This is a rough and ready page for adding anything of note you think might be useful.
Blog of the Governmant CIO:
http://johnsuffolk.typepad.com/john-suffolk---government-cio/
UK Government open source software community
http://ukgovoss.org/
The Open Cloud Consortium (OCC)
http://www.opencloudconsortium.org/index.html
Animation on federated access from JISC
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/themes/accessmanagement/federation/animation.aspx
Hueniverse "Thoughts on technology and open standards" - this link points to an article on OAuth:
http://www.hueniverse.com/hueniverse/2007/10/beginners-guide.html
Internet Identity Workshop (Where OAuth, OpenID, XRD, Discovery etc are launched and brainstormed). Two events a year usually in March and November.
http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/
Build Your Own SMS Authentication System:
http://www.e-things.org/go/?p=19
Quick video introduction to the Employee Authentication Scheme from the DCSF:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ5stVy-38I
Article from ReadWriteWeb on nascent use of OpenID by US gov
"US Government Reviewing OpenID For Login on .Gov Sites" -
Cracking presentation laying out the problem and the challenges from Dick Hardt
"Identity 2.0"
"Open trust frameworks provide a way for citizens to easily and safely engage with government websites: a key step in making open government a reality" from…
"OpenID Foundation and Information Card Foundation publish vision for open government through open identity technologies"
Chris Messina on the user interface difficulties in implementations of OpenID
"Does OpenID need to be hard?"
Follow-up post by Vibro on OpenID: "On the internet you don’t have a unique, incontrovertible identity. Rather, you have a relationship with many different entities…"
"One does not simply walk into Mordor, or Home Realm Discovery for the Internet"
Hillingdon Borough Council come up with an ID card for access to some services, leads to classic OTT El Reg headline, actual quote from No2ID starts - "This scheme looks fairly innocuous…"
"Pressure group aghast at Hillingdon ID card scheme"
TechCrunch extrapolate an ID system out of a bit of code released by Google.
"Google Points At WebFinger. Your Gmail Address Could Soon Be Your ID."
Excellent summation of the claims-based identity model from Muhammad Ahsan.
Claims-based Authentication / Claims-based identity model
SUN Java: Building Identity-Enabled Web Services
http://developers.sun.com/identity/reference/techart/id-enabled-ws.html
SUN Java: Metro and GlassFish Web Services Overview
http://java.sun.com/webservices/index.jsp
OASIS Members Approve Open Interoperability Standard for Information Cards
http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2009-07-16.php
Introducing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
http://aws.typepad.com/
Open Trust Frameworks for Open Government: Enabling Citizen Involvement through Open Identity Technologies
http://openid.net/docs/Open_Trust_Frameworks_for_Govts.pdf
The WSO2 SOA Platform
http://wso2.org/
Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) Open Cloud Standards Incubator
http://www.dmtf.org/about/cloud-incubator
Redhat Deltacloud - A cloud broker
http://www.deltacloud.org/
Cloud Standards Wiki
http://cloud-standards.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page#Open_Virtualization_Format_.28OVF.29
DMTF Open Cloud Standards Incubator - Distributed Management Task Force, Inc.
http://www.dmtf.org/about/cloud-incubator
Cloud server management
https://www.cloudkick.com/
A unified interface to the cloud
http://libcloud.org/
VMware Developer - vCloud API
http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/forums/vcloudapi
