Kantara Initiative Explained

Kantara Initiative
Type:Information Technology and Services – Industry consortium and professional trade organization
Founded Date:2009
Origins:Founded by private sector identity management industry vendors, later joined by government agencies and individual subject matter experts
Key People:Kay Chopard

Lynzie Adams

Andrew Hughes
Focus:Trust framework conformity assessment, assurance and Trust Mark operations for digital identity management and personal data privacy
Method:Programs, Recommendations, Conferences, Publications

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 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.

Projects

Of completed projects, the following are noteworthy:

History

The initiative was established in 2009 by a group of identity management (IDM) technical interoperability organizations using a bi-cameral system of governance.[14] 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,[15] Identity Commons,[16] FIDO Alliance and IDESG (assets transitioned to Kantara Educational Foundation in June 2018[17]).

Formerly an affiliate program under IEEE-ISTO, Kantara Initiative self-incorporated as a 501(c)6 nonprofit organization in January 2016.[18] In 2018, two financially separate but similarly missioned and branded organizations were establishedMittetulundusuhing Kantara Initiative Europe, an Estonian based Trade Association, and Kantara Initiative Educational Foundation Inc, a US incorporated 501(c)3 in the US.

References

  1. Web site: Position Statement from Kantara to the W3C regarding Privacy Data Controls. Lizar. Mark.
  2. User-Managed Access (UMA) 2.0 Grant for OAuth 2.0 Authorization. Maler. Eve. Machulak. Maciej. tools.ietf.org. en. 2019-08-14. Hardjono. Thomas. Richer. Justin. 13 February 2019.
  3. Web site: 2018-08-17 . ID.me Strengthens Digital Identities for Government and Healthcare . 2019-08-14 . KMWorld . en-US.
  4. Web site: Kantara Initiative approves Experian's CrossCore platform for conformance with NIST 800-63-3 IAL2. Experian. www.prnewswire.com. en. 2019-08-14.
  5. Michele. Nati. September 2016. Researching the transparency of PD sharing.
  6. Web site: Kantara Initiative Releases Consent Receipt Form for GDPR SecurityWeek.Com . 2019-08-14 . SecurityWeek.
  7. Web site: 2018-02-13 . Kantara Initiative Releases User-Managed Access Version 2.0 Specifications . 2019-08-14 . Business Wire . en.
  8. Web site: A Quick Guide To User-Managed Access 2.0. wso2.com. en. 2019-08-14.
  9. Web site: Identity experts forming non-profit professional organization. Fontana. John. ZDNet. en. 2019-08-14.
  10. Web site: IDPro, the First-Ever Digital Identity Professionals Organization, Launches with Over 400 Pledged Members. 2017-06-28. www.businesswire.com. en. 2019-08-14.
  11. Web site: Principles – Kantara Initiative. kantarainitiative.org. en-US. 2018-11-05.
  12. Web site: Episode 163: Kantara Initiative receives grants to develop smartphone solutions for digital ID. SecureIDNews. en-US. 2019-08-14.
  13. Web site: Incubator Program Yields BLE and NFC Credentialing - 2018-12-07 - Page 1. https://web.archive.org/web/20181207190224/https://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?18077. dead. December 7, 2018. www.rfidjournal.com. 7 December 2018 . 2019-08-14.
  14. Web site: The Kantara Initiative–– A New Organization for Identity Management Technology NTT Technical Review. www.ntt-review.jp. 2019-08-14.
  15. Web site: Kantara Initiative And The CARIN Alliance Sign Affiliated Alliance Agreement . 2019-08-14 . Yahoo! Finance . en-US.
  16. Web site: ID Related Standards - IdCommons. wiki.idcommons.org. 2019-08-14.
  17. Web site: IDESG absorbed into Kantara Initiative. SecureIDNews. en-US. 2019-08-14.
  18. Web site: Team . Kantara Initiative . 2016-04-05 . Kantara Initiative Establishes New Status as Autonomous Corporation . 2023-10-11 . Kantara Initiative: Trust through ID Assurance . en-US.

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