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Community digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Community - who will be at RSA and ID Collab Day? (Joni Brennan) 2. Re: Community - who will be at RSA and ID Collab Day? (j stollman) 3. Re: Community - who will be at RSA and ID Collab Day? (Colin Wallis) 4. Re: Community - who will be at RSA and ID Collab Day? (philippe.clement(a)orange-ftgroup.com) 5. Re: Community - who will be at RSA and ID CollabDay? (Brian Dilley) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 15:40:16 -0800 From: Joni Brennan <joni(a)ieee-isto.org> Subject: [Kantara - Community] Community - who will be at RSA and ID Collab Day? To: community <community(a)kantarainitiative.org> Message-ID: <AANLkTi=L0J2c0+A+-GaLSqNfFcXkk+VGOk7aubasa3uc(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Kantara Community, We'd love to know who from our community plans to be in San Francisco next week for Identity Collaboration Day and/or for RSA. Please let us know so we can get an idea who will attend. - If you've not already registered for Identity Collaboration Day - or you'd like to see who is attending (so far) please visit this page: - http://idcolab.eventbrite.com/ - If you're attending, and might like to catch up outside of formal meetings please feel free to use this thread to let your community know you'll be there. - I'll also get started by confirming I'll be at Identity Collaboration Day and in town for the rest of the week as well. Hope to see you there! =Joni Joni Brennan IEEE-ISTO Kantara Initiative | Executive Director voice:+1 732-226-4223 email: joni @ ieee-isto.org gtalk: jonibrennan skype: upon request Join the conversation on the community@ list - http://kantarainitiative.org/mailman/listinfo/community

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A presentation on Authentication and Authorization in Finland
by Dervla O'Reilly 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Hear how citizens, higher education and companies do business with the government in Finland. The audio and PDF slides details citizen authentication, attributes, identity providers and various levels of authentication and authorization. We are happy to share this special presentation deriving from the current work of Kantara Initiative’s eGovernment Work Group. Many thanks to Keith Uber, Product Manager, Ubisecure Solutions, Inc. for this presentation. ________________________ 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 Subscribe to the Kantara Initiative newsletter

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New Member Benefit: Liaison Sub-Committee - ISO Docs Review
by Joni Brennan 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

Dear Kantara Initiative Community, This message is to announce the formation of a new Board of Trustee Sub-Committee - the Liaison Sub-Committee. This sub-committee performs reviews of CONFIDENTIAL documents submitted by external organizations including: ISO, ITU-T, OASIS, and more. Who may join: - Kantara Initiative Members - Leadership Council Members How to join: - Provided that you are a Kantara Initiative Member or Leadership Council Member you may join the sub-committee by filling out the sign up form here: http://signup.kantarainitiative.org/liaison-sub-committee/ - Once staff confirms your sign up your account will get special permission to access documents here: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/lsc/Home Take note that the documents submitted to this sub-committee are CONFIDENTIAL and, as such, all discussions regarding these documents are also CONFIDENTIAL to comply with the conditions set by external organizations. We are pleased to bring our Members this sub-committee opportunity as a new benefit to your Kantara Initiative Membership. We look forward to your participation in the new BoT Liaison Sub-Committee! Additionally, there is a current set of CONFIDENTIAL documents submitted by ISO SC27/WG5 regarding projects: 29100, 29101, 29190, 24760, 29115, 29146, and 29191 for Kantara Initiative Member review and comment. Comments are due in advance of March 10 2011. Note: the Liaison Sub-Committee may schedule teleconferences as needed to coordinate responses for submission back to originating organizations. Should you have any questions or concerns regarding this new Membership Benefit please don't hesitate to reach out to me directly. =Joni Joni Brennan IEEE-ISTO Kantara Initiative | Executive Director voice:+1 732-226-4223 email: joni @ ieee-isto.org gtalk: jonibrennan skype: upon request Join the conversation on the community@ list - http://kantarainitiative.org/mailman/listinfo/community

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New Member Benefit: ByLaws Updated for Organizational Member Board of Trustee Election
by Joni Brennan 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

Dear Kantara Initiative Community, This note is to announce that on January 27th, 2011, the Board of Trustees voted by super majority to amend the Kantara Initiative ByLaws to add a new Member benefit for Kantara Initiative Organizational Members. The added ByLaw section 4.1.3 below [1] captures the new benefit in specific detail. In summary, Organizational Members will now have the benefit to be elected by your peers to a seat(s) on the Board of Trustees for a term that ends on December 31st of each calendar year. Shortly following, Organizational Members will be informed of how to take advantage of this new benefit. We hope that this new benefit will provide additional value to your Kantara Initiative Organizational Membership. Should you have any questions regarding the new benefit, or would like to express interest in participation right away, please feel free to contact me directly. [1] 4.1.3 - At Large Trustees - Two (2) members of the Trustees may be elected from the existing organizational members that are L0, L1, L2, or L3 members and are not already trustees. The term of these Trustees will be for one (1) calendar year and will expire at the end of each year on December 31st. The procedure for the election of these trustees will be determined and overseen by the Trustees, except that that all current members that are L0, L1, L2, AND L3 levels will have only one (1) vote per organization and that the top two (2) vote getters will be elected. There is no limit as to the number of terms that these organizations may serve as Trustees. If either or both elected Trustee organizations should resign or vacate their position before the end of their term, the Trustees may initiate an election to fill the remaining time of the term(s). [2] All Kantara Initiative Policies are located here: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/x/owVAAg Best Regards, =Joni Joni Brennan IEEE-ISTO Kantara Initiative | Executive Director voice:+1 732-226-4223 email: joni @ ieee-isto.org gtalk: jonibrennan skype: upon request Join the conversation on the community@ list - http://kantarainitiative.org/mailman/listinfo/community

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Kantara Initiative Scheduled Maintenance on January 25, 3:00-3:30 PM Pacific
by Oliver Maerz 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

In an effort to provide a reliable and secure Kantara Initiative Wiki we will update our wiki software, tomorrow (Tuesday, January 25, 2011). This update will require about 30 minutes of downtime of the Kantara Initiative Wiki (http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/) Downtime will begin at: 3:00 PM Pacific (6:00 PM Eastern) Downtime will end at: 3:30 PM Pacific (6:30 PM Eastern) Oliver Maerz - Project Management, Software Engineering & System Administration Casilla 652 | 5550000 Puerto Varas | Chile | Tel: +56 (65) 569333 Web | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | Xing | Skype

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Re: [Kantara - Community] Kantara Initiative Summit at EIC Conference, Munich May 10, 2011
by Dervla O'Reilly 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

I'm follow up regarding the Kantara Initiative Summit at the EIC Conference May 10 in Munich. I'd like to develop a list serve dedicated to those interested in the planning of the Summit. Those of you not directly addressed on this distribution that would like to join the list serve, please let me know directly. Topics of interest thus far: Trust frameworks The new German ID card and its use for online ID verification & its potential as an IdP Information Sharing and Individual-centric trust frameworks As a reminder, EIC have graciously offered a discount to Kantara members & Trustees towards the EIC Conference registration fee - please contact me direct for the code. 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 Subscribe to the Kantara Initiative newsletter > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Dervla O'Reilly <dervla(a)kantarainitiative.org> >> Date: November 17, 2010 11:36:24 AM PST >> To: community(a)kantarainitiative.org >> Cc: staff list <staff(a)kantarainitiative.org>, Kantara Leadership >> Council Kantara <LC(a)kantarainitiative.org>, "Kantara Trustees (E- >> mail)" <trustees(a)kantarainitiative.org> >> Subject: Kantara Initiative Summit at EIC Conference, Munich May >> 10, 2011 >> >> Kantara is planning a one-day Summit on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at >> the EIC Conference in Munich. >> >> We're gauging interest from those who plan to attend the EIC >> Conference and of those, who is interested to host and participate >> in a session at the Summit. >> >> We welcome your input for topics, theme, etc. Initial thoughts: >> Trust Frameworks, User community vs. Enterprise... >> >> Below is a suggested outline agenda to start the conversation: >> >> Suggested agenda: >> 9-9:15 Breakfast & welcome >> 9:15-9:30 Introduction >> 9:30-10:15 KI Session 1 >> 10:15-11:00 KI Session 2 >> 11:00-11:45 KI Session 3 >> 11:45-12:15 Lunch >> 12:15-1:00 Open Session for members/partners >> 1:00-1:45 Open Session for members/partners >> 1:45 Review & closing comments >> >> EIC have graciously offered a discount to Kantara members & >> Trustees towards the EIC Conference registration fee Please >> contact me directly for these details. >> >> Cheers, >> Dervla >> ________________________ >> Dervla O’Reilly >> Program Manager >> Kantara Initiative >> +1 415 731 4487 business >> +1 415 948 3650 mobile >> +1 415 202 5212 Skype >> +1 509 757 4487 fax >> dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org >> http://www.kantarainitiative.org >> > > _______________________________________________ > LC mailing list > LC(a)kantarainitiative.org > http://kantarainitiative.org/mailman/listinfo/lc

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Re: [Kantara - Community] [community] an interesting question
by Frank Wray 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

I am not sure if I agree completely... Americans have a history of not trusting government, and as a matter of fact, America was born on the notion of the lack of trust in government. The media uses that to sell their product. But, Identity should not be treated as a government issue, nation issue, but a user-centric issue in an Internet connected world (global). Each user is the owner of their identity and each user should have the ability to provide the information that they want to provide when they engage in an Internet transaction (sharing information included) and maintain the anonymity when desired. NSTIC was misrepresented by the mainstream media, but the root of the issue is the name. We cannot have a Nation-centric identity eco-system in a global Internet. One of the beauties of the Internet is the lack of borders. A global initiative where governments, the private sector and user communities as interested parties build the trust framework and use some or one of the current trust framework initiatives out there. And I am not suggesting that NSTIC is necessarily nation-centric, but the name leads to that believe. I also believe that the misrepresentation of the media is actually a good thing. This will not necessarily "kill" the initiative it will improve it and maybe even "globalize it" as I have suggested. So, let's keep the conversation going... :) ----- Original Message ----- From: Tony Rutkowski Sent: 01/12/11 08:43 AM To: Drummond Reed Subject: [community] an interesting question The treatment of personal IdM in the U.S. is shaped in substantial measure by a messaging by the media and lobbying community that conveys a hostility to government - some of it extreme - where the government is always painted in negative terms. It is a perspective almost unknown elsewhere in the world. That perspective is reflected in some of the NSTIC dialogue last week. Has the calculus changed by recent events? --amr ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: community(a)lists.idcommons.net To be removed from the list, send any message to: community-unsubscribe(a)lists.idcommons.net For all list information and functions, see: http://lists.idcommons.net/lists/info/community

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Request for participation in a new Claims Agent WG
by Paul Trevithick 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

A new working group is in the process of being formed at Identity Commons. You can see the proposed charter here: http://wiki.idcommons.net/Claims_Agent_Charter As I hope is clear, the intent is to incorporate, build on, and add value to the work of many other existing efforts in the interest of both efficiency and reducing fragmentation of technologies in this space. This effort is initially focused on a fairly narrow scenario: Claims come from government, health and education sources and are verified by some source-dependent means Supported RPs include those at the same institutions that provided the claims, different agencies at different levels of governments and across national borders, as well as commercial organizations. Claims are exchanged in a way that helps protect the privacy of the citizen and security requirements of the claims provider (specific mechanisms employed depend on the scenario). If that scenario is of interest to you, please consider adding your name to the list near the bottom of the charter. You need only an OpenID to do so. Paul.

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White House Advances "Trusted Identities" Program
by Rob Marano 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

Hey Guys, Hope this finds you all well... Have you heard about this "Trusted Identities" program? FYI http://www.darkreading.com/authentication/167901072/security/privacy/229000… Since I had not seen anyone comment or raise this in our group, I wanted to reach out and get the collective opinion of this... This sounds very much like what we were up to in the Liberty Alliance Program, now Kantara... I am not really sure what/why the US Govt is trying to do here given that the industry is already working to do this, and have been for quite a while. Are they going to "choose" one system and mandate it within its physical borders? Is this a mess waiting to happen or can it ever be "real, effective, and scaleable?" Inquiring minds need to know. -- Rob Marano (E) robmarano(a)gmail.com Arnold H. Glasow - "Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time."

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Identity Collaboration Day, February 14, 2011, San Francisco
by Dervla O'Reilly 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

RSA is approaching fast so we are reaching out to let you know about an event that Identity Commons and Kantara Initiative are co-hosting off-site on the day before RSA, February 14. What: Identity Collaboration Day - Across User-Centric, Enterprise and Government Identity Initiatives. We are partnering with the producers of the Internet Identity Workshop for an interactive collaborative day. Similarly to that event the agenda will be created by attendees on the day of the event. Our experience with this format has been one of intense dialogue and discussion moving real work forward. With the ongoing efforts lead by the federal government and agencies there will be much to talk about how they relate to enterprise and user-centric identity. This event is complementary to RSA. Due to the many different activities happening on the Monday before RSA, we have divided the day into 2 distinct sessions – morning and afternoon. Tickets are available for the entire day or for just the Morning or Afternoon session. Agenda creation will happen a second time just after lunch at the beginning of the Afternoon session. When: February 14, 2011, 8am - 6pm Where: The venue is in downtown San Francisco, just a short walking distance, cab or subway ride from the RSA Convention Center at Black Light Ventures 1543 Mission Street, San Francisco. Registration details: Early bird ticket prices are in effect until January 14 - http://idcolab.eventbrite.com/ Announcement details: http://kantarainitiative.org/wordpress/2010/12/identity-collaboration-day-f… ________________________ 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 Subscribe to the Kantara Initiative newsletter

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Re: [Kantara - Community] White House Advances "Trusted Identities" Program
by Popowycz, Alex 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Kantara (among many others) has been involved with this effort as it has evolved in its origin (formerly known as NSSOT or National Strategy for Security Online Transactions). I believe largely due to feedback provided by Kantara (and its members) the strategy was renamed to the more appropriate NSTIC. The search on the Kantara site show where the conversation has been held relative to NSTIC (http://www.google.com/search?sitesearch=kantarainitiative.org&q=nstic) most notably within the Health ID WG and the IAF WG. Kantara issued a formal letter and comments during the "open" period when the draft of the NSTIC was out for comment during the summer of 2010. I believe the tenor of the feedback was aligned with Rob's opening questions insomuch that a lot of work has already been undertaken in this space and there doesn't need to be an independent government effort along the same lines. Cheers Alex From: community-bounces(a)kantarainitiative.org<mailto:community-bounces@kantarainitiative.org> [mailto:community-bounces@kantarainitiative.org]<mailto:[mailto:community-bounces@kantarainitiative.org]> On Behalf Of Walsh, Alan J Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 1:58 PM To: Rob Marano; community(a)lists.idcommons.net<mailto:community@lists.idcommons.net>; community(a)kantarainitiative.org<mailto:community@kantarainitiative.org> Subject: Re: [Kantara - Community] White House Advances "Trusted Identities" Program There was a conference call yesterday to discuss, and another one is planned for Wednesday I believe. See this page for notes from the first call and details about the next one: http://wiki.idcommons.net/NSTIC -Alan From: community-bounces(a)kantarainitiative.org<mailto:community-bounces@kantarainitiative.org> [mailto:community-bounces@kantarainitiative.org]<mailto:[mailto:community-bounces@kantarainitiative.org]> On Behalf Of Rob Marano Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 1:39 PM To: community(a)lists.idcommons.net<mailto:community@lists.idcommons.net>; community(a)kantarainitiative.org<mailto:community@kantarainitiative.org> Subject: [Kantara - Community] White House Advances "Trusted Identities" Program Hey Guys, Hope this finds you all well... Have you heard about this "Trusted Identities" program? FYI http://www.darkreading.com/authentication/167901072/security/privacy/229000… Since I had not seen anyone comment or raise this in our group, I wanted to reach out and get the collective opinion of this... This sounds very much like what we were up to in the Liberty Alliance Program, now Kantara... I am not really sure what/why the US Govt is trying to do here given that the industry is already working to do this, and have been for quite a while. Are they going to "choose" one system and mandate it within its physical borders? Is this a mess waiting to happen or can it ever be "real, effective, and scaleable?" Inquiring minds need to know. -- Rob Marano (E) robmarano(a)gmail.com<mailto:robmarano@gmail.com> Arnold H. Glasow - "Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time."

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Kantara Initiative welcomes new member Greg Turner
by Dervla O'Reilly 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Please join us in welcoming new member Greg Turner. We look forward to Greg's participation and involvement. 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 Subscribe to the Kantara Initiative newsletter

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Post NSTIC Stanford event meetup
by Kaliya 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Hi everyone, I am going to work on finding a place for those of us attending the event at Stanford on Friday in person can go and get lunch and talk about what we heard/learned. I can figure out will post it here. (if you are more local to Standford then I am and have ideas let me know off list). Maybe some of us can bring our laptops and blog/post about it after we talk. It may also be good to have a phone call Monday to debrief people who were not able to attend in person. Mary can we use the IC Bridge for that? A GREAT opportunity to discuss and collaborate on all that is happening is the ID Collaboration Day happening Feb 14th pre-RSA - http://idcolab.eventbrite.com . -Kaliya

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Identity Collaboration Day, February 14, 2011, San Francisco
by Dervla O'Reilly 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

RSA is approaching fast so we are reaching out to let you know about an event that Identity Commons and Kantara Initiative are co-hosting off-site on the day before RSA, February 14. What: Identity Collaboration Day - Across User-Centric, Enterprise and Government Identity Initiatives. We are partnering with the producers of the Internet Identity Workshop for an interactive collaborative day. Similarly to that event the agenda will be created by attendees on the day of the event. Our experience with this format has been one of intense dialogue and discussion moving real work forward. With the ongoing efforts lead by the federal government and agencies there will be much to talk about how they relate to enterprise and user-centric identity. This event is complementary to RSA. Due to the many different activities happening on the Monday before RSA, we have divided the day into 2 distinct sessions – morning and afternoon. Tickets are available for the entire day or for just the Morning or Afternoon session. Agenda creation will happen a second time just after lunch at the beginning of the Afternoon session. When: February 14, 2011, 8am - 6pm Where: The venue is in downtown San Francisco, just a short walking distance, cab or subway ride from the RSA Convention Center at Black Light Ventures 1543 Mission Street, San Francisco. Registration details: Early bird ticket prices are in effect until January 10 - http://idcolab.eventbrite.com/ Announcement details: http://kantarainitiative.org/wordpress/2010/12/identity-collaboration-day-f… ________________________ 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 Subscribe to the Kantara Initiative newsletter

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Webcast of Today's NSTIC Meeting in Silicon Valley
by Bob Pinheiro 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Today's NSTIC meeting at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET / 1900 UTC is being webcast. The link is: http://www.ebmcdn.net/nist/html/nist-010710/index.html - BP -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Kantara - Community] FYI - NSTIC Meeting in Silicon Valley on Friday Jan 7 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 11:47:55 -0800 From: Joni Brennan <joni(a)ieee-isto.org> To: community <community(a)kantarainitiative.org> This meeting may be of interest to many on this list. If you are planning to attend please do let us know as Kantara would kindly seek a short summary from the meeting. In case you happen to be near Stanford on Friday the 7th, there's a short NSTIC overview meeting: ----- Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and cybersecurity czar Howard Schmidt are slated to head out to Stanford this Friday to offer insight on the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. They'll join a slew of industry leaders - including the CEOs from McAfee and TechAmerica, one of the event's hosts - to discuss what's next for the draft proposal the administration released this summer. (Look for a final version of it to arrive early this winter, with the president perhaps receiving the report before President's Day.) ----- For details and to register: http://www.techamerica.org/nstic Best Regards, Joni

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Message from Kantara Initiative President - Welcome to 2011
by Joni Brennan 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

(Sent on the behalf of Matthew Gardiner (CA), Kantara Initiative President) Welcome to 2011. We hope you are now well rested and ready to push forward in our joint quest to make a more secure and trusted Internet easier for everyone. Going into 2011 the Kantara Initiative, now almost two years old, has some good things going that we need to expand upon as well as some challenges that we as a group all need to do our part to mitigate. On the plus side, the market continues to be our friend. More and more people are recognizing the central role of identity online, in particular with the rise of public clouds. The continued rise of the federated identity model in such programs as NSTIC in the U.S. Government and the Cyber Authentication Program in the Canadian government shows clearly the value of the federated model. Where the Internet is heading comes right through the issues that we at Kantara are leading on and have been for some time – trust, privacy, interoperability – to name a few areas. A bit more practically, we also enter 2011 with a small but committed staff led by Joni that continues to catalyze the organization’s work products. We are very unique as an organization to *not* rely on volunteers for * everything* we do. We however need to continue to be mindful of the balance as ultimately the core work needs to continue to materialize mostly through volunteer efforts. But it is very nice to have a reliable, expert, and readily-enabled staff to push us along and make the work progress more efficiently. Also we have great global participation in Kantara, covering North America, Europe, and Asia (in particular Japan). This is incredibly important for the type of work we do and an important advantage that Kantara has. The Paris meeting in October 2010 was the most recent example of our global perspective and participation in action. I should note that we already have confirmed a meeting in Germany May 16-18 hosted by our colleagues at the Fraunhofer Institute. For those based in North America we are also tentatively planning for a Fall meeting in the Washington D.C. area later in the year. We also have a continually expanding Discussion & Work Group roster, with the most recent additions of the Business Cases for Trusted Federations DG and the European Use Case and Market DG. And finally, in an effort to continue to expand the value of membership and the footprint of Kantara within our members’ own organizations, the Board of Trustees are currently working on a bylaw update that will create 2 new annually elected spots on the board open to all organizational members. You will hear more about this once the bylaw change has been approved and the election process has been kicked off. Start giving some thought as to whether your organization would like to run for one of the two “at-large” Board of Trustees seats. Now to the challenges. Three key ones that I see are financial, people resources, and awareness. Your first response probably is, “doesn’t every organization have these problems”? Of course this is true, but we still need to move the needle on them. Regarding finances, you should know that the Board of Trustees just passed our 2011 budget and it was a tough one. We have cut what we think it is reasonable to cut while staying vibrant, we aren’t funding projects as much as we would like, and we are still spending in deficit (no we aren’t borrowing money, we are spending down our surplus). Obviously, unless you are government, deficit spending can’t go on for long (and it can’t for them either actually) so we need to find more revenue so that we can fund even more projects in 2011 and beyond. We have partly addressed this funding challenge by approving a 10% across the board increase in membership fees for 2011. Obviously for the long term health of the organization we need more paying members (not existing members paying more), more externally funded projects, and more revenue from programs such as the assurance and interoperability certification programs. One action for you to take for 2011 is if you aren’t currently a paying member, please become one. If you are already a paying member, please consider upgrading to the Trustee level. Another action would be to locate finances within your organization that you can bring forward to fund a project though Kantara. FYI, as part of the 2011 budget we did set aside some funds against which the Leadership Council approved projects can seek to get matching funds. On the people resources issue, we need more identity experts of all types participating actively in more Kantara groups. An action you can take right now is to ask one person that isn’t already active in Kantara in your organization to take an active role in one of the existing or new Discussion/Work Groups. On the awareness front, it seems clear that not enough people that should be aware of Kantara are fully aware. In my experience the best way to do this is through speaking and writing with direct tie-backs to the appropriate Kantara activities. An action you can take is to submit a speaking session to your favorite identity-oriented conference on a topic directly related to what you are doing with Kantara. Some people are already doing this today, but all of you should consider yourselves to be Kantara evangelists. I firmly believe that if more people knew about our activities at Kantara, the other two issues of people and financial resources would solve themselves. I look forward to collaborating with you more in 2011! Matthew Gardiner President Kantara Initiative Director, CA Technologies =Joni Joni Brennan IEEE-ISTO Kantara Initiative | Managing Director voice:+1 732-226-4223 email: joni @ ieee-isto.org gtalk: jonibrennan skype: upon request Join the conversation on the community@ list - http://kantarainitiative.org/mailman/listinfo/community

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Post NSTIC Stanford event meeting
by Kaliya 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

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FYI - NSTIC Meeting in Silicon Valley on Friday Jan 7
by Joni Brennan 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

This meeting may be of interest to many on this list. If you are planning to attend please do let us know as Kantara would kindly seek a short summary from the meeting. In case you happen to be near Stanford on Friday the 7th, there's a short NSTIC overview meeting: ----- Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and cybersecurity czar Howard Schmidt are slated to head out to Stanford this Friday to offer insight on the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. They'll join a slew of industry leaders - including the CEOs from McAfee and TechAmerica, one of the event's hosts - to discuss what's next for the draft proposal the administration released this summer. (Look for a final version of it to arrive early this winter, with the president perhaps receiving the report before President's Day.) ----- For details and to register: http://www.techamerica.org/nstic Best Regards, Joni

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Call for nominations for the Kantara Initiative 2011 IDDY (IDentity Deployment of the Year) Awards
by Dervla O'Reilly 27 Dec '10

27 Dec '10

The call for nominations for the 2011 IDDY (IDentity Deployment of the Year) Awards is still open! We encourage you to refer partners and organizations that could be good candidates for the award program. Past winners are among the best and brightest in the identity marketplace, and we look forward to honoring this year's recipients at the RSA Conference, February 2011. This fifth year of IDDY Awards will honor deployments and proofs of concept of all identity specifications anyone that utilizes any open/ standard identity technology, including ID-WSF, Identity services from the Cloud, IGF, Information Cards, OATH, OAuth, OpenID, OpenSocial, OPML, PKI, RDF, RSS, SAML, WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS, XACML, XDI, XMPP extensions, XRD, XRI, etc., is encouraged to participate. Below you will find documents that outline the judging criteria for the proof of concept (POC) and the deployment categories. The application forms are available as well. IDDYAwards 2011 Identity Deployment Category Judging Criteria final.pdf IDDYAwards 2011 Identity Deployment Nomination Form final.pdf IDDYAwards 2011 POC Emerging Applications Category Criteria final.pdf IDDYAwards 2011 POC Emerging Nomination Form final.pdf Key dates to remember: Applications due: January 5, 2011 by midnight PT---submit to iddy(a)kantarainiative.org Award winners notified by January 17, 2011 IDDY Award presentation February 14, 2011 2009 IDDY Award winners: IDDY Deployment award winners: Google and Plaxo, Signicat, The U.S. Department of Defense. IDDY Proof of Concept (POC) awards: fun communications, Gemalto and Vodafone, NRI and NTT and Oracle. Have questions? Contact – iddy(a)kantarainitiative.org Good luck! ________________________ Dervla O’Reilly Program Manager Kantara Initiative +1 415 731 4487 business +1 415 948 3650 mobile +1 415 202 5212 Skype +1 509 757 4487 fax dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org http://www.kantarainitiative.org Subscribe to the Kantara Initiative newsletter

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Save the date – Next Kantara Meeting May 16-18, 2011 hosted by Fraunhofer FOKUS, Charlottenburg, Berlin
by Dervla O'Reilly 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Save the date for the next Kantara Initiative meeting to be held May 16-18, 2011. Many thanks to our gracious hosts Fraunhofer FOKUS who will host the meeting at their institute in Charlottenburg, Berlin. Kantara is planning a one-day Summit on May 10 at the European Identity Conference in Munich where we expect many members and participants to be in attendance. Contact Dervla O’Reilly if you have questions regarding the meeting and are interested to participate in the May 10 Summit. ________________________ Dervla O’Reilly Program Manager Kantara Initiative +1 415 731 4487 business +1 415 948 3650 mobile +1 415 202 5212 Skype +1 509 757 4487 fax dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org http://www.kantarainitiative.org Subscribe to the Kantara Initiative newsletter

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