All,

I wanted to provide a status update on ID Pro.

As we developed the back end infrastructure for the pledgees to join the Discussion Group we hit a couple of speed bumps that have resulted in us deciding to return to the original plan that saw us launch the Survey, followed by the Discussion Group a little time later.  

1. Consent Receipt: as you know we wanted to deploy a beta of the new latest Consent Receipt specification with this discussion group, partly because it is a good audience to raise its awareness with, and partly because we are under a restricted timeframe to get early implementations out and results fed back to the CISWG before freezing the spec and going for eBallot. We are very close to closing this piece out with regards to content and functionality but do need this week to complete it.

2. Privacy Policy: we had an update in-progress (since our current policy, written in 2011, was somewhat US-centric) but after checking its state, we found it was not quite baked enough to be ready for the compressed timeframe we agreed on a couple of weeks back. Also, the original brief did not have alignment with the Consent Receipt in scope. We expect this to take a bit longer and need until September 16 to finish this policy.

It is now our modified plan to launch in two phases to keep the momentum:

1) The request to take the survey will be issued on Sept 7. The revised email is attached and does include Ken’s change requests. We will still plan to close the survey on September 21.

2) Launch the DG sign up at the latest on September 22 after the close of the survey, but we will keep the pressure on to be ready as early as we can.  If we can bring the date forward a few days we will.

We will need the SC to meet to discuss the change in terms of holding the first DG meeting. I would  propose that meeting happen either Thursday or Friday of this week at 3:00pm Eastern, please let me know your availability for both times.

Regards,

Shannon