• Registration open for Kantara Initiative Meeting April 13-14, 2012 at Fraunhofer SIT offices, Garching, near Munich, Germany
• Spotlight on Lucy Lynch
• Congratulations on re-election and new leadership for Kantara Initiative’s Leadership Council
• Announcing re-election and new leadership for Kantara Initiative’s eGovernment Work Group
• Announcing re-election for Kantara Initiative’s Federation Interoperability Work Group
• UMA Webinar: Dec 14, 2011 – you can review the slides and the webinar recording
• UMA WG are holding an UMA tweet chat, focusing on technical details (spec, implementation, interop, deployment), on Wednesday, February 8, 2012, at 9-10am PT
• Kantara Initiative grants Accreditation to Deloitte & Touche LLP, and, eValid8, and Approves Verizons Universal Identity Service at LoA3

Industry events – Kantara members receive a discount at the following events, contact Dervla O’Reilly for the discount codes dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org:
- The Smart Card Alliance 2012 Payments Summit - Feb 8-10, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
- HIMSS HIE Symposium 2012 – Feb. 20, 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
- Kantara Face-to-Face Meeting - April 13-14 - kindly facilitated by Fraunhofer SIT at their meeting facility, Garching, near Munich, Germany
- Kantara Summit at EIC Conference (detailed agenda to follow) – April 17, Munich Germany

Kantara Initiative Membership Details
- Membership Details & Membership Levels
- Membership Forms:  Membership Agreement & Membership Information Form

Catch up on recent Kantara Initiative updates and activities:

• Spotlight on Leif Johansson
• Announcing re-election and new leadership for Kantara Initiative’s Identity Assurance Work Group
• Announcing re-election and new leadership for Kantara Initiative’s Information Sharing Work Group
• New leadership for Kantara Initiative’s Attribute Management Discussion Group
• Kantara Initiative – the first Approved US ICAM LoA 1, 2, and 3 non-PKI Trust Framework Provider
• Video and slide presentation from Share experience in Identity Federation and Electronic Identities – Sept. 28, 2011, Sweden
• Presentations from Kantara Initiative Identity Summit at Smart Card Alliance Conference, Nov. 1, 2011
• Share experience in identity federation and electronic identities – Sept. 28, 2011, Sweden
• Kantara announces Attribute Management Discussion Group formation
• Industry events – Kantara members receive a discount at the following events, contact Dervla O’Reilly for the discount codes dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org:
  - Takedowncon 2 – Mobile & Wireless Security – Dec. 2-7, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  - The Smart Card Alliance 2012 Payments Summit - Feb 8-10, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
  - HIMSS HIE Symposium 2012 – Feb. 20, 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  - Kantara Face-to-Face Meeting - April 13-14, TUM’s University, near Munich, Germany – more details coming soon

Catch up on recent Kantara Initiative updates and activities:

• Registration open for Kantara Initiative Meeting Oct. 20-21, 2011 hosted by CA, Redwood City, CA, USA
• Spotlight on Colin Wallis
• New leadership for Kantara Initiative Identity Assurance Work Group
• New leadership for Kantara Initiative Japan Work Group
• UMA webinar recording now available
• Announcing User-Managed Access: UMA Gives Data-Sharing Power to the People
• Kantara announces NSTIC Discussion Group formation
• Industry events – Kantara members receive a discount at the following events, contact Dervla O’Reilly for the discount codes dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org:
  - IIW XIII – Oct. 18-20, Mountain View, CA, USA
  - Smart Card Alliance Government Conference – November 2-4, Washington D.C., USA
  - Hacker Halted USA – Oct. 21-27, Miami, USA
  - Hacker Halted Asia – Nov. 17-19, Kuala Lampur
  - Gartner Identiy & Access Management Summit – Nov. 14-16, San Diego, CA, USA
  - Takedowncon 2 – Mobile & Wireless Security – Dec. 2-7, Las Vegas, NV, USA
  - The Smart Card Alliance 2012 Payments Summit - Feb 8-10, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
  - HIMSS HIE Symposium 2012 – Feb. 20, 2012, Las Vegas, NV, USA

• Spotlight on John Bradley
• Kantara Initiative & OpenID Summit at Cloud Identity Summit July 19, 2011
• Kantara Initiative kicks off new groups at Berlin F2F meeting: OSSI WG, TFMM WG & EUM DG
• Kantara Initiative round-up slides from Berlin F2F meeting – May 18, 2011
• Kantara Initiative Trust Framework Model & IdM Summit presentations May 13, 2011
• CA Technologies, IBM Corporation, SAP AG and UNINETT pass Kantara Initiative SAML 2.0 Full-Matrix Interoperability Testing
• New leadership for Kantara Initiative’s Business Cases for Trusted Federations DG
• Identity Collaboration Day notes
• Kantara Initiative & eCitizen Foundation announces kick-off of Patient ID Service (PIDS) pilot

Catch up on recent Kantara Initiative updates and activities:

• Kantara’s Healthcare Identity Assurance Work Group (HIA WG) launches Patient Identity Services Project (PIDS) March 3, 2011, 1pm EST
• Spotlight on Maciej Machulak
• Kantara announces formation of the Open Source Support Initiative WG (OSSI WG)
• Kantara Initiative Announces Winners of the 2011 IDDY Awards
• Federation Operator Guidelines – an official Kantara Initiative recommendation
• A presentation on Authentication and Authorization in Finland
• Massively Scalable Architecture Video Introduction
• Kantara Initiative announces 2 new Discussion Groups: EUM & BCTF
• 2 new reports from the Kantara Initiative Information Sharing Work Group (ISWG)
• New change of Management for Kantara Initiative’s Leadership Council

• Kantara Initiative Meeting, October 19-21, 2010 at Orange-FT campus, Paris, France
• Kantara Initiative Announces Today Fifth Annual IDDY Awards Recognizing Achievement in Identity Management
• OpenID Summit Paris, October 18, 2010 hosted by Orange-FT
• Kantara Initiative Symposium 2010, September 1, 2010, Tokyo, Japan
• Kantara Initiative and Open Identity Exchange Announce Collaboration to Grow Trust Framework Adoption
• Industry events – contact Dervla O’Reilly regarding discounted conference rates: Hacker Halted October 9-15 Miami, WHIT 6.0 Nov. 8-10 Washington D.C., Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit November 15-16 San Diego

• Authorization Standards Workshop at Burton Catalyst San Diego, July 27, 2010, 12:30-2:30pm
• Kantara Initiative Collaborating with Open Identity Exchange, OpenID Foundation and others on Multi-Protocol Federation Interoperability Demonstration
• Kantara Initiative Meeting, October 19-21, 2010 at Orange-FT campus, Paris, France
• Announcing leadership of Kantara Initiative’s Federation Interoperability Work Group (FIWG)
• Kantara Initiative’s association sponsorship at pii2010
• Announcing leadership of Kantara Initiative’s Identity and Access Services Work Group (IASWG)
• Kantara Initiative announces eValid8 as their first Accredited Assessor
• SAML 2.0 Full Matrix Test Event Registration Now Open
• Kantara Initiative Overview – Secure ID podcast by J. Trent Adams
• Industry events – contact Dervla O’Reilly regarding discounted conference rates or information regarding the following conferences Kantara is co-sponsoring: pii2010, August 17-19, Seattle, Hacker Halted October 9-15 Miami, ISSE 2010 Oct. 5-7 Berlin, WHIT 6.0 Nov. 8-10 Washington D.C., Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit November 15-16 San Diego

Catch the round up of recent updates from Kantara Initiative:

• Authorization Standards Workshop at Burton Catalyst San Diego, July 27, 12:30-2:30pm
• Merger of Kantara’s IdP Selection WG into ULX WG
• Kantara Initiative Meeting, Oct. 19-21, Paris, France hosted by Orange-FT
• Kantara Initiative announces the formation of the Federation Interoperability Work Group (FIWG)
• Kantara Initiative Announces Identity Assurance Framework 2.0
• Announcing Yasuhisa Sakamoto & Toshihiro Suzuki as Kantara Initiative’s Japan WG co-chairs
• Kantara Initiative Engages Drummond Group to Manage Global Interoperability Program
• Comparing OAuth and UMA – by Eve Maler
• Kantara speakers featured at Burton Catalyst Prague, June 21-24, 2010
• Kantara Initiative Webcast via BrightTALK: Identity Assurance Frameworks within Federated IAM Systems, May 6 - listen and view the audio of this Webcast
• Catch up on recent activities at industry events: UMA at EIC 2010, IIW X round-up
• What exactly is “open” in Open Identity?
• Industry events – contact Dervla O’Reilly regarding discounted conference rates: pii2010, August 17-19, Seattle, Hacker Halted October 9-15 Miami, WHIT 6.0 Nov. 8-10 Washington D.C., Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit November 15-16 San Diego

Catch the round up of recent updates from Kantara Initiative:

• Featuring Paul Trevithick, co-founder and co-chair of the Universal Login Experience (ULX) WG
• Announcing leadership of Kantara Initiative Work Groups: Consumer Identity WG, P3WG, Healthcare Identity Assurance WG, IdP Selection WG, Telecommunications Identity WG
• Public workshop: Making the world safe for user-managed access at EIC, May 4, Munich
• Kantara Initiative’s RSA Security Pre-Conference Workshop, March 1 2010
• A round up of work from DG/WGs at the recent Kantara Initiative Conference in Oregon: Concordia, eGov, IdP Selection, ID-WSF Evo, TelCo ID, UMA
• Identity Assurance, an everyday life issue – articles from the IA WG Chair
• Concordia DG Authz and LOA Surveys
• Executive Director Search: Job Description
• Identity Matters: eGovernment
• Kantara Initiative’s UMA WG webinar: UMA explained – listen and watch the recording
• Identity Matters: User Managed Access
• Announcing Government of Canada Consultation on Cyber Authentication
• Identity Assurance WG testimony to Health IT Committee and NHIN
• Industry events – contact Dervla O’Reilly regarding discounted conference rates: Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit June 21-23 Maryland, Hacker Halted October 9-15 Miami, WHIT 6.0 Nov. 8-10 Washington D.C., Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit November 15-16 San Diego