Kantara Initiative: 'develop, nurture, operate - that's what we do'

1. The Rhythm of Kantara
Colin Wallis, Executive Director
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2. The global consortium improving trustworthy
use of identity and personal data through
innovation, standardization and good practice
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Kantara on a Page
● International business league non-profit US founded 2009. Estonia
non profit founded 2017 (licensee). Educational Foundation
non-profit US founded 2018. US identity ecosystem consortium
(IDESG) assets transitioned 2018
● ‘Commons’ ethics & societal purpose. No/Low barriers to
participation. Passionate about giving back control of identity &
personal data. Consent Receipt and User Managed Access specs
● Mission: the global consortium improving trustworthy use of
identity and personal data through innovation, standardization and
good practice
● Business model: Revenue from Membership, Sponsorship, R&D
and Trust Framework Operations program management invested
in specification development & publishing platform, and
contributions to ISO OECD Internet Technical Advisory Committee
● The only industry consortium to have both identity and personal
data scoped within its mission.
● Global thought-leaders; Organizations & Individuals & Government
Kantara translates to “wooden bridge” in Kiswahili, a hybrid language
between Arabic and Bantu, depicted in Kantara’s ‘bridge’ logo.
Our Liaisons (examples)
Our Leadership
Leadership
Council
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• US Postal Service
• MIT Trust: Data Consortium
• Government of Canada Treasury Board Secretariat
• +50 individuals
• One.Thing.Less
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Kantara’s International Membership
& x10 non-member

5. ‘Thought Leader’ Organizations & Individuals Join Kantara
● Strong Societal Purpose & Ethos for positive corporate image
● Low barriers to participate bring unseen fresh ideas and partnering opportunities
● Collaborate with peers transparently and equitably in an open consensus-based environment
● Develop and publish artefacts on the platform
● Create & Sponsor best practice ‘of but not by’ an organisation
● Seek or leverage conformance, approval and grant of trust mark for solutions for brand differentiation
● Contribute to ISO and other global policy & standards organisations side-stepping national policy & standards bodies
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6. Kantara’s 10 Years Young this Year!

7. Kantara Initiative Organization Structure
Board of Directors
Programs
Trust Operations
Kantara Identity Privacy
Incubator (KIPI)
Leadership Council
Federated Identity Resilient
Ecosystem (FIRE) WG
Identity Assurance WG
Health ID Assurance WG eGovernment WG
Federation Interoperability WG
Identity Proofing & Verification
DG
User-Managed Access WG
Consent & Information Sharing
WG
Consent Management
Solutions WG
Semantic Entity Relationship
Management DG tbc
Executive Director
Assurance Review Board
ISO, OECD etc Liaisons Group
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8. ‘The Rhythm of Kantara’
‘Nurture, Develop, Operate – that’s what we do’
● Nurture emerging technical communities
through our discussion & working groups
and our incubators – present and past
examples: Identity and Privacy R&D (KIPI)
program, incubator for ID Pro.
● Develop and standardize community
practices with specifications companies can
understand, trust and implement.
● Operate conformity assessment programs
to enable companies to meet their
adherence goals to standardized practices
needed to support their business.
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9. Award-Winning, Trend-Setting, Compliance-Assisting Innovations
● Kantara User Managed Access - the world's first open
specification for delegated authorization, extending OAuth 2.0.
Strong interest from GDPR, PSD2, Open Banking and other
sectors. European Identity Conference award winner 2014.
Currently awaiting IETF publication as an international standard
● Kantara Consent Receipt - the world’s first digital receipt
specification for personal data containing the conditions upon
which the consent is given – giving agency over personal data
to individuals. Annexed into International Standard ISO/IEC
29184 Online privacy notices and consent
● Kantara Trust Framework - the world’s first to offer 3rd party
accredited assessment, approval & grant of trust mark to
product & solution service providers for NIST SP 800-63-3.
IDESG’s IDEF scheme added Aug 2018.
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11. Example Deployments of Kantara’s Specifications
The Consent Receipt Specification
define the requirements for a record of
authority by a PII Principal to a PII
Controller for processing of the
Principal’s PII.
The UMA specification
gives individuals a unified
control point for authorising
who & what can access
their digital assets at their
desired grain.
Gluu
Customer Commons/Kantara
Intent Casting UX and
Human Readable terms
more..
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12. The Kantara Educational Foundation, Inc

15. Nurture. Develop. Operate.
– that’s what we do!
colin@kantarainitiative.eu
Twitter: @KantaraColin @KantaraNews
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