Fair question Patrick. My understanding is below... BCTF is focused on Trust Frameworks and Trusted Federation (anywhere and everywhere) and EUM is larger in scope than Trust Frameworks and specifically European focused. The stakeholders of each group have recognized that there is fair bit of overlap and have discussed this issue. However, that discussion yielded guidance (from stakeholder consensus) that the groups should continue to be separate. As deliverables and scope are further refined the two groups do have the option to discuss a potential merge if there is consensus to do so. Bottom line is - the overlap and differences have been recognized and leadership of each group is tracking for further discussion (in 3-6 months). 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 On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Patrick Curry < patrick.curry@federatedbusiness.org> wrote:

Anna,

How does this relate to Serge's group. I see a lot of overlap.

Thanks.

Patrick

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On 25/01/2011 15:50, "Anna Ticktin" wrote:

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Hello All‹

To review a capture of yesterday's meeting notes, please follow the link below:

http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/bctf/BCTF-DG+Meeting+Notes

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+2011-01-24

Regards. ‹> Anna Ticktin

Technical Program Coordinator anna@kantarainitiative.org anna@ieee-isto.org

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