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 & Information Sharing Interop WGs

Kay Chopard (July 2021)

Ramesh Kesanupalli Privacy in the realm of Consent, UMA & the Assurance Program Liaison_agreement_DIDAlliance KI-DIDA Executed 2020

Digital Identity New Zealand

Full org, primarily the Assurance Trust Framework program and the Identity Assurance WG & Information Sharing Interop WG

Kay Chopard (July 2021)

Colin Wallis  Mutual support, knowledge sharing and awareness DINZ-KI-MoU FE
(Terminated by DINZ effective April 7, 2023)
2020
the Arena for Data Protection Professionals Consent Management, Consent Receipt, UMA and the Assurance Program Kay Chopard (July 2021) Penny Heyes Consent Management, Consent Receipt, UMA and the Assurance Program KI TTB MoU Jan 2020 Executed 2020
Financial Data Exchange Consent & Information Sharing WG, Consent Management WG,and the Assurance Program Kay Chopard (July 2021) Don Cardinal Consent Receipt & associated framework, UMA and the Assurance Program Press Release
Kantara Consent Receipt Infographic -v02
2019
CARIN Alliance Health Identity Assurance WG, UMA, Consent Receipt & the Assurance Program Kay Chopard (July 2021) 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
FIDO Alliance Full org but mostly IAWG Kay Chopard (July 2021) Christina Hulka or David Turner (2021) The purpose of this liaison is to support a study period on identity proofing with respect to Biometrics Reciprocal website posts 2018
EEMA Logo EEMA
(European Association for e-identity and security)
Full org but mostly
IAWG
CISWG
Kay Chopard (July 2021) 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 Logo PDEC
(Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium)
CIS WG Kay Chopard (July 2021) 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 Logo DIACC
(Digital Identity and Authentication Council of Canada)
Full org but mostly IAWG CISWG Matt Thompson (2021) Dave Nikolejsin 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
Open Consent Group Logo OCG (Open Consent Group Ltd) Full org but mostly CIS WG, UMA WG Kay Chopard (July 2021) 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 Logo NATE
(National Association of Health Exchange)
Full org but mostly
HIAWG
IAWG
Colin Wallis 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 Logo FuGen Solutions (acquired by SecureKloud Technologies Inc) Full org but mostly FIWG IAWG eGov Colin Wallis 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
SAFE-BioPharma Logo SAFE-BioPharma Organizational Colin Wallis Peter Alterman The parties agree that to further their common goal of collaboration, designated representatives of each shall be welcome to join in and participate in the work groups and activities of the other as they relate to advancing the goals expressed above. Each party has the right to identify work groups and activities in which participation by the other’s representatives is felt to be inappropriate and therefore disallowed. 2014 (ceased 2019 following SAFE-BioPharma’s cessation) Agreement
EHNAC Logo EHNAC Full Org
HIAWG
IAWG
Kay Chopard (July 2021) Lee Barrett Relating to the DirectTrust community, operationally, EHNAC and the Kantara Initiative Assurance Review Board will form a “tiger team” to identify shared benefits and value from mutual recognition by each organization. In particular the areas of coverage overlap may include Registration Authority at the level end-point of the user, organizational trust (operations and best practices of the applying organizations in general) and potentially operations of Identity Federations (Federation Operator guidelines). 2013 Press

Agreement

Direct Trust Logo Direct Trust Full Org
HIAWG
IAWG
Kay Chopard (July 2021) Scott Steuwe DirectTrust.org and Kantara Initiative seek to help provide the common and basic elements needed to support a single health Internet/cyberspace identity to be broadly used by health care professionals as they obtain a variety of online credentials. 2012 Press

Agreement

tScheme ARB & Assurance Program

IAWG

Kay Chopard (July 2021) 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
Open Identity Exchange Assurance Trust Framework Joni Brennan Don Thibeau Trust Framework and Registry Link 2010
ITU-T SG17 Full Org
IAWG
eGovWG
Scott Shorter Martin Euchner (ITU-T Rep) / Abbie Barbir Kantara initiative and ITU-T SG 17 established liaison agreement according to Recommendations ITU-T A.4 (Communication Process), and A.5 (Organizations Qualified for Including References in ITU-T Recommendations). This applies to the entire Study Group 17, all Questions, incl identity management Question Q10/17 and all its work items with special focus on ITU-T SG17 work item x.eaa. 2009 Work Space