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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 | Â Resources | Initiated | |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | Â 2019 |
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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 |
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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 | 2016 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | |
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tScheme | ARB &Â 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 |
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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 |