(This message is sent on the behalf of Matthew Gardiner, President of Kantara Initiative) Colleagues of the Kantara Initiative Greetings from Munich Germany where I was attending the European Identity Conference 2010. A number of other Kantara folk were also in attendance. As my first note to the community as Kantara president I want to take this opportunity to update you on some changes that have taken place recently within the initiative. Firstly, we have just said goodbye to a number of colleagues of longstanding, namely the Rogers (both Sullivan & Martin) and Bill Smith. Roger Sullivan has retired from Oracle and thus simultaneously retired from his position as Kantara President and as a member of the BoT. Roger Martin has finished up his duties as Interim ED after previously finishing up as AOL’s member of the BoT. Also with the official phase out of the Liberty Alliance, Bill Smith has finished his duties as the Liberty representative to the BoT. They all are doing well and wish Kantara nothing but success. I thank them for their work over the years. So those are the goodbyes, what about the hellos? - As the sitting VP of Kantara I automatically take over as President and serve out the remaining term for calendar 2010. - We have just restructured the Kantara staff, promoting Joni to Managing Director of Kantara with the entire Kantara staff reporting to her. We also have opened up a spot for a new staff person that will take over some of Joni’s responsibilities in the role of Technical Program Coordinator (if you have ideas for someone for this role, please pass them to Joni). Given this change in Joni’s responsibilities we have suspended our search for a new ED. We think this new structure will be effective in moving Kantara forward. - Roger Sullivan will be replaced on the BoT by his former colleague at Oracle, Vadim Lander. - Lucy Lynch who is currently on the BoT from ISOC and is the Secretary of Kantara is also taking on the role of Treasurer from Roger Martin. Thanks to Lucy. - IEEE-ISTO (Kantara’s parent organization) is expanding their support role of Kantara to include both financial services as well as marketing support. The bottom line is we think this structure and approach continues to position us well to do well for the identity industry and our members. One final thought for now…please encourage others both inside and outside your organization to participate in the working/discussion groups, become full members, as well as take part in the interoperability and assurance programs, as we literally need to bring the community together to take the industry forward faster. Best Regards, Matthew Gardiner Matthew Gardiner Director of Product Marketing Security & Compliance BU CA, Inc. matthew.gardiner@ca.com 508-628-8598