Kantara Initiative

Kantara Initiative Inc. is the global ‘commons’ not-for-profit consortium unique in having both digital identity and privacy in its scope and delivered through innovation, standardization and good practice. Attracting innovative organizations, governments, and individuals to its open collaborative ethos, Kantara operates Trust Frameworks such as its flagship NIST 800-63-3 Class of Approval, to assess and assure digital identity and privacy solution service providers. It is also home for two open specifications selected in the top 5 trends for 2018 – UMA, the OAuth extension enabling respecting user-controlled delegation, and the Consent Receipt.