The IDESG or Identity Ecosystem Steering Group recently filed paperwork with the Commonwealth of Virginia to incorporate the IDESG as a nonprofit corporation. The IDESG was basically spun out of NIST or the National Institute of Science and Technology to “administer the development of policy, standards, and accreditation processes for the Identity Ecosystem Framework.”
In April 2011, President Obama signed (PDF) the NSTIC or the National Strategy For Trusted Identities In Cyberspace...
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/8132/obama-initiative-spawns-identity-based-bitcoin-greenlist/Youtube's MorningBit reacts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHLXMxP40F8
