During the last European Identity and Cloud Conference in Munich on 11 May 2016, Kantara unveiled an industry-wide drive to create a non-profit, open professional association to represent and certify digital identity professionals. Since then, more than 380 individuals have signed the 'pledge' to support the initiative.
During the past few months, a Kantara Discussion Group has actively developing various aspects of the association in several project streams. One of these project streams is developing a 'Body of Knowledge' which will contain concepts and information that an ID Pro is expected to master, in their specific deployment circumstances.
The Body of Knowledge is structured around a taxonomy - an organizational scaffolding used to categorize information - that uses a regular structure within the different information domains to promote consistency. It is a 'living document' and as such, is designed to be extendable to accommodate future authors’ needs and priorities. The taxonomy should allow the project stream participants and future contributors party to fill in portions of the body of knowledge piece by piece, without having to create a linear narrative.
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