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Founded | 2009 |
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Type | Information Technology and Services – Industry consortium and professional trade organization |
Focus | Trust framework conformity assessment, assurance and Trust Mark operations for digital identity management and personal data privacy |
Origins | Founded by private sector identity management industry vendors, later joined by government agencies and individual subject matter experts |
Method | Programs, Recommendations, Conferences, Publications |
Key people | Kay Chopard (Executive Director) Lynzie Adams (Executive Programs Manager) Andrew Hughes (Chair of the Leadership Council) |
Website |
kantarainitiative |
Kantara Initiative, Inc. is a non-profit trade association that works to develop standards for identity and personal data management. It focuses on improving the trustworthy use of identity and personal data in digital identity management and data privacy.
Kantara translates to “wooden bridge” in Kiswahili, which is the inspiration for the bridge of Kantara’s logo. The name is attributed[ by whom?] to Nat Sakimura, a Kantara founding board director and Open ID Foundation chair, who spent his childhood in Africa.
Kantara drafts technical specifications and recommendations for industry use and submits them to standards development organizations, such as Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C), [1] Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) [2] and SC27 (Security Techniques) Working Group 5 (Identity Management and Privacy) of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
Kantara provides input to policy bodies such as OECD as well as some inter-government initiatives related to identity management and personal data agency.
Of completed projects, the following are noteworthy:
The initiative was established in 2009 by a group of identity management (IDM) technical interoperability organizations using a bi-cameral system of governance. [15] Responding to industry consortia fragmentation, Kantara aimed to form a unified, transparent and inclusive member organization for digital identity community stakeholders.
In 2011, Kantara focused on serving the needs of relying parties. Kantara did so by developing assessment, assurance, and trust marks for federated trust frameworks, as well as developing urgently needed specifications quicker than the lengthy processes undertaken by Standards Development Organizations (SDOs). Private and public sector relying party organizations (initially from the United States, but globally as of 2024) joined the initiative to develop identity and credential requirements and operate conformance and assurance programs, thus complementing the missions and outputs of other industry consortia, such as PDEC (Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium), Customer Commons the CARIN Alliance, [16] Identity Commons, [17] FIDO Alliance and IDESG (assets transitioned to Kantara Educational Foundation in June 2018 [18]).
Formerly an affiliate program under IEEE-ISTO, Kantara Initiative self-incorporated as a 501(c)6 nonprofit organization in January 2016. [19] In 2018, two financially separate but similarly missioned and branded organizations were established—Mittetulundusuhing Kantara Initiative Europe, an Estonian based Trade Association, and Kantara Initiative Educational Foundation Inc, a US incorporated 501(c)3 in the US.[ citation needed]
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Founded | 2009 |
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Type | Information Technology and Services – Industry consortium and professional trade organization |
Focus | Trust framework conformity assessment, assurance and Trust Mark operations for digital identity management and personal data privacy |
Origins | Founded by private sector identity management industry vendors, later joined by government agencies and individual subject matter experts |
Method | Programs, Recommendations, Conferences, Publications |
Key people | Kay Chopard (Executive Director) Lynzie Adams (Executive Programs Manager) Andrew Hughes (Chair of the Leadership Council) |
Website |
kantarainitiative |
Kantara Initiative, Inc. is a non-profit trade association that works to develop standards for identity and personal data management. It focuses on improving the trustworthy use of identity and personal data in digital identity management and data privacy.
Kantara translates to “wooden bridge” in Kiswahili, which is the inspiration for the bridge of Kantara’s logo. The name is attributed[ by whom?] to Nat Sakimura, a Kantara founding board director and Open ID Foundation chair, who spent his childhood in Africa.
Kantara drafts technical specifications and recommendations for industry use and submits them to standards development organizations, such as Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C), [1] Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) [2] and SC27 (Security Techniques) Working Group 5 (Identity Management and Privacy) of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
Kantara provides input to policy bodies such as OECD as well as some inter-government initiatives related to identity management and personal data agency.
Of completed projects, the following are noteworthy:
The initiative was established in 2009 by a group of identity management (IDM) technical interoperability organizations using a bi-cameral system of governance. [15] Responding to industry consortia fragmentation, Kantara aimed to form a unified, transparent and inclusive member organization for digital identity community stakeholders.
In 2011, Kantara focused on serving the needs of relying parties. Kantara did so by developing assessment, assurance, and trust marks for federated trust frameworks, as well as developing urgently needed specifications quicker than the lengthy processes undertaken by Standards Development Organizations (SDOs). Private and public sector relying party organizations (initially from the United States, but globally as of 2024) joined the initiative to develop identity and credential requirements and operate conformance and assurance programs, thus complementing the missions and outputs of other industry consortia, such as PDEC (Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium), Customer Commons the CARIN Alliance, [16] Identity Commons, [17] FIDO Alliance and IDESG (assets transitioned to Kantara Educational Foundation in June 2018 [18]).
Formerly an affiliate program under IEEE-ISTO, Kantara Initiative self-incorporated as a 501(c)6 nonprofit organization in January 2016. [19] In 2018, two financially separate but similarly missioned and branded organizations were established—Mittetulundusuhing Kantara Initiative Europe, an Estonian based Trade Association, and Kantara Initiative Educational Foundation Inc, a US incorporated 501(c)3 in the US.[ citation needed]
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