Kantara Initiative

Conference IIW8 Room/Time: 7/G

Convener: Brett McDowell

Notes-taker: Kaliya Hamlin

Attendees:

• Judith Bush OCLC
• Lucy Lynch ISOC
• Siddleath B. Verisign
• Bill Smith SUN
• Daniela Barosa DataPortability Project - DowJones
• Mark Lizar MyDex VIP-sig
• Dave Crocker Brandenburg
• Kaliya Hamlin - Identity Commons
• Bill Washburn - XDI.org/OpenID

Technology Discussed/Considered: Kantara, Industry Consortia

Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps:

Brett explains what Kantara Initiative he mostly wanted to be here to answer the question

• New Organization - formed by some in the ID Space - DPP, XDI.org, Liberty Alliance, Information Card Foundation
• wanted a governance structure that integrated intellectual property governance
• clear way to participate and have votes
• for work that is deemed important

Membership - website with proposed charters

• Two kinds of groups working groups, discussion groups (discussion groups likely precursor to working groups)

Trustees have fiduciary responsibility

• Leadership council
• Membership structure

People joining agree to intellectual property agreement of work. The membership funds things and has a final ballot on recommendations.

• Requires specs to got to standards bodies.
• The initiative is open and inclusive - not vendor driven.

• SAML -> enterprise
• OpenID -> social web

Groups....

• ID Assurance
• Telecommunications
• VPI - Policy
• VPI - Technology
• Wakame "hello"
• ID-WSF & Open Liberty
• Privacy and Public Policy
• Concordia x-protocol usecases
• Multi-protocol ID selector
• eGov
• Healthcare
• WAF
• IDWSF -> OAuth

Branding Beyond ->Technology

• Response to call for participation
• anything like this has to prove itself

Bill - what would constitute critical mass

• Solve cross protocol issues - "do so in an organized manner"
• for a large number of entities that want to participate in
• can go on list as individuals

If SUN is a member then SUN's IP is committed

Iain - qualitative and quantitative research properly done

Vendor Driven?

• as a vendor I don't want a place without deployers loose interested not their business

Kaliya - expressed concern re funding model with the potential for large fights about budget allocation

It is a place for pre and post standards work not just vendor centric end user can come and participate without paying money "get all of the protocols more useful"

Non-technical buckets related to community building

• Privacy
• Assurance - ID Assurance Framework
• Liability - American Bar Association, Collaboration
• Usability - no proposed projects - yet
  • Security elements
  • Privacy Policy Icon Work (easy to use/control spectrum or matrix) user options beyond yes/no.