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Thanks to all who attended the Identity Collaboration Day on February 14 in San Francisco. Most of the notes are available from the sessions online at the IIW wiki page – stay tuned for further submissions in the coming days. Please direct questions to iiwnotes@gmail.com
Congratulations to Frank Villavicencio and Myisha Frazier-McElveen on their elections as Co-chairs of Kantara Initiative’s Identity Assurance Work Group (IAWG). This is an exciting time in the IAWG. As we charge forward with an aggressive 2011 agenda, we look forward to their strong leadership in working toward the common goal of accelerating Kantara’s visibility and contributions to the Identity Management / Privacy Communities. Congratulations again to Frank and Myisha.
In 2009 Paul Trevithick co-founded and began co-chairing the Kantara Initiative’s Universal Login User Experience Working Group (ULX WG) alongside Bob Morgan, Internet2 and Michael Graves, JanRain/OIDF.
The Universal Login User Experience Working Group (ULX WG) looks at the Universal Login Experience – we all know how to sign in to a site using username and password. But what if the site also wants to offer SAML, OpenID, or Infocard? Or all three! What’s the experience then? How can we make this understandable and measurably workable by mere mortals? What’ the UX with and without an active client? We’re trying to answer questions like these. Lots of details like, is the button that kicks this off called “log in”, “sign in” or “connect”? Find out more here, sign up for the group here. Paul Trevithick is also the co-founder, with John Clippinger, of Parity Communications, now Azigo, and has served as its CEO and CTO since 2003. He initiated and is the technical leader of the work that is now the Eclipse Foundation‘s Higgins project. Supporting this effort, he also co-founded SocialPhysics.org, IdentityGang.org, IdentitySchemas.org. In 2008 Paul founded the Information Card Foundation and is currently its chair.
Since 2003, Paul’s work has focused on creating open source identity infrastructure that give people more control, convenience, and privacy with respect to their digital identities and social networks on the internet. A key focus has been the development of active client software. He co-authored the paper Identity and Resilience that was one of the 100 papers cited as informing the 2009 White House CyberPolicy Review.
Follow Paul blogs at InContext
Congratulations to John Fraser of MEDNETWorld.com, Rick Moore of eHealth Ohio & Pete Palmer of Surescripts. All three gentlemen will continue to serve this year as co-leading chairs for Kantara Initiative’s Healthcare Identity Assurance WG. Previously, John, Rick and Pete led Liberty Alliance’s Healthcare SIG. We look forward to more great work to come out of the Healthcare Identity Assurance WG in 2010 and encourage you to become involved.
Diverse Market Leaders from the Identity Ecosystem Converge to Stage Kantara Initiative’s RSA Security Pre-Conference Workshop on “Technology, Policy and Compliance for Identity Services in 2010 and Beyond” Gain State-of-Identity Insight of common Cloud/SaaS scenarios and recent developments in assurance, multi-protocol interoperability, privacy-enablement and more from Enterprise and Consumer Market Leaders. Piscataway, NJ, 8 February 2010 Kantara Initiative announced today its annual public Identity Workshop at the RSA Security Conference. The one-day event to be held on March 1st from 8:00am- 5:00pm in the Moscone Center in San Francisco is designed to equip attendees with the vital information required to ensure success in employing the right identity management approach with the proper considerations. Recent developments in identity assurance, multi-protocol interoperability, liability models, usability, privacy-enablement and identity services certification will be spotlighted by key market leaders including Google, Oracle, CA, Aetna, NTT and Ping Identity. “If you run a login system of any type (Enterprise, Consumer, SaaS vendor) you will find this workshop to be packed with information about major changes in the space, both in terms of security design and new functionality that can improve your identity infrastructure,” reveals Eric Sachs, Product Manager for Google Security. “Since its inception nearly one year ago, Kantara Initiative has built momentum for service deployment across the identity ecosystem,” says Roger Sullivan, Oracle. “This workshop will help deployers understand how to connect the dots between cloud computing and identity management”. “Identity protocols like SAML, OpenID, OAuth, and Information Cards continue to evolve,” says Paul Madsen, Identity Management Researcher at NTT. “This workshop will discuss recent developments, and present opportunities for combining the protocols in useful ways.” “Identity Assurance is the key to successful, secure transactions across the emerging National Health Information Network, “ explains Mark Coderre, Head of Security Architecture for Aetna. “At this workshop we will be showcasing what the healthcare industry is doing with Kantara Initiative programs to improve the security of sensitive data transactions across operational boundaries.” The identity workshop will feature a series of presentations, panels and demonstrations of common Cloud/SaaS deployment scenarios and innovations from various market leaders. Technology, Policy and Compliance for identity Services in 2010 & Beyond is open to the public and to all RSA Conference attendees. To register for this free Kantara Initiative workshop, please click http://www.emc.com/microsites/rsa-conference/2010/usa/registration-and-rates.htm and use the code: 131 0KANEXPO for the Expo only pass and select Kantara Initiative from the ‘Registration Package’ page. Note that this pass only allows access to the Kantara Initiative workshop on March 1. About Kantara Initiative Kantara Initiative is a global, open, public-private, technology-agnostic forum comprised of identity ecosystem stakeholders. Co-founded by Liberty Alliance, Internet Society, and the Information Card Foundation, among others, its inspired mission is to promote technical interoperability and harmonization; to develop policy frameworks for operational interoperability and; to provide certification and assessment programs to grow trust in the standards, products, and service deployments. Kantara Initiative freely provides the governance and resources whereby diverse members of the ecosystem successfully collaborate on a diverse portfolio of common policy frameworks, technical specifications and deployment guidelines driven by the identity community, industry and governments from around the world. For more information about getting involved in Kantara Initiative, visit www.kantarainitiative.org. Media Contact Michelle Hunt Kantara Initiative Michelle.Hunt@ieee-isto.org (732) 981.3434 (o) ###
We’re happy to announce the continued leadership of Philippe Clement as Kantara Initiative’s Identity Provider Selection Working Group Chair. Philippe works at Orange-FT Group and has been involved with Kantara Initiative since it’s inception as Chair of the Identity Provider Selection WG. In previous years, Philippe actively worked with the Business Marketing Expert Group (BMEG) to move the work of IdP Selection MRD forward. We congratulate Philippe with his ongoing leadership and look forward to more great work coming from the Identity Provider Selection WG this year.
Currently in Development: eGov Profile 2.0 Podcast: Download MP3 | Episode Length: 0:15:10 | Filesize: 10 MB NOTE: This podcast was produced in collaboration with the Kantara Initiative Identity Community Update Discussion Group.
We’re happy to announce the continued leadership of Kenji Takahashi as Kantara Initiative’s Japan WG (Working Group) Chair. Mr. Takahashi of NTT has worked with Kantara Initiative since it’s launch alongside Toshihiro Suzuki of Oracle Corporation as co-chair of the Japan WG. Kenji also leads the Japan Discussion Group for Kantara. Both Kenji and Toshihiro have played a significant part in extending the education and adoption in the Japanese market, most recently presenting the Kantara Initiative Symposium. Kenji also served in previous years as co-chair of the Liberty Alliance Japan Special Interest Group (SIG). We congratulate Kenji in his continued role and look forward more great work coming from the Japan WG this year.
You can listen to and watch the recording the UMA explained webinar presented by Eve Maler and Paul Bryan from Kantara Initiative’s UMA WG. To benefit from the increasing number of services accessible over the Web, we’re forced to “hand over the data” — data that’s sensitive, valuable, and personal — and we end up paying a price in both privacy and convenience. The new User-Managed Access web protocol promises to help web users share their data more selectively using a central digital footprint dashboard, while helping websites get access to fresher and better-quality data when they need it. This session reviews UMA benefits, progress to date, and next steps.
From the UMA charter: The purpose of the UMA work at Kantara is to develop a set of draft specifications that enable an individual to control the authorization of data sharing and service access made between online services on the individual’s behalf, and to facilitate the development of interoperable implementations of these specifications by others. Podcast: Download MP3 | Episode Length: 0:27:41 | Filesize: 18.5 MB NOTE: This podcast was produced in collaboration with the Kantara Initiative Identity Community Update Discussion Group. |
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Colin Wallis from the New Zealand Government’s Department of Internal Affairs joins this episode of the Identity Matters Podcast. As the Kantara Initiative