Hi folks, On the topic of federated iIdM-related standards for clouds, you may be interested in reading and/or participating in the discussion going on at the US Federal government level within the NIST 'standards acceleration to jump-start the adoption of cloud computing" (SAJACC) effort: http://tinyurl.com/3ku7ah4 If you are interested in more information or in participating in this group, for which IdM is a small subset of their ongoing work, the URL to access their web page is: http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/bin/view/CloudComputing/SA... Thanks, Alan