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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 14 Feb '11

14 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 04 Feb '11

04 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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