Kantara Initiative
Encyclopedia
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.
Identity management
Identity management is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling access to the resources in that system by placing restrictions on the established identities of the individuals.Identity management is multidisciplinary and covers many...
. It has members and participants in 11 countries
Kantara is a joint initiative originally founded by: Liberty Alliance
Liberty Alliance
The Liberty Alliance was formed in September 2001 by approximately 30 organizations to establish open standards, guidelines and best practices for identity management...
, [DataPortability] Project, the Concordia Project, the Internet Society
Internet Society
The Internet Society or ISOC is an international, nonprofit organization founded during 1992 to provide direction in Internet related standards, education, and policy...
, 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
Standards organization
A standards organization, standards body, standards developing organization , or standards setting organization is any organization whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting, or otherwise producing technical standards that are...
but submits recommendations to standards bodies such as OASIS, IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force
The Internet Engineering Task Force develops and promotes Internet standards, cooperating closely with the W3C and ISO/IEC standards bodies and dealing in particular with standards of the TCP/IP and Internet protocol suite...
, ISO, ITU-T
ITU-T
The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector is one of the three sectors of the International Telecommunication Union ; it coordinates standards for telecommunications....
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)
Published recommendations
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