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<p style='vertical-align:top'>Representatives from Internet Society and
Oracle elected to leadership positions as growing membership base works to
bridge identity technologies, initiatives and organizations<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='vertical-align:top'>WASHINGTON, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 45
organizations from the global identity and Internet communities today
announced the launch of Kantara Initiative, a new organization formed to
solve the harmonization and interoperability challenges that currently exist
among identity-enabled enterprise, Web 2.0 and Web-based applications and
services. Kantara Initiative has been founded to collaboratively foster the
innovation required for broad adoption of interoperable identity-enabled
solutions across industries, regions and fixed and mobile networks. As of
today's launch, nearly 20 initial work and discussion groups have been
proposed by the growing Kantara Initiative community. Kantara Initiative will
hold a public webcast to overview the new organization on Wednesday, June, 24
at 8:00am US PT (3:00pm UTC). <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='vertical-align:top'>The launch of Kantara Initiative comes after a
year of strategic planning involving stakeholders representing the entire
identity ecosystem. This planning focused on how to best move the industry
forward as the enterprise identity landscape continues to evolve and use of
social networking and Web 2.0 applications rapidly proliferates, with growing
interaction between these three markets driving new use cases and identity
requirements. With zero barriers to participation and founding principles
based on transparency, inclusion, empowerment, innovation, collaboration and
openness, members of the community are leveraging the successes and
experiences of each other to drive holistic, interoperable and trusted
identity solutions into the global marketplace. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='vertical-align:top'>"The identity product and service market
grows more complex every month, and as the market gets more moving parts,
there are more and more requirements for all those parts to work together.
The parts aren't going to work together unless the part makers work together
-- and that's why today's announcement is important," said Bob Blakley,
principal analyst, The Burton Group. "The Kantara Initiative is helping
to bridge identity initiatives and organizations, which can help set the
stage for better collaboration in the global identity sector."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='vertical-align:top'><b>Board of Trustees and Leadership Council -
Fostering Innovation and Collaboration Based on a Bicameral Governance Model</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='vertical-align:top'>The Kantara Initiative has been established
based on a bicameral governance model where the Board of Trustees and
Leadership Council work hand-in-hand as peers in steering the direction of the
organization. The bicameral model ensures that all members and participants
can have a voice within Kantara Initiative. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='vertical-align:top'>With today's news, Roger Sullivan, vice
president Oracle Identity Management, has been elected president of the 2009
Kantara Initiative Board of Trustees and J. Trent Adams, outreach specialist,
trust & identity, Internet Society, has been elected chair of the
Leadership Council. Initial Board of Trustee members include AOL, BT, CA,
Intel, Internet Society, Fidelity Investments, Novell, NRI, NTT, Oracle,
PayPal and Sun Microsystems. Representatives from Intel and the New Zealand
government have Leadership Council seats on the Board of Trustees.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='vertical-align:top'>According to Sullivan, "The problems the
global identity industry faces today are not just about technology, but
rather a combination of business policy and privacy requirements, balanced
against interoperability, usability, as well as technology harmonization. All
of these issues need to be addressed for identity-enabled solutions to
succeed and for deployers to leverage their benefits. Kantara Initiative is
uniquely positioned to address these needs."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='vertical-align:top'><b>A Holistic View - Technology, Policy and
Proven Interoperability </b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='vertical-align:top'>The Kantara Initiative structure has been
designed to foster the development of new identity-related technology and
policy initiatives from initial proof-of-concept and incubation, to
go-to-market and long-term adoption strategies. Existing projects moving into
Kantara Initiative will benefit from additional community input which will include
identifying new use cases, support for adding functionality, and
opportunities for proving interoperability with other projects, initiatives
and technologies. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='vertical-align:top'>All output from Kantara Initiative will be
based on open standards with the goal of ensuring end user convenience,
security and privacy. A commitment to open standards means the Kantara
Initiative community will collaborate on projects that make use of all of the
identity frameworks, protocols and specifications in the marketplace today.
This means solutions could be built based on one or a combination of several
IAF, ID-WSF, IGF, Information Card, OAuth, OpenID SAML 2.0, WS-*, XACML and
XDI standards.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='vertical-align:top'><b>Focus Spanning Identity Initiatives - Nearly
20 Work and Discussion Groups in Progress Today</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='vertical-align:top'>The Kantara Initiative name, which is Swahili
for "bridge" and has Arabic roots in "harmony," was
announced at the April 2009 RSA Conference and since then members of the
identity community have proposed nearly 20 initial work and discussion
groups. All groups are open to every Kantara Initiative member as well as to
the public, and anyone can suggest a new group to the Leadership Council at
any time. Groups are formed by members and participants to address common
issues and problems related to specific industries. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='vertical-align:top'>Proposed groups, which are being approved on an
ongoing basis by the Leadership Council, include Concordia Use Cases,
eGovernment, Federated Identity Model Agreement & Commentary (FIMAC),
Health Identity and Assurance, Identity Assurance and Accreditation, Identity
Provider Selection, Identity Theft Prevention, ID-WSF Evolution (OAuth
Extensions), Japan, Multi-Protocol Identity Selector, Multi-Protocol Relying
Party Deployment, Privacy and Public Policy, Telecommunications Identity,
User Driven Information Technology and Volunteered Personal Information
(VPI). A list of all of the groups in progress is available at <u><a
href="http://kantarainitiative.org/wordpress/?page_id=6" target="_new">http://kantarainitiative.org/wordpress/?page_id=6</a></u>
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<p style='vertical-align:top'>"It's clear that Kantara Initiative brings
together the right mix of collaborators to help shepherd the next generation
of identity solutions. Specifically, our goal is to facilitate the development
of solutions that are interoperable, secure and privacy-respecting. And
importantly, the work is being done in an open and transparent fashion,"
said Adams. "Collaboration between identity communities and initiatives
within Kantara Initiative will lead to more trusted identity-enabled
applications and services. This fits squarely into the Internet Society
vision of an Internet Ecosystem where the continued development and adoption
of Internet technologies includes a broad range of participants with
dispersed ownership and control."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='vertical-align:top'><u>About Kantara Initiative</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='vertical-align:top'>Kantara Initiative has been formed by Concordia
Project, DataPortablity Project, Information Card Foundation, Internet
Society, Liberty Alliance, OpenLiberty.org and XDI.org. The Kantara Initiative
membership structure is unique in that it has been organized to ensure that
there are zero barriers to participation. Membership levels allow for maximum
industry-wide participation and include Participant, Member and Trustee
categories, which individuals and organizations join depending on the size of
the organization and type of desired participation. The Kantara Initiative
membership structure, levels, fees and governance model are outlined at <u><a
href="http://kantarainitiative.org/wordpress/?page_id=8" target="_new">http://kantarainitiative.org/wordpress/?page_id=8</a></u>
. A complete membership and chair list is available at <u><a
href="http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/GI/Current+Members"
target="_new">http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/GI/Current+Members</a></u>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='vertical-align:top'><u>About the June 24 Kantara Initiative Public
Webcast</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='vertical-align:top'>Hosted by Brett McDowell, executive director,
Kantara Initiative, Roger Sullivan and J.Trent Adams, the public webcast, <i>Kantara
Initiative, Shaping the Future of Digital Identity,</i> takes place on
Wednesday, June, 24 at 8:00am US PT. The one-hour event will provide
participants with an overview of Kantara Initiative including a review of
goals, structure and opportunities for all members of the global identity
community to participate in the organization. Registration and more
information is available at <u><a href="http://tinyurl.com/nsw3n5"
target="_new">http://tinyurl.com/nsw3n5</a></u><o:p></o:p></p>
<pre style='vertical-align:top'> Follow Kantara Initiative (#Kantara) on Twitter:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre
style='vertical-align:top'> <a href="http://twitter.com/KantaraNews"
target="_new">http://twitter.com/KantaraNews</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre
style='vertical-align:top'><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre style='vertical-align:
top'> Follow Kantara Initiative on YouTube:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre
style='vertical-align:top'> <a
href="http://www.youtube.com/user/KantaraInitiative" target="_new">http://www.youtube.com/user/KantaraInitiative</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre
style='vertical-align:top'><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre style='vertical-align:
top'> Follow Kantara Initiative on Flickr:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre
style='vertical-align:top'> <a
href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kantarainitiative/" target="_new">http://www.flickr.com/photos/kantarainitiative/</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre
style='vertical-align:top'><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre style='vertical-align:
top'> Follow Kantara Initiative on SlideShare:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre
style='vertical-align:top'> <a
href="http://www.slideshare.net/kantarainitiative" target="_new">http://www.slideshare.net/kantarainitiative</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre
style='vertical-align:top'><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre style='vertical-align:
top'> Follow the Kantara Initiative Blog:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre
style='vertical-align:top'> <a
href="http://kantarainitiative.org/wordpress/?page_id=29" target="_new">http://kantarainitiative.org/wordpress/?page_id=29</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre
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top'><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre style='vertical-align:top'> CONTACT:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre
style='vertical-align:top'><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre style='vertical-align:
top'> Russ DeVeau<o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='vertical-align:top'> Kantara Initiative<o:p></o:p></pre><pre
style='vertical-align:top'> www.kantarainitiative.org<o:p></o:p></pre><pre
style='vertical-align:top'> Mobile: 908-251-1549<o:p></o:p></pre><pre
style='vertical-align:top'> Office - 954-530-2850<o:p></o:p></pre><pre
style='vertical-align:top'> <a href="mailto:russd@projectliberty.org">russd@projectliberty.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre
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