Kantara Initiative

Kantara Initiative

Type	Professional Organization
Founded	April 20, 2010
Location	Delaware, US
Origins	Merger of the Liberty Alliance, the Project Concordia and others
Area served	Worldwide
Focus	Digital Identity Management
Method	Recommendations, Conferences, Publications
Employees	3
Website	kantarainitiative.org

Kantara is a non-profit professional association dedicated to advancing technical and legal innovation related to digital identity management. It has members and participants in 11 countries

Kantara is a joint initiative originally founded by: Liberty Alliance, [DataPortability] Project, the Concordia Project, the Internet Society, the [Information Card Foundation], OpenLiberty.org and XDI.org, which are all members of Kantara.

It is formed as a program of IEEE-ISTO (www.ieee-isto.org) and as such is incorporated in Delaware, USA as a 501c6 organization. Its is structured in a bicameral governance model

Kantara is not a standards body but submits recommendations to standards bodies such as OASIS, IETF, ISO, ITU-T and other standard-developing organizations.

IPR policies

IPR Policies which Work Groups and Discussion Groups may choose upon formation.

• Option Apache 2.0
• Option Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
• Option Patent and Copyright (RAND)

References

Published recommendations

• Federation Operator Guidelines (FOG)
• Identity Assurance Framework

Published reports

• Deployment Guide for Proxying Assurance between OpenID and SAML
• Consumer Identity Interim Report
• SAML2 eGovernment Implementation Profile 2.0
• Identity Assurance US Federal Privacy Profile
• Information Sharing Report
• Personal Request For Proposal (pRFP) Engagement Model Report

Certification programs

• Interoperability (OpenID, SAML, WS-Trust, ..)
• Identity Assurance