• 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

Registration is open 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.

Early bird registration is available until March 16, 2012. 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.

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!

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

• Rainer Hoerbe, Chairman
• Colin Wallis, Vice Chairman
• Keith Uber, Secretary

The eGovernment Work Group is responsible for:

• Facilitating collaboration and discussion among Kantara members with an interest in eGovernment identity management applications and services
• Acting as a forum to discuss best practices by government organizations on national, regional and municipal levels
• Presenting “a government view” into other Kantara Initiative Work Groups so that these views may be taken into account in the development of Kantara Initiative Policy – Recommendations and Specifications for future contribution to an appropriate Standards Setting Organization
• Promoting the development, adoption and support for eGovernment deployment profiles of open specifications

Many thanks to Colin Wallis for leading the Work Group over the past few years. We look forward to his continued support alongside Rainer Hoerbe and Keith Uber in moving the work of this group and Kantara forward.

Join the eGoverment Work Group: http://signup.kantarainitiative.org/?selectedGroup=15
Review the Charter: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/eGov/Charter
Mail list and Archives: http://kantarainitiative.org/pipermail/wg-egov/
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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
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We offer our support and congratulations again to John & Bob as they continue to carry the work of the group and Kantara forward.

“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

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

Leif Johansson is the Chair of the Kantara Initiative Assurance Review Board and sits on Kantara Initiative Assurance Review Board Kantara’s Interoperability Review Board.

He is also the co-chair of the IETF ABFAB working group, a member of Internet2 MACE & Terena ECAM. He is the SUNET contact for the Kantara Initiative as well as a contributor/owner of various open source-projects.

Leif comes from Sweden and is a system specialist at NORDUNet A/S working on digital identity and federation for SUNET (the Swedish University Network) and the Swedish government.

Leif is the chair of the ABFAB working group in the IETF is the author of several internet drafts and an active participant in various Terena activities.

Leif is a participant in other Terena activities such as SCS, refeds,TCS, tf-ace, tf-emc2 and tf-mnm. He is the author of internet-drafts on Kerberos server information models and HTTP authentication using GSS-API.

Leif is a member of the technical team for the Swedish Alliance for Middleware Infrastructure (SWAMI) and a member of the technical reference group of the Swedish University Network (SUNET). He is also part of the operations team for the SWAMI identity federation, responsible for the technical operation of SAML federation.

Leif has a background in mathematics and has co-authored papers on topics ranging from identity management to scientific papers in mathematics where he has conducted research in the field of A_{\inf} spaces.

Leif lives just north of Stockholm with his wife and 3 kids and enjoys (cooking) good food. He also likes to sample local brews when traveling.

We’re proud to have Leif’s participation and leadership – his knowledge and experience is appreciated.

Please join us in congratulating re-elected leadership of Kantara Initiative’s Identity Assurance Work Group.

Myisha Frazier-McElveen, Truestone – Chair
Rich Furr, Safe BioPharma – Co-chair

The Identity Assurance Work Group  was formed within the Kantara Initiative to foster the adoption of trusted on-line identity services. To advance this goal, the group will provide a forum for identifying and resolving obstacles to market and commercial acceptance that have limited broad deployment and adoption of trusted identity services thus far.

Join the Identity Assurance Work Group: http://signup.kantarainitiative.org/?selectedGroup=12
Review the Charter: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/idassurance/Charter
Mail list and Archives: http://kantarainitiative.org/pipermail/wg-idassurance/
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We offer our support and congratulations again to them as they continue to carry the work of the group and Kantara forward.

Please join us in congratulating re-elected leadership of Kantara Initiative’s Information Sharing Work Group.

Joe Andieu – Co-chair
Judi Clark – Secretary
Iain Henderson – Co-chair

The goal of this working group is to identify and document the use cases and scenarios that illustrate the various sub-sets of user driven information, the benefits therein, and specify the policy and technology enablers that should be put in place to enable this information to flow.

Join the Information Sharing Work Group: http://signup.kantarainitiative.org/?selectedGroup=3
Review the Charter: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Charter
Mail list and Archives: https://groups.google.com/group/wg-infosharing?hl=en
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We offer our support and congratulations again to them as they continue to carry the work of the group and Kantara forward.