Catch the round up of recent updates from Kantara Initiative:

• Authorization Standards Workshop at Burton Catalyst San Diego, July 27, 12:30-2:30pm
• Merger of Kantara’s IdP Selection WG into ULX WG
• Kantara Initiative Meeting, Oct. 19-21, Paris, France hosted by Orange-FT
• Kantara Initiative announces the formation of the Federation Interoperability Work Group (FIWG)
• Kantara Initiative Announces Identity Assurance Framework 2.0
• Announcing Yasuhisa Sakamoto & Toshihiro Suzuki as Kantara Initiative’s Japan WG co-chairs
• Kantara Initiative Engages Drummond Group to Manage Global Interoperability Program
• Comparing OAuth and UMA – by Eve Maler
• Kantara speakers featured at Burton Catalyst Prague, June 21-24, 2010
• Kantara Initiative Webcast via BrightTALK: Identity Assurance Frameworks within Federated IAM Systems, May 6 - listen and view the audio of this Webcast
• Catch up on recent activities at industry events: UMA at EIC 2010, IIW X round-up
• What exactly is “open” in Open Identity?
• Industry events – contact Dervla O’Reilly regarding discounted conference rates: pii2010, August 17-19, Seattle, 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