Why on earth do you persist in asking for specifics about an
implementation that hasn't been authorized by, or even formally proposed
to, Congress?
Unless funds are appropriated to study implementing such a system, it
would be inappropriate for federal employees to spend working hours
analyzing the requirements for implementation, given past reluctance of
Congress to approve any National ID system. With no specifics on what
data would be included in such a system, or who would have access, or
what its intended use would be, it is simply impossible to hold any
rational discussion about implementation details.
Attempts to supply any implementation detail at this point for a
hypothetical system with unknown requirements would be worthless
speculation. In the remote event that such a proposal were passed by
Congress, implementation decisions ultimately depend on who the
Executive Branch places in charge.
If implementation decisions were to be made by someone with a legitimate
computer-science / computer-security expertise, one would expect a
choice of hardware, operating system, and application implementation
techniques appropriate to the sensitivity of the data, the volume of the
data, and the access requirements involved.
If decisions were made by a "FEMA qualified" Bush appointee whose sole
talent is ideological loyalty, then we shouldn't be surprised by an
implementation on a network of MS Windows platforms, infested by spy
ware and viruses, and with no regular backups or any provision for
recovery from hardware failures.
as400 wrote:
As a part of data storage, are the ID cards going to be processed from
a system running either a VAX cluster, MVS, z/OS, Solaris, AIX...etc??
Thanks
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Joel C. Ewing, Fort Smith, AR [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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