| 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 [1] |
| 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[2]
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[3] (www.ieee-isto.org) and as such is incorporated in Delaware, USA as a 501c6 organization. Its is structured in a bicameral governance model[4]
Kantara is not a standards body but submits recommendations to standards bodies such as OASIS, IETF, ISO, ITU-T and other standard-developing organizations.
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