Kantara Initiative’s User-Managed Access (UMA) WG will hold their first-ever UMA Twitter chat on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, at 9-10am Pacific time (time chart). If there’s interest, the group will turn this into a regular event.

The chat hashtag is #UMAchat. If you write in, be sure to use it! An easy way to follow along is to use TweetChat.com.

Your hosts will be:

• Eve Maler, UMA group chair (@xmlgrrl)
• Maciej Machulak, UMA group vice-chair (@mmachulak)

The focus of this chat is:

• The UMA spec
• UMA implementations, development advice, best practices, and interoperability testing

…or whatever UMA-related topics you want to float!

If you have any comments or suggestions ahead of time, feel free to tweet directly to the hosts, and/or include the hashtag #UMAchat or #UMAWG to get our attention.

UMA Chat details: bit.ly/ymAKIZ

We invite you to join us for our the Kantara & OpenID Summit, July 19.  Kantara Initiative and the OpenID Foundation are organizations dedicated to providing platforms and resources for the growth and enrichment of the identity landscape.

This Summit will contain presentations and panels from diverse market leaders discussing industry efforts focussed on protocols such as OpenID and UMA and their use in the Enterprise. Learn about current progress and new community efforts from both organizations.

When: July 19, 8am-1pm

Where: Keystone Conference Center, Colorado at the Cloud Identity Summit

Free Registration: http://www.cloudidentitysummit.com/register.cfm

Agenda: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=47186071

We’re happy to share two new reports created by Kantara Initiative’s Information Sharing Work Group (ISWG).

The first report, The Information Sharing Report, is a Work Group Report of the Kantara Initiative’s Information Sharing Work Group based on a comprehensive literature review. Research and report by Mark Lizar, with contributions from Joe Andrieu, Judi Clark, and Iain Henderson. A special thanks also to Eve Maler for her contributions.

The second report, the Personal RFP Engagement Model Report, is a Work Group Report of the Kantara Initiative’s Information Sharing Work Group based on Step 3 in the ISWG’s Car Buying Engagement Model.

Both reports have been approved by Kantara Initiative’s Leadership Council and can be found on our Reports page.

We encourage your participation in the ISWG. Send comments to joe@switchbook.com

Kantara Initiative and the community would like to thank Trent Adams as Chair and Colin Wallis as Vice-Chair for their hard work and leadership over the past year in spearheading the work of the Leadership Council (LC). Both will be missed, although we’re glad to continue working closely with them as we move Kantara’s work forward.

We welcome John Bradley as Chair, Pete Palmer as Vice-Chair and Eve Maler as Secretary for the next term of leadership. All 3 are active in leading Work Groups (WGs) for Kantara; John for Federation Interoperability, Pete for Healthcare Identity Assurance and Eve for User Managed Access.

Join us in congratulating the new team.

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.

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
Kantara Initiative had a very successful inaugural meeting co-located at the DIDW in Las Vegas. CURRENT FORMED GROUPS
The Leadership Council approved the Work Groups (WG) and Discussion Groups (DG) listed below for operation.  Each group has its own workspace (wiki), Google Calendar, and mail list available from the home pages.

UPDATE FROM A FEW DISCUSSION GROUPS FROM RECENT MEETING
Assurance Review Board (ARB) – The Board of Trustees appointed the ARB to over see the activities of the forth coming Identity Assurance Certification Program. Read more information from each group.

INTEROP TEST RESULTS
Kantara Initiative and Liberty Alliance announced that identity products from Entrust, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Ping Identity, SAP and Siemens have passed Liberty Interoperable(TM) SAML 2.0 interoperability testing.

SPOTLIGHT ON EVE MALER
Eve is Chair of the User-Managed Access (UMA) Work Group. In addition, Eve served as the Project Concordia Chair/community leader for the last number of years. She was also the first Leadership Council Secretary of Kantara Initiative. Read more.

IDDY AWARDS
We congratulate six applications have won a 2009 IDDY (Identity Deployment of the Year) Award. The IDDYs were presented at CSO magazine’s Digital ID World 2009 in Las Vegas, NV.

BLOG HOTSPOT
Our community continues to blog on a regular basis – follow these posts online. We encourage you to blog and become involved.

UPCOMING EVENTS
All upcoming Kantara-related events; conferences, trade events, webcasts, and more.

SOCIAL NETWORKING
Connect with Kantara Initiative with the various ways our individual and collective voice and experience is reaching the extended community. Read more about our networking channels.

PRESS RELEASES
Entrust, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Ping Identity, SAP and Siemens Pass Liberty Alliance SAML 2.0 Interoperability Testing – September 30, 2009
Michigan Healthcare Information Exchange Adopts Kantara Initiative Identity Assurance Framework – September 24, 2009
Kantara Initiative Announces Winners of the 2009 IDDY Award – September 15, 2009
Aetna, BT, SUNET and the US GSA Lead New Kantara Initiative Identity Assurance Review Board – August 18, 2009

SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES
We continue to build our speakers bureau. For those of you who are new members, we are looking for experts who can offer their expertise, Kantara-related, at industry trade events, conferences, co-sponsored workshops/events. These opportunities provide exposure for Kantara therefore we would like to broaden our reach by updating our group of expert speakers. If you are interested in representing Kantara Initiative, please contact Dervla O’Reilly, dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org

http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2009/07/14/consumerizing-it-at-catalyst/

The Burton Catalyst conference being held in San Diego in a couple of weeks is one of those don’t-miss events. If you’re going (I said it was don’t-miss, didn’t I?), you’ll want to get into town in time for the free Project Concordia workshop being held on the Monday. Our theme is Use Cases Driving Identity in Enterprise 2.0: The Consumerization of IT. This link gives you the agenda and instructions on how to register — it’s not too late.

We Concordians are excited to have Mike Gotta and Alice Wang of Burton Group on hand on Monday to present Relationships and Identity: Two Sides of the Social Networking Coin. We’ll also deep-dive on authorization standards progress and the evergreen “levels of assurance” topic (see the Concordia mailing list for huge volumes of discussion on it). And we’ll even review some potential ProtectServe use cases.

The workshop also makes a great companion to the Cloud SSO Interop Demo being run later in the week, in which Sun is participating. And and come visit me and my colleagues at the Sun hospitality suite on Wednesday night! I hear our own Smoking Monkey might be decked out in special attire…