Catch the round up of recent updates from Kantara Initiative:

• Authorization Standards Workshop at Burton Catalyst San Diego, July 27, 12:30-2:30pm
• Merger of Kantara’s IdP Selection WG into ULX WG
• Kantara Initiative Meeting, Oct. 19-21, Paris, France hosted by Orange-FT
• Kantara Initiative announces the formation of the Federation Interoperability Work Group (FIWG)
• Kantara Initiative Announces Identity Assurance Framework 2.0
• Announcing Yasuhisa Sakamoto & Toshihiro Suzuki as Kantara Initiative’s Japan WG co-chairs
• Kantara Initiative Engages Drummond Group to Manage Global Interoperability Program
• Comparing OAuth and UMA – by Eve Maler
• Kantara speakers featured at Burton Catalyst Prague, June 21-24, 2010
• Kantara Initiative Webcast via BrightTALK: Identity Assurance Frameworks within Federated IAM Systems, May 6 - listen and view the audio of this Webcast
• Catch up on recent activities at industry events: UMA at EIC 2010, IIW X round-up
• What exactly is “open” in Open Identity?
• Industry events – contact Dervla O’Reilly regarding discounted conference rates: pii2010, August 17-19, Seattle, Hacker Halted October 9-15 Miami, WHIT 6.0 Nov. 8-10 Washington D.C., Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit November 15-16 San Diego

The Leadership Council has approved the merger IdP Selection Work Group into the Universal Login Experience (ULX) Work Group. Effective immediately the IdP Selection Work Group has shut down, therefore the workspace has been archived and the list serve is closed.

Philippe Clemement, Chair of the IdP Selection Work Group will continue to work with the ULX WG as co-chair alongside Michael Graves, Bob Morgan & Paul Trevithick.

We encourage you to join the ULX WG by simply completing the Group Participation Agreement here: http://signup.kantarainitiative.org/?selectedGroup=17. Please note the common charter reflects minor updates as noted here: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/ulx/Charter.

Thanks to those who participated directly or indirectly to this great work around the IdP Selection concept, we look forward to continued participation in the ULX WG.

Catch the round up of recent updates from Kantara Initiative:

• Featuring Paul Trevithick, co-founder and co-chair of the Universal Login Experience (ULX) WG
• Announcing leadership of Kantara Initiative Work Groups: Consumer Identity WG, P3WG, Healthcare Identity Assurance WG, IdP Selection WG, Telecommunications Identity WG
• Public workshop: Making the world safe for user-managed access at EIC, May 4, Munich
• Kantara Initiative’s RSA Security Pre-Conference Workshop, March 1 2010
• A round up of work from DG/WGs at the recent Kantara Initiative Conference in Oregon: Concordia, eGov, IdP Selection, ID-WSF Evo, TelCo ID, UMA
• Identity Assurance, an everyday life issue – articles from the IA WG Chair
• Concordia DG Authz and LOA Surveys
• Executive Director Search: Job Description
• Identity Matters: eGovernment
• Kantara Initiative’s UMA WG webinar: UMA explained – listen and watch the recording
• Identity Matters: User Managed Access
• Announcing Government of Canada Consultation on Cyber Authentication
• Identity Assurance WG testimony to Health IT Committee and NHIN
• Industry events – contact Dervla O’Reilly regarding discounted conference rates: Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit June 21-23 Maryland, Hacker Halted October 9-15 Miami, WHIT 6.0 Nov. 8-10 Washington D.C., Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit November 15-16 San Diego