Kantara Identity Assurance

The Kantara Initiative was announced on April 20, 2009, by leaders of several foundations and associations working on various aspects of digital identity, aka "the Venn of Identity". It is intended to be a robust and well-funded focal point for collaboration to address the issues we each share across the identity community:
• Interoperability and Compliance;
• Testing;
• Identity Assurance;
• Policy and Legal Issues;
• Privacy;
• Ownership and Liability;
• UX and Usability;
• Cross-Community Coordination and Collaboration;
• Education and Outreach;
• Market Research;
• Use Cases and Requirements;
• Harmonization; and
• Tool Development.
The thinking behind Kantara Initiative dates back to the spring of 2008, when these leaders, individuals, organizations and community members started with a blank slate, discussing consumer and industry needs and trying to determine how to best meet these needs. (…) finally arriving at a basic plan that represented consensus among the team and a new approach through a bicameral leadership model. Legal work was then completed against the spirit of what was trying to be accomplished, and significant due diligence was done by various legal teams to assure that bylaws, operating procedures and IPR agreements met the needs of the new organization. Membership is growing quickly as individuals, developers, organizations, governments, technology providers, and enterprises recognize the new opportunities afforded to them through the Kantara Initiative.

De agenda http://kantarainitiative.org/wordpress/about/ biedt een aardig inzicht in wat er wereldwijd rondom IA / IDM speelt.

The Identity Assurance Work Group (IAWG) http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/idassurance/Home has been formed within the Kantara Initiative to foster the adoption of trusted on-line identity services. To advance this goal, the IAEG will provide a forum for identifying and resolving obstacles to market and commercial acceptance that have limited broad deployment and adoption of trusted identity services thus far. The first step will be development of a global standard framework and the necessary support programs for assessing identity service providers (IdSPs) against criteria that determine the level of assurance that a relying party (RP) may assume in evaluating identity claims provided by those IdSPs. The framework and processes will be defined in a way that scales, empowers business processes and benefits individual users of identity assurance services. The framework will be the basis upon which IdSPs, RPs and their services can be certified as compliant with common policies, business rules and baseline commercial terms, avoiding redundant compliance efforts and market confusion about the substance and value of identity assurance delivered. Read the proposed Work Group charter at http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/idassurance/Charter.