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October 2009 |
FEATURES THIS MONTHMESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENTKantara 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 groups below for updates from the meeting. 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. 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 for a smaller venue for the Board of Trustees and Leadership Council. The second is for a larger meeting that would accommodate the BoT, LC as well as several work groups. Please contact dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org with questions. CURRENT FORMED GROUPS
The Leadership Council approved the Work Groups (WG) and Discussion Groups (DG) listed below for operation. Each group has its own workspace (wiki), Google Calendar, and mail list available from the home pages linked below.
Stay tuned for new groups being formed in the coming weeks: UPDATE FROM A FEW DISCUSSION GROUPS FROM RECENT MEETINGAssurance Review Board (ARB) - The Board of Trustees appointed the Assurance Review Board to over see the activities of the forth coming Identity Assurance Certification Program.
WG - Leadership Council
WG - Privacy and Public Policy
INTEROP TEST RESULTS
This year's program featured enhanced SAML 2.0 testing scenarios between Service Provider (SP) and Identity Provider (IdP). The eGovernment SAML 2.0 profile and its requisite test plan have been developed by Liberty Alliance with input from the Danish, New Zealand and US governments. Testing processes for the eGovernment profile included multiple SP logout scenarios, requested authentication context comparisons, and other aspects of SAML 2.0 necessary to meet interoperability, privacy, security and transparency requirements in the global eGovernment sector. A review of the SAML 2.0 v1.5 eGovernment profile is available online. SPOTLIGHT ON EVE MALEREve is Chair of the User-Managed Access (UMA) Work Group. In addition, Eve served as the Project Concordia Chair/community leader for the last number of years. She was also the first Leadership Council Secretary of Kantara Initiative. Eve is a Distinguished Engineer in PayPal’s Identity Services group, where she drives the development of security and identity strategies for enabling consumer choice in permissioning of personal data sharing. Eve was one of the inventors of XML; she also co-founded the SAML effort and has made major leadership, technical, and educational contributions to many other standards and technical communities. In recent times she has focused primarily on consumer trust, privacy, and empowerment issues in Web identity and permissioned data-sharing. Eve also loves to play keyboards and sing rock and roll with her fellow musicians, a.k.a., Mud Junket. Continuing in this creative vein, Eve has contributed, written and created many more exciting things which can be found on herblog page. We’re delighted to have Eve’s continued support and on board with the Kantara Initiative. IDDY AWARDSOur community continues to blog on a regular basis - follow these posts online. We encourage you to blog and become involved.
The IDDY Deployment award winners include:
The winning IDDY Proof of Concept (POC) awards include: BLOG HOTSPOTOur community continues to blog on a regular basis - follow these posts online. We encourage you to blog and become involved. SOCIAL NETWORKING
Connect with Kantara Initiative with the various ways our individual and collective voice and experience is reaching the extended community: PRESS RELEASES
UPCOMING EVENTSSee all upcoming Kantara-related events; conferences, trade events, webcasts, and more.
CSI 2009 – October 24-30, 2009, Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, National Harbor, MD, USA (nr. Washington D.C. area)
5th Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress (WHIT v.5.0), November 8-10, Washington D.C. USA Pete Palmer & John Fraser, Chairs of the Healthcare Identity Assurance Work Group will present on Tuesday, November 10, 11:40-12:30. We encourage you to attend this Summit titled Interoperability and Connectivity: Privacy Security and Trust in Health Information Exchange. Kantara Initiative members will receive a special price for the Conference. Please use the promo code “TNP897” when you register and receive $200 discount.
Defrag 2009, November 11-12, 2009, Hyatt Regency Denver, Colorado, USA
In the largest sense, we're all looking to augment the pace at which we achieve insights on raw data -- to accelerate the "aha" moment. Defrag explores the intersection of topics like: Register using priority code 'kantara1' to receive a $200 discount on the Conference fee
CLOUD 09, December 2-4, 2009, Forum am Deutschen Museum, Munich, Germany Kantara Initiative members receive 25-40% discount off the Conference rate. Please contact dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org
MISC 2010, January 20-22, 2010, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), London, U.K. The MISC conference is about exploring the current changes in technologies and practices towards individualization and socialization through connectivity and mobile technology at the service of identity construction. Our goal is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in a variety of fields (education, employment, healthcare, policy, technologies etc.) to facilitate exchanges and foster future collaborations. It aims at offering a forum where these researchers and practitioners can discuss theoretical as well as practical aspects, open issues, and innovative approaches as well as share the latest advances in the state of the art of personal and social data management, privacy/intimacy and identity construction.
European Identity Conference (e-ID), May 4-7, 2010, Forum am Deutschen Museum, Munich, Germany Kantara Initiative members receive 25-40% discount off the Conference rate. Please contact dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIESWe continue to build our speakers bureau. For those of you who are new members, we are looking for experts who can offer their expertise, Kantara-related, at industry trade events, conferences, co-sponsored workshops/events. These opportunities provide exposure for Kantara therefore we would like to broaden our reach by updating our group of expert speakers. If you are interested in representing Kantara Initiative, please contact Dervla O’Reilly, dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org |
Kantara Initiative and Liberty Alliance announced that identity products from Entrust, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Ping Identity, SAP and Siemens have passed Liberty Interoperable SAML 2.0 interoperability testing. These vendors participated in the third Liberty Interoperable full-matrix testing event to be 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. Web-based full-matrix testing allows vendors to participate from anywhere in the world and features rigorous processes for ensuring products meet SAML 2.0 interoperability requirements for open, secure and privacy-respecting federated identity management.If you wish to cancel your subscription to this newsletter please contact Dervla O'Reilly
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