Kevin Cox is a participant in the Kantara Initiative’s User-Managed Access (UMA) Work Group. His interest in User-Managed Access stems from a long experience in user interface design and the construction of information systems with a user focus.

Kevin blogs at http://cscoxk.wordpress.com. The blog is subtitled “the implications of giving users control over their online information”. In 2004 Kevin founded Edentiti a company whose objective is to give users control over electronic information about themselves. The first Edentiti product greenID gives an individual tools to verify their own electronic identities. With this product the individual becomes their own Identity Provider. The tools for a person being their own Identity Provider are the same as the tools used by third party Identity Providers. However, the resulting system is less expensive to operate while protecting privacy and increasing trust.

In UMA terminology Edentiti is currently designing and developing tools to allow an individual to be their own Authorisation Manager (AM). It is believed that the same advantages of a person being their own Identity Provider will hold when a person becomes their own Authorising Manager. The underlying software and user interface components will be the same or similar but the emergent properties of increased trust, privacy protection and lower cost will emerge because the person is their own AM.

Kevin wrote his first program in 1962 and ran it on a machine, in a chocolate factory, that was a commercial development of the computer used in code cracking during the second world war. Kevin has been an active participant, in many roles, as computers have changed from helping calculations to systems that expand our intellect and enhance our ability to communicate with others.

We’re very happy to have Kevin’s leadership and knowledge.

Kantara Summit at EIC – April 17, 2012

• Mapping The Identity Ecosystem: A multi-national perspective – Christine Runnegar, Senior Policy Advisor, ISOC - slides
• Trust Frameworks: Tools to build the Identity Ecosystem – It takes a village! – Joni Brennan, Executive Director, Kantara Initiative - slides
• eGov SAML 2: Verifying Interoperability in eGovernment Scenarios – Colin Wallis, Authentication Standards Manager, DIA New Zealand Government - slides
  • Managing Profiles – David Simonsen, WAYF - slides
• Federation Interoperability, SAML2INT, Listing Service – John Bradley, Identity Domain Expert - slides
• OpenID Connect Deployment Verification Tool Demo – Roland Hedberg, Umeå University, Sweden, GEANT3, Terena - slides
• Edentity presenting “Experience of Federating Personal Data with User-Managed Access – Kevin Cox - link to preso
• UMA Interop – Mario Hoffmann, Fraunhofer AISEC - slides

Kantara Workshop, Garching, Munich – hosted by Fraunhofer AISEC – April 13-14, 2012

• Fraunhofer AISEC – introduction and overview - slides
• Demo 1: Mikael Ates, Entr’ouvert – Authentic 2 - slides
• Demo 2: Mikael Ates, Entr’ouvert – roleID Project; European Collaborative Project - slides
• Demo 3: Mario Hoffmann, Fraunhofer AISEC – Location Aware Recommendation Service - demo slides
• Demo 4: David Simonsen, WAYF – Calculating the Economic Benefit of ID Federation – demo recording
• Kantara: Building a Healthy ID Ecosystem - slides
• UMA Interop – Mario Hoffmanm, Fraunhofer AISEC - demo video

Join us next week in Munich for the Kantara Spring Workshop, April 13-14, 2012.  The event is kindly hosted by Fraunhofer AISEC in Garching, just outside Munich, Germany.

The focus for the workshop is; strategic planning, Interoperability, eGovernment, NSTIC and more. Kantara’s Board of Trustees and Working/Discussion Groups will meet to focus on forward planning and future goals.

We hope you can join us in Munich. Contact dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org if any questions.

Registration: http://kantaramunichmtg.eventbrite.com/

Agenda: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/GI/Kantara+Initiative+Conferences

Please Note: Non-member Independents/Contributors/Students who register by the early-bird deadline are entitled to credit their meeting registration towards an Individual Contributor level membership.

Early bird registration ends March 16 for the Kantara Initiative meeting April 13-14, 2012. Many thanks to Fraunhofer SIT who will facilitate us at their meeting offices in Garching, just outside Munich, Germany.

We invite you to join us at our 2-day event where Kantara’s Board of Trustees (BoT), Leadership Council (LC), Discussion Groups (DGs) and Working Groups (WGs) will convene.

With our pricing structure, you can sign up for 1 day or the full 2-day event.

Please Note: Non-member Independents/Contributors/Students who register by the early-bird deadline are entitled to credit their meeting registration towards an Individual Contributor level membership.

Review the current agenda and specific event logistics in detail at our events wiki space.

Registration: http://kantaramunichmtg.eventbrite.com

We look forward to seeing you in Germany.

What: Kantara Initiative Summit
When: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 8:00am-1:30pm, Room location TBD
Where: Dolce Ballhaus Forum, Andreas-Danzer-Weg, 85716 Unterschleißheim, Munich, Germany
(at the European Identity Conference 2012)

Description: 2012 brings new opportunities for identity services in the eGovernment and private markets.
Gain “state-of-identity” insights through a series of presentations of common scenarios from diverse market leaders.

We will focus on Trust Framework Model, deployment interoperability, and what your organization can do to get involved. We also look forward some open-time Q&A as well as learning more about the experiences the attendees would like to share.

The User Managed Access (UMA) Interop will show some UMA real-world implementations including: SMARTAM.org and Fraunhofer AISEC.

We are also looking forward to hearing feedback and questions from the audience as input to the discussions.

Registration: Register for the Kantara Summit via EIC Conference.  40 persons max. capacity.

Agenda:

We invite you to join us for the second ID Collaboration Day, February 27,2012 in San Francisco, prior to the RSA Conference.

Regular registration at $175 ends on February 20, the fee thereafter is $225.

Registration: http://idcollab2.eventbrite.com/

Breakfast/Registration begins at 8am.   Agenda creation begins at 9am and the event closes at 5pm.

Last year’s event was a successful collaboration between IIW/IDCommons and Kantara Initiative. This year IDTrust & OASIS are additional collaborating organization.

We are excited about the opportunity that RSA brings with the wide range of security professionals in town that week.

Managed and organized by and like IIW – the agenda will be created live and in real time the morning of the event.  This provides the opportunity for a range of real work to be done in real time about key emerging topics and issues.

You can see topics from previous events on the IIW wiki - http://iiw.idcommons.net

The venue is the same location as last year – close to downtown and a short cab, subway or taxi ride from Moscone Center.

Draft Agenda:

8:00 Registration & Breakfast
9-10 Agenda Creation
10-11 Session 1
11-12 Session 2
12-1 Lunch
1-2 Session 3
2-3 Session 4
3-4 Session 5
4-5 Closing

• 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

Lucy Lynch is the Secretary & Treasurer for Kantara Initiative. Lucy has been involved with Kantara since it’s inception in 2009.

Lucy is Director of Trust and Identity Initiatives with the Internet Society (ISOC) and her role is to examine some of the major issues affecting the Internet and to develop projects that will address those problems. Prior to joining the Internet Society, Lucy worked at the University of Oregon as a member of the Academic Computing and Network Applications Group. Her assignments with the University included work with the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) – a long-time partner with the Internet Society in bringing network technology and education to the developing world.

In addition, she has been an active participant in both the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and recently completed a term as Chair of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC).

Lucy holds a Master’s degree in Mass Communications from the University of Oregon and has a long history of service in non-profit organizations ranging from mental health counseling to a hands-on science museum. She has been a grant writer, project manager, and a computer programmer. She also once managed the Flying Karamazov Brothers (www.fkb.com/) and hopes to put that unique non-linear managerial experience to good use as she directs new efforts for the Internet Society.

Lucy lives in Eugene, Oregon, USA and travels extensively for work. When not traveling Lucy likes reading books and enjoying the outdoors.

We’re very happy to have Lucy leadership and knowledge.

Kantara Initiative and the community would like to thank John Bradley as Chair for his hard work and leadership over the past year in spearheading the work of the Leadership Council alongside Pete Palmer and Lara Zimberoff.  John will be missed, although we’re glad to continue working closely with him as we move Kantara’s work forward.

Please join us in congratulating new leadership of the Leadership Council:

• Chairman: Pete Palmer
• Vice Chairman: Rich Furr

We’d also like to take the opportunity to thank Lara Zimberoff, Secretary, for her continued support to the group.

Congratulations!

“What is UMA and why do we need it?”

In a nutshell, User-Managed Access (UMA) is…

UMA is needed by…

• Individuals, to give them a “personal data concierge” that handles requests for access to their online data, content, and services
• Websites, to enable them to offer sophisticated data-sharing features to their users without having to implement those features natively
• Online identity providers, to offer their users the ability to set access policies from a single place even if those users engage with dozens or hundreds of sites and apps on a regular basis

This webinar will…

• Discuss real-life use cases for UMA
• Demonstrate UMA implementations
• Review UMA’s architecture and its relationship to the OAuth and OpenID Connect specifications

Register now!
UMA WG details