This is a formal notification that the Identity Assurance Work Group (IAWG) has approved the following document as IAWG-Approved Draft Recommendations and their distribution for public comment and IPR Review: 

These documents have entered a 45-day public comment and IPR review period in preparation for an all-member ballot to consider their approval as Kantara Initiative Recommendations. 

Overview of Document:

This Specification sets forth KI's Service Assessment Criteria for assessments against the requirements of NIST's SP 800-63A at IAL2 & IAL3, to be generally referred-to as the '63A_SAC'. These criteria are reviewed annually for any required re-expression, revision, etc.  Since their publication Kantara has granted a number of Approvals based on these criteria and anticipates growing interest in these Approvals in the short to medium term. 

The IAWG reviewed the current version of the 63A_SAC and proposed revisions after gathering feedback from the Assurance Review Board (ARB), Kantara Accredited Assessors, and CSPs over the past year.  The IAWG has approved this draft revision and Kantara is now releasing these criteria for a 45-day Public Review.

Accordingly, the approved XLS document (KIAF-1430 63A_SAC v4.1.1) is linked above. You need only review those criteria which are, in part or whole, in red text. There is an overview of the updates on the ‘download document’ page.

Kantara invites your review of this document and asks that you submit any comments and proposed revisions on or before 2023-10-19. As this deadline will be strictly adhered to, late submissions will not be taken into account.

We will especially appreciate and respond to comments which offer some kind of solution (e.g. revised wording) in addition to a statement describing the problem which is being addressed.

This is an open invitation to comment. Kantara Initiative solicits feedback from potential users, developers and other interested parties, whether Kantara Initiative members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

To Comment on the Recommendation:

To comment please use the form located at: https://kantarainitiative.org/comment/   

Intellectual Property Rights Notice:

Note that any submissions are deemed to be contributed under the IPR Option of the WG: Patent & Copyright: Reciprocal Royalty Free with Opt-Out to Reasonable And Non-discriminatory (RAND).

Intellectual Property Rights Notice: In accordance with the Kantara Initiative IPR Policy Appendix B Article 5 and the Kantara Initiative Operating Procedures Section 7.5, you have a period of 45 days to review the criteria for any Necessary Claims that may be implicated by the criteria.

While there is no requirement to review your patent portfolio for Necessary Claims, please be advised that unless you provide a licensing objection in accordance with the Kantara Initiative IPR Policy Article 5 or a notice of withdrawal in accordance with Kantara Initiative IPR Policy Article 6 on or before 2023-10-19 you will have committed to the licensing provisions as set forth by the Patent & Copyright: Reciprocal Royalty Free with Opt-Out to Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory (RAND) IPR Policy with respect to any Necessary Claims implicated by the final approved criteria.

Having signed the Group Participation Agreement (GPA) all members of the IAWG should be familiar with these documents, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member’s patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved Kantara Initiative Recommendation.

Kantara Initiative invites any persons who know of any part of this Group output that would infringe on third party intellectual property rights to disclose such infringement claims so that these claims may be provided to the Group members for resolution.
 
To submit an Intellectual Property Rights infringement claim, email staff@kantarainitiative.org  with the subject "IAWG IPR CLAIM".

Please contact the Kantara Initiative staff at staff@kantarainitiative.org with any questions regarding this notice.