Thank you Scott And thank you Ingo for your years of dedication in leading this DG. I think a pivot to authentication in Smart Cities' contexts would be a good topic, if there is interest in this group - including bringing others in who are.. Other thoughts from folks on this list? Kind regards On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 2:51 PM Scott Shorter wrote:

Ingo,

I'm sorry to hear that you won't be able to continue, it has been good working with you over the years. Identification and authentication in the IOT space is an important topic, and I learned a lot in the group.

Colin and all,

With regard to a potential new topic, my suggestion is to focus on authentication for Smart Cities. I'm much more interested in analyzing the overall problem space than the specific use case of using blockchain for that authentication.

Whether they think of themselves as Smart Cities not, municipal governments collect vast amounts of data through myriad sensors and systems in ways that impact residents in everything from physical safety to personal privacy. The overall authentication use case includes humans and devices, in ways that are affected by some of the hardest problem spaces in cybersecurity, including supply chain integrity, identity proofing, and management of PII and other personal data. I've been interested in the topic for quite some time - before I came to IDESG or Kantara, I worked with NIST developing a NISTIR on the topic of testing firmware update mechanisms for smart electric meters, and I was interested in the device authentication problem space while I supported IDESG, but the focus was on authentication of individuals instead of devices.

I think that the group should carry on, with a refined focus and a goal of producing a paper within a fairly limited time period.

How does that sound? I'll be honored to take over from Ingo if my ideas are suitable.

Cheers, Scott

On 10/01/2018 06:57 AM, Colin Wallis Kantara wrote:

Hi Ingo

Thank you for your dedication and leadership of this group over the past years, and sorry to hear about the changed responsibilities that takes you in another direction.

I'm jumping here as I know that LC Chair Andrew Hughes is deep into ISO SC27 meetings in Gjovik this week, representing both Kantara and his national body, and will be short of time to respond.

I am aware we have lots of email lurkers this group that don't necessarily turn out for the calls.

Whether you are a regular on the calls or one of those lurkers, now is the time to step up with your ideas and leadership.

So let's start with your ideas for extending the topic that Ingo championed, or new topics that can be progressed with your leadership.

Then we can have process play its role to formalise the way forward.

Kind regards

Colin

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On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 11:06 AM wrote:

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Dear IDoT DG,

The group exists now for more than 5 years. Unfortunately we lost momentum during last months. I tried to regain it by setting up a hands-on topic like

“authentication with the help of blockchain” used in a vertical like smart cities.

But obviously there is not as much interest as I thought. Due to reorganizations in my company I will be no longer able to chair this group.

If someone has interest and time to take over this position to drive the group with new enthusiasm would be great.

Another option would be to shut down the group.

I started to talk to Colin and Andrew about it.

I’d like to postpone the todays call until we sorted out the next steps.

Thank you!

Best Regards, Ingo Friese

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