And http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/061709-intel-oracle-paypal-back-id.html
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On Jun 17, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Brian Kissel wrote:
FYI
http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-17-2009/0005045549&EDATE=
Kantara Initiative Reshapes Global Identity Landscape Based on
Industry-Wide Collaboration, Announces Initial Focus Areas
Representatives from Internet Society and Oracle elected to
leadership positions as growing membership base works to bridge
identity technologies, initiatives and organizations
WASHINGTON, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 45 organizations from the
global identity and Internet communities today announced the launch
of Kantara Initiative, a new organization formed to solve the
harmonization and interoperability challenges that currently exist
among identity-enabled enterprise, Web 2.0 and Web-based
applications and services. Kantara Initiative has been founded to
collaboratively foster the innovation required for broad adoption of
interoperable identity-enabled solutions across industries, regions
and fixed and mobile networks. As of today's launch, nearly 20
initial work and discussion groups have been proposed by the growing
Kantara Initiative community. Kantara Initiative will hold a public
webcast to overview the new organization on Wednesday, June, 24 at
8:00am US PT (3:00pm UTC).
The launch of Kantara Initiative comes after a year of strategic
planning involving stakeholders representing the entire identity
ecosystem. This planning focused on how to best move the industry
forward as the enterprise identity landscape continues to evolve and
use of social networking and Web 2.0 applications rapidly
proliferates, with growing interaction between these three markets
driving new use cases and identity requirements. With zero barriers
to participation and founding principles based on transparency,
inclusion, empowerment, innovation, collaboration and openness,
members of the community are leveraging the successes and
experiences of each other to drive holistic, interoperable and
trusted identity solutions into the global marketplace.
"The identity product and service market grows more complex every
month, and as the market gets more moving parts, there are more and
more requirements for all those parts to work together. The parts
aren't going to work together unless the part makers work together
-- and that's why today's announcement is important," said Bob
Blakley, principal analyst, The Burton Group. "The Kantara
Initiative is helping to bridge identity initiatives and
organizations, which can help set the stage for better collaboration
in the global identity sector."
Board of Trustees and Leadership Council - Fostering Innovation and
Collaboration Based on a Bicameral Governance Model
The Kantara Initiative has been established based on a bicameral
governance model where the Board of Trustees and Leadership Council
work hand-in-hand as peers in steering the direction of the
organization. The bicameral model ensures that all members and
participants can have a voice within Kantara Initiative.
With today's news, Roger Sullivan, vice president Oracle Identity
Management, has been elected president of the 2009 Kantara
Initiative Board of Trustees and J. Trent Adams, outreach
specialist, trust & identity, Internet Society, has been elected
chair of the Leadership Council. Initial Board of Trustee members
include AOL, BT, CA, Intel, Internet Society, Fidelity Investments,
Novell, NRI, NTT, Oracle, PayPal and Sun Microsystems.
Representatives from Intel and the New Zealand government have
Leadership Council seats on the Board of Trustees.
According to Sullivan, "The problems the global identity industry
faces today are not just about technology, but rather a combination
of business policy and privacy requirements, balanced against
interoperability, usability, as well as technology harmonization.
All of these issues need to be addressed for identity-enabled
solutions to succeed and for deployers to leverage their benefits.
Kantara Initiative is uniquely positioned to address these needs."
A Holistic View - Technology, Policy and Proven Interoperability
The Kantara Initiative structure has been designed to foster the
development of new identity-related technology and policy
initiatives from initial proof-of-concept and incubation, to go-to-
market and long-term adoption strategies. Existing projects moving
into Kantara Initiative will benefit from additional community input
which will include identifying new use cases, support for adding
functionality, and opportunities for proving interoperability with
other projects, initiatives and technologies.
All output from Kantara Initiative will be based on open standards
with the goal of ensuring end user convenience, security and
privacy. A commitment to open standards means the Kantara Initiative
community will collaborate on projects that make use of all of the
identity frameworks, protocols and specifications in the marketplace
today. This means solutions could be built based on one or a
combination of several IAF, ID-WSF, IGF, Information Card, OAuth,
OpenID SAML 2.0, WS-*, XACML and XDI standards.
Focus Spanning Identity Initiatives - Nearly 20 Work and Discussion
Groups in Progress Today
The Kantara Initiative name, which is Swahili for "bridge" and has
Arabic roots in "harmony," was announced at the April 2009 RSA
Conference and since then members of the identity community have
proposed nearly 20 initial work and discussion groups. All groups
are open to every Kantara Initiative member as well as to the
public, and anyone can suggest a new group to the Leadership Council
at any time. Groups are formed by members and participants to
address common issues and problems related to specific industries.
Proposed groups, which are being approved on an ongoing basis by the
Leadership Council, include Concordia Use Cases, eGovernment,
Federated Identity Model Agreement & Commentary (FIMAC), Health
Identity and Assurance, Identity Assurance and Accreditation,
Identity Provider Selection, Identity Theft Prevention, ID-WSF
Evolution (OAuth Extensions), Japan, Multi-Protocol Identity
Selector, Multi-Protocol Relying Party Deployment, Privacy and
Public Policy, Telecommunications Identity, User Driven Information
Technology and Volunteered Personal Information (VPI). A list of all
of the groups in progress is available at http://kantarainitiative.org/wordpress/?page_id=6
"It's clear that Kantara Initiative brings together the right mix of
collaborators to help shepherd the next generation of identity
solutions. Specifically, our goal is to facilitate the development
of solutions that are interoperable, secure and privacy-respecting.
And importantly, the work is being done in an open and transparent
fashion," said Adams. "Collaboration between identity communities
and initiatives within Kantara Initiative will lead to more trusted
identity-enabled applications and services. This fits squarely into
the Internet Society vision of an Internet Ecosystem where the
continued development and adoption of Internet technologies includes
a broad range of participants with dispersed ownership and control."
About Kantara Initiative
Kantara Initiative has been formed by Concordia Project,
DataPortablity Project, Information Card Foundation, Internet
Society, Liberty Alliance, OpenLiberty.org and XDI.org. The Kantara
Initiative membership structure is unique in that it has been
organized to ensure that there are zero barriers to participation.
Membership levels allow for maximum industry-wide participation and
include Participant, Member and Trustee categories, which
individuals and organizations join depending on the size of the
organization and type of desired participation. The Kantara
Initiative membership structure, levels, fees and governance model
are outlined at http://kantarainitiative.org/wordpress/?page_id=8 .
A complete membership and chair list is available athttp://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/GI/Current+Members
.
About the June 24 Kantara Initiative Public Webcast
Hosted by Brett McDowell, executive director, Kantara Initiative,
Roger Sullivan and J.Trent Adams, the public webcast, Kantara
Initiative, Shaping the Future of Digital Identity, takes place on
Wednesday, June, 24 at 8:00am US PT. The one-hour event will provide
participants with an overview of Kantara Initiative including a
review of goals, structure and opportunities for all members of the
global identity community to participate in the organization.
Registration and more information is available at http://tinyurl.com/nsw3n5
Follow Kantara Initiative (#Kantara) on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/KantaraNews
Follow Kantara Initiative on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/KantaraInitiative
Follow Kantara Initiative on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kantarainitiative/
Follow Kantara Initiative on SlideShare:
http://www.slideshare.net/kantarainitiative
Follow the Kantara Initiative Blog:
http://kantarainitiative.org/wordpress/?page_id=29
CONTACT:
Russ DeVeau
Kantara Initiative
www.kantarainitiative.org
Mobile: 908-251-1549
Office - 954-530-2850
[email protected]
[email protected]
Cheers,
Brian
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