In our continuing series on identification standards, Joni Brennan, managing director at Kantara Initiative, fills Regarding ID listeners in on the organization’s interoperability certification and identity assurance programs. Kantara is trying to bring some unity to the various identification standards efforts underway across the globe.

In the third part of the Regarding ID series of podcasts looking at identity standards Editor Zack Martin speaks with J. Trent Adams, chair of the Kantara Initiative Leadership Council. In his day job Adams is Outreach Specialist for the Internet Society working on Trust & Identity Initiative.

Government issued ID cards aren’t what they use to be. In the last 10-years the documents have changed from simple piece of laminated plastic to high-tech IDs with multiple security features. Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin spoke with Robert DeVincenzi, president and CEO at LaserCard, about the company’s role in changing IDs and a Frost & Sullivan report that analyzes some of the progress.

In another of a series of podcasts investigating identity standards, Kevin Gillick, executive director at GlobalPlatform, talks with Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin about its place in the standards landscape and the role it plays.