# Identity Architect and Standards Contributor

Source: https://startwithidentity.com/experts/eve-maler/
Last updated: 2026-08-29
License: content by Start with Identity. Cite the source URL.

---

## Bio

Eve Maler has shaped identity standards for over two decades. Best known in the identity world as author of the User-Managed Access (UMA) specifications, which extend OAuth to support consent and delegation patterns. Earlier in her career she was one of the original co-inventors of XML at Sun Microsystems.

Profile built from public Kantara Initiative and W3C records.

## Where their work shows up

User-Managed Access extends [OAuth](https://startwithidentity.com/standards/oauth-2-0/) to consent and delegation patterns where the resource owner is not present at the moment of access, which is exactly the shape the [issuer, holder, verifier](https://startwithidentity.com/glossary/issuer-holder-verifier/) model and [consent management](https://startwithidentity.com/glossary/consent-management/) requirements later needed. Her earlier XML work sits under [SAML 2.0](https://startwithidentity.com/standards/saml-2-0/).