• 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

Please join us in congratulating re-elected leadership of Kantara Initiative’s Federation Interoperability Work Group

John Bradley will serve as the group Co-chair for another one-year term.  John is also joined by Co-chair Bob Morgan of University of Washington who has been active for numerous years.

The Federation Interoperability Work Group was formed within the Kantara Initiative to profile existing specifications to define an interoperable trust infrastructure for use by parties participating in Trust Frameworks. This will allow entities to determine the certification status and configuration parameters of entities outside of their local federation.

Join the Federation Interoperability Work Group: http://signup.kantarainitiative.org/?selectedGroup=24
Review the Charter: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/fiwg/Charter
Mail list and Archives: https://groups.google.com/group/wg-fi?hl=en
Copyright Policy: Kantara Initiative IPR Policy – Creative Commons Share-Alike Attribution

We offer our support and congratulations again to John & Bob as they continue to carry the work of the group and Kantara forward.

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.

The Kantara Initiative is pleased to announce the formation of the Kantara Initiative Federation Interoperability Work Group (FIWG). The purpose of this Work Group is to profile existing specifications to define an interoperable trust infrastructure for use by parties participating in Trust Frameworks. This will allow entities to determine the certification status and configuration parameters of entities outside of their local federation.

- Join this Group
- Review their Charter
- IPR Policy – Creative Commons Share-Alike Attribution
- Mail list and archives

This Work Group is open to the public and ANY interested party may sign up to Participate. If you or your colleagues would like to join this group, simply complete the Group Participation Agreement.

John Bradley will convene the group and welcomes you to join our kick off conference call on Wednesday, June 2, 7am PDT where we will discuss goals, scope and leadership nominations. The group will meet on a weekly basis towards the IOP at Burton Catalyst in San Diego end of July, reverting to bi-weekly thereafter.

For more information on the Interoperability Workgroup, please visit the Federation Interoperability home page here: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/fiwg/Home