The Kantara Initiative: Shaping the Future of Digital Identity
Mots-clés : Identité numérique, privacy Mission: Foster identity community harmonization, interoperability, innovation, and broad adoption through the development of open identity specifications, operational frameworks, education programs, deployment and usage best practices for privacy-respecting, secure access to online services Vision: Ensure secure, identity-based, online interactions while preventing misuse of personal information so that networks will become privacy protecting and more natively trustworthy environments. * Accelerate marketplace adoption through clear messages, defined processes, and open community collaboration that brings vendors, deployers, individuals, and organizations together * Bring together technical, business, legal, and policy experience to achieve holistic & trusted identity management solutions * Establish an open and democratic governance model with no financial barrier to participation * Implement an operational structure with nimble processes, procedures, and oversight, and a viable financial model * Commit to open standards and encourage interoperable implementations from both the COTS product and open source development communities * Foster positive dialogue across all relevant organizations to assure coordination, harmonization, and re-use of all applicable open content (specs, policy, etc.) * Establish programs with strong branding for technical and operational output to promote interoperability, compliance and/or conformance
Kantara (kan-TAR-a): Swahili for "bridge"; Arabic roots in "harmony"
The Kantara Initiative: Bridging and harmonizing the identity community with actions that will help ensure secure, identity-based, online interactions while preventing misuse of personal information so that networks will become privacy protecting and more natively trustworthy environments.
>> the kantara initiative launch overview june2009
>> the kantara initiative overview 4-09-09
