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 | |
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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 & 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | 2016 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |