There is finally a paper up for comment, which for the first time enters into the relative field of that the ANCR WG works in. 

It is called "NIST IR 8480: Attribute Validation Services for Identity Management Architecture, Security, Privacy, and Operational Considerations” [Internet Accessible @  https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/ir/8480/ipd ]

The deadline for comments, has been extended from tomorrow to Dec 2nd, and I am calling for interest from a couple of other standards communities with a keen interest on the topic of Digital Trust,  to participate in a joint strategy on submitting comments, wherein we put forward comments that might compliment each other in this field.  In particular, Kantara as an 800 63 assessor has a certain perspective that has weight and could be support by some choice comments.  This would entail not the regular - put in all the comments we feel are good, but a  mandate to curate the edit of these comments so that meet a level of a) consensus b) are appropriate for Kantara’s role in the ecosystem, 

To this end, I am calling for those of you who are interested to review this document, and to join a meeting to discuss, draft and agree  an ANCR WG set of comments.    Not prohibiting any member of this group to directly put forward any other comments that you might think are appropriate from a personal or organisational level independently. 

If you are interested, and because time is relatively short, I invite those of you interested to review the doc, and, to join an adhoc set of meetings for the next 3 Thursday’s - at 5pm (eastern) for up to 45 min, 

Objective for the meetings: 

1.  Meeting 1   to discuss the paper 

2. Meeting 2  to draft and or review draft comments

3. Meeting 3   agree and share with counterparts to prep - and then submit  comments 

While this is a bit ambitious, it is my opinion that this is very important topic and the raison d’etra for ANCR WG, it is also a method for  us to come to a shared understanding of the technical purpose of this group, and has a path for a multi-community team up, that can leverage the TPI spec, so that we can, together, marshal the scale of expertise and advocacy required to really make a difference. 

Here is the Meeting Link for next Thursday at 5pm 

Sincerely,