Liaisons and Partner Agreements

Kantara Initiative is a consensus building organization. Members join Kantara to stay abreast of, and to influence, our industry leading liaison organizations. The list keeps growing! To discuss liaison opportunities for your organization contact us!

	Liaison	Type	KI Contact	External Contact	Scope	Resources	Initiated
	DID Alliance – renamed Accountable Digital Identity (ADI) Association in 2021	Full org, primarily the Assurance Trust Framework program, the Identity Assurance WG & Anchored Notice and Consent Receipt Work Group	Kay Chopard	Ramesh Kesanupalli	Privacy in the realm of Consent, UMA & the Assurance Program	Liaison_agreement_DIDAlliance KI-DIDA Executed	2020
	the Arena for Data Protection Professionals	Consent Management, Consent Receipt, UMA and the Assurance Program	Kay Chopard	Penny Heyes	Consent Management, Consent Receipt, UMA and the Assurance Program	KI TTB MoU Jan 2020 Executed	2020
	Financial Data Exchange	ANCR, Consent Management WG,and the Assurance Program	Kay Chopard	Don Cardinal	Consent Receipt & associated framework, UMA and the Assurance Program	Press Release Kantara Consent Receipt Infographic -v02	2019
	CARIN Alliance	Identity Assurance WG	Kay Chopard	Ryan Howells	The primary purpose of this liaison is to leverage Kantara’s 3rd party conformity assessment and Trust Mark grant for NIST SP 800-63-3, plus its user control specifications in support of TEFCA compliance.	Kantara.CARIN.liaison.PR.Final	2019
	EEMA (European Association for e-identity and security)	Full org but mostly IAWG ANCR WG	Kay Chopard	Jon Shamah	The purpose of this MOU is to formally recognise the common aims and juxtaposition between the two organizations that already exists, and seek to be supportive of each other to our mutual and wider collective benefit.	MOU Press	2016
	PDEC (Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium)	ANCR WG	Kay Chopard	Dean Landsman	The purpose of this MOU is to formally recognise the common aims and juxtaposition between the two organizations that already exists, and seek to be supportive of each other to our mutual and wider collective benefit.	MOU Press	2016
	DIACC (Digital Identity and Authentication Council of Canada)	Full org but mostly IAWG ANCR WG	Kay Chopard	Joni Brennan	The Digital Identity Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC) and Kantara Initiative (KI) seek to collaborate on the advancement of market maturity of trusted services for digital identity, authentication, and authorization. The DIACC aligns local Canadian priorities in the context of global interoperability with regard to DIACC initiatives and innovations, where KI focuses on a global approach that respects the authority, culture, and regulations of individual jurisdictions.	Letter of Intent	2016
	OCG (Open Consent Group Ltd)	Full org but mostly ANCR WG, UMA WG	Kay Chopard	Mark Lizar	The purpose of this Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is to collaborate on service development and support each other to our mutual and wider community benefit. Kantara Initiative intends to further build its awareness and service revenues in Europe by means of establishing a subsidiary of or affiliated organization in a full Member State in Europe. Open Consent Group is building a coalition to grow into a community interest company for consent and compliance under Article 80 of the new EU GDPR, with a global set of stakeholders.	MOU	2016
	NATE (National Association of Health Exchange)	Full org but mostly IAWG	Kay Chopard	Aaron Seib	Kantara Initiative (KI) and the National Association of Health Exchange (NATE) wish to collaborate on the advancement of health data use and exchange. This collaboration will involve a number of mutual projects and initiatives related to health data liberation and its associated technical aspects.	MOU Press	2015
	FuGen Solutions (acquired by SecureKloud Technologies Inc)	Full org but mostly IAWG eGov		Lena Kannappan	Kantara Initiative and FuGen Solutions (now part of 8K Miles) seek to support interoperability through the execution of this Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) where Kantara Initiative adopts FuGen Solutions as a Kantara Initiative Test Lab to verify SAML 2.0 interoperability. As part of this MoU, FuGen Solutions and Kantara Initiative agree to promote the SAML 2.0 deployment profile verification programs via their respective networks.	MOU Press	2014
	tScheme	ARB & Assurance Program IAWG	Kay Chopard	Richard Trevorah & Phil Flaxton	Technical assistance regarding the Assurance Framework operations & conformity assessment best practice, and participation on the ARB	2009-12	email exchanges with Executive Directors
	ISO SC 27 N10363	Full Org	Colin Wallis Andrew Hughes	Sobhi Mahmoud (2021)	1.27.55 (29101) 1.27.57 (X.eaa I 29115) 1.27.80 (29190)2900329184	2010, 2011	Work Space