Dear WG, 

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 discussing with a couple of other standards groups with their skin in this game, a joint strategy on putting some comments forward, where in we put forward comments that might compliment each other in this field.  In particular, Kantara as an assessor has a certain perspective that could be support by some choice comments by us.  This would entail not the regular - put in all the comments we feel are good, but a bit of a mandate to curate the editorial 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 would like to invite interested parties to review this document, and if interested, discuss, draft and agree  an ANCR WG set of comments,  Not prohibiting any member of this group to indecently put forward all other comments that you might thing appropriate, 

If you are interested, and because time is relatively short, the idea would be to invite people to review the doc, and, to have an adhoc set of meetings for the next 3 Thursday’s - at 5pm (eastern) for an hour, 

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, perhaps even a raison d’etra for ANCR WG, it is a way 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 together the scale of experts required to actually do anything in the current market, 

Here is the Meeting Link for next Thursday at 5pm 

Best,