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
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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
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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.

Kantara Initiative is pleased to announce leadership of the Attribute Management Discussion Group (AMDG).

Sal D’Agostino (IDmachines) – Chair
Keith Hazelton (University of Wisconson – Madison) – Vice-chair
Heather Flanagan (Internet2) – Secretary

Please join in welcoming Sal, Keith & Heather – we look forward to the efforts and new work to come from the Attribute Management Discussion Group.

The purpose of this Discussion Group is to:
IDENTIFY: Kantara Initiative stakeholder requirements regarding Attribute Management.
DISCOVER: Attribute Management activities under development both internal and external to Kantara Initiative.
GAP ANALYSIS: Attribute Management Kantara Initiative stakeholder requirements compared to work under development (both internal and external to Kantara Initiative)
RECOMMEND: scope of work, potential Kantara Initiative adoption of external works, collaboration with external organizations and/or new WG in KI to perform design phase of Attribute Management based on requirements, discovery and gap analysis.

Join the Attribute Management Discussion Group: http://signup.kantarainitiative.org/?selectedGroup=31
Review the Charter: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/AMDG/Charter
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View the video and slide presentation at the Share experience in Identity Federation and Electronic Identities – Sept. 28, 2011, Sweden

A presentation by Joni Brennan, Executive Director of Kantara Initiative - The Bridge to Communities Assurance, Governance and Technical Interoperability

Video Presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHFqMUe04lQ&feature=youtu.be

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/kantarainitiative/kantara-a-global-context-2011

Piscataway, NJ – November 1, 2011: The Kantara Initiative announced today the final approval of their Trust Framework Provider (TFP) program as the only Approved US Government TFP certifying Levels of Assurance (LoA) 1, 2 and 3 non-crypto (non-PKI) [1].

This announcement follows the recent Office Management Budget (OMB) memo to US Chief Information Officers (CIOs) [2] which requires LoA 1 certified credentials be implemented within 90 days of the first TFP final approval for new websites or when existing websites are enhanced or upgraded and LoA 2 and 3 non-crypto certified credentials be adopted for higher value US Government agency services within the near term.

Lucy Lynch, Director of Trust and Identity Initiatives, Internet Society, said, “The final approval of Kantara Initiative’s Identity Credential Access Management (ICAM) Trust Framework Provider program marks a major milestone in the advancement and adoption of well-assured credentials for use to access US Government on-line services. This emerging public-private partnership can also serve as an example for the deployment of similar multi-national and multi-stakeholder programs.“

The Kantara Identity Assurance Accreditation and Certification Program [3] is committed to the adoption of the Trust Framework model as the means to build a public-private partnership to assure trust in the identity-based experience of End Users, Relying Parties and Federation Operators. Kantara-Accredited Assessors perform Assessments of Credential Service Providers (also known as Identity Providers) based on the Kantara Initiative’s Identity Assurance Framework.

“Consistent with the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), the Federal government has pledged to be an early adopter of credentialing solutions certified through Trust Framework Providers,” said Jeremy Grant, who is leading the implementation of NSTIC as Senior Executive Advisor for Identity Management at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). “Approval of the Kantara Initiative Identity Assurance Accreditation and Certification Program marks a major milestone in the advancement of a public-private partnership toward the realization of a more trusted and secure Identity Ecosystem. We commend Kantara for being the first approved Trust Framework Provider, and hope many other organizations will soon also achieve this distinction.”

The Kantara Identity Assurance Accreditation and Certification Program assesses applicants against its assessment criteria ensuring, amongst other things, alignment with the NIST 800-63 Levels of Assurance [4] and grants successful candidates of the program the right to use the Kantara Initiative Mark, a symbol of trustworthy identity and credential management services at specified Assurance Levels.

For further information or to become Kantara ICAM Accredited or Certified please contact support@kantarainitaitive.org.

About Kantara Initiative: 
Kantara Initiative is a global, open, public-private, technology-agnostic forum comprised of identity ecosystem stakeholders. Its inspired mission is to promote federation interoperability and harmonization; to develop policy frameworks for operational interoperability and to provide certification and assessment programs to grow trust in the standards, products, and service deployments. For more information about getting involved in Kantara Initiative, visit http://kantarainitiative.org/

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[1] http://www.idmanagement.gov/pages.cfm/page/IDManagement-open-identity-solutions-for-open-government

[2] http://www.cio.gov/documents/OMBReqforAcceptingExternally_IssuedIdCred10-6-2011.pdf

[3] http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/certification/Identity+Assurance+Certification+Program

[4] http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-63/SP800-63V1_0_2.pdf

Join us for our one-day Identity Summit at the Smart Card Alliance Conference. This Summit will contain presentations, panels and discussion from diverse market leaders discussing industry efforts focused on governance, assurance, certification and in particular how this relates to NSTIC. Learn about current progress and new community efforts underway.

What: Kantara Initiative Identity Summit
When: Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 8:00am-4:00pm
Where: Ronald Reagan Center, Washington D.C., USA (at the Smart Card Alliance Conference 2011)
Complimentary Registration: http://www.cvent.com/d/7dqh6r – please use the code “KW24″ to attendance to the Kantara Summit only. Please select the “One-Day Pre-Conference Workshop” option when registering.

Agenda: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/GI/Kantara+Initiative+Summit+2011+11+01

Contact Dervla O’Reilly, dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org with questions.

Trust and usability are prerequisites for the development of commercial, administrative, social media and other e-services. To enable trust and usability today, secure and easy-to-use e-identification is in the users, service providers and the public interest. Identity federation is a solution that is now beginning to spread and gain in importance.

An identity federation is an association of organizations that have agreed to rely on each others’ electronic identities to facilitate user access and protect personal privacy when using electronic services.

During this workshop, participants will review practical experience in developing and establishing identity federation. Target groups for the workshop are the organizations which operate or plan to establish identity federation, email service providers, credential service providers/identity providers.

Agenda
09:00 Introduction – Presentation of participants: Kantara Initiative – The Bridge to Communities Assurance, Governance and Technical Interoperability
Joni Brennan, Executive Director of Kantara Initiative

10:00 SWAMID – Swedish Academic Identity
Leif Johansson, SUNET

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Kalmar2 and eduGAIN, international collaborations in the Federation area
Valter Nordh, SUNET / GU

11:30 Local Authorities in England (KSL)
Karin Bengtsson, Head of IT Forum (KSL), Stefan Svensson, IT Strategist, City of Stockholm, and Björn Söderlund, IT strategist Lidingö City

12:00 Case Study – Pharmacy Services Ltd
Speakers from the Pharmacy Service AB

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Swedish e-identification
Nils Fjelkegård, E-ID Board

14:00 Market – users and email service providers’ preferences
Staffan Hagnell,. SE
Summary – Is it time to add the next gear in our identity federation?
Thomas Nilsson, Certezza

14:30 Coffee

15:00 Common discussion – Identity federation for what and whom?
The discussion is led by Rolf Lysell, Innotiimi AB
- For which services and users?
- What are the opportunities for cooperation and how we continue the work?

17:00 End

Event details: http://bit.ly/nwzIC9
Complimentary Registration
Location: Finlandshuset Konferens, Snickarbacken 4, Stockholm

Kantara Initiative is pleased to announce the formation of the Attribute Management Discussion Group (AMDG).

The purpose of this Discussion Group is to:

IDENTIFY: Consensus on a working definition of “Attribute” for purposes of fulfilling further bullets below.
IDENTIFY: Kantara Initiative stakeholder requirements regarding Attribute Management.
DISCOVER: Attribute Management activities under development both internal and external to Kantara Initiative.
GAP ANALYSIS: Attribute Management KI stakeholder requirements compared to work under development (both internal and external to KI)
RECOMMEND: scope of work, potential KI adoption of external works, collaboration with external organizations and/or new WG in KI to perform design phase of Attribute Management based on requirements, discovery and gap analysis.

Thanks to Sal D’Agostino, IDmachines who will act as Interim Chair. For more information on the Attribute Management DG, please visit the home page: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/AMDG/Home

Join the Attribute Management DG: http://signup.kantarainitiative.org/?selectedGroup=31
Review the Charter: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/AMDG/Charter
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We welcome your participation!