Hello Siddhesh, On 8/29/06, Siddhesh Poyarekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So you're treating this as a birth registration. So instead of thinking up a whole new system we can implement this as an improvement of the current birth registration system. This way we have much of the design in place and we will then need to tweak some things to suite us better. We could even call this as computerization of the current birth registration system.
Your interpretation of the CIS is very simplistic. At this stage I am just proposing to collect the personal information which is simple to gather, it's unique (every one has just one biological mother right?) (on the second thought, what is the status of test tube babes and surrogate mothers?) and inherently secure. (Like who would like to keep his/her mother's name secret?). Someone raised the public disclose of birthday stating that birthday/date is used for various verifications. But this is due to an assumption that birthday/date is a Private info. However, this info is already in public (you sure have friends with whom you share your birthday/date? :-) ). People give their birthday/date info on-line at many places. It is not really difficult to get some one's birthday/date. To gather other unique info like digital photo, finger print, retina/iris pattern, DNA will be very expensive. However, they can be collected as and when required.
True, but we do need something that requires minimal user intervention to protect them from temselves in many ways. And the FOSS way is definitely THE best way for such an effort because I guess there are going to be many "BIG BROTHER" concerns over this.
I agree. How about every individual carrying a simple plastic card with basic info printed in human and machine readable format like either bar code or RFID? This card will be very easy to manufacture and replace. The card can be manufactured in such a way to make it very difficult to make duplicates/fakes.
Regards, Siddhesh PS: Thanks Rony for bringing this topic up in the first place. Sadly, his thread went completely out of context through no fault of his. Awaiting inputs from you too Rony.
Yes of course, this was originally Rony's idea. Now let us develop it in FOSS model so as to make it usable in practice. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
