January through March 2009
In the third quarter of FY '09, the MIT Kerberos Consortium continued to make progress towards its goals. In January, it released Kerberos 1.7a, a new version of MIT Kerberos which incorporates an independent implementation of the Microsoft protocol extensions, as well as other desirable features and functionality. It publicly released a significant new working paper entitled "Towards Kerberizing Web and Identity Services". This paper was the result of a collaboration between the Consortium, its sponsors and a variety of other experts on security and identity management. It held the fourth Executive Advisory Board meeting of the Kerberos Consortium at Microsoft in late March. It held its first Interoperability Plug-athon, hosted by Microsoft, with 14 attendees from six different organizations.
It has initiated a new collaboration with Red Hat, Ubuntu and Sun, to create a bundle of open source components whose combined functionality approximates that of a Microsoft Active Directory server. In the fourth quarter of FY '09 it will make progress toward this goal through the development of requirements and specifications with these external parties.
Fundraising in the current economic climate remains challenging. However, a recent reduction in sponsorship fees has generated renewed interest in joining the Consortium. The Consortium maintains sufficient financial reserves to withstand the economic downturn.
October through December 2008
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