On Tuesday 12 September 2006 12:49 pm, jtd wrote: > On Monday 11 September 2006 10:55 pm, Dinesh Shah wrote: > > Hi Devdas, > > > > On 9/11/06, Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 1. Non-issue of ID. > > > > 2. Duplicate/Multiple IDs. > > > > 3. Wrong ID. > > > > > > You aren't thinking maliciously enough. > > > > Please, please, pleaaaaaaaaaase play devil's advocate. :-) > > Please think maliciously on my behalf. This will lead us to make > > this system more robust. > > Who are the issuers? > where is the database residing? > Who decides what is accessible and what isnt? > What has caste, religion got to do with identity? > Who has access to the audit trail?
Earlier attempts by all and sundry implementing id 1) Ration card - issuers were so corrupt, malicious, and incompetent that u could do whatever u please with the system - but ONLY thru a tout 2) Passport - an upmarket version of the above 3) Voter id card - the contractors were an ecelectic mix of the above 4) PAN GIR number 5) Domicile certificates 6) Caste certificates The above issues are essentially administrative, but the proposed system must mandatorily have built in checks and audit trails which are publicly viewable - not by filing forms under thr RTI, but by just visiting a website. Without which it would be yet another drain on everybody's time and money. Fortunately none of the above are mandatory, which the present scheme proposes to do away with. The best part is no two government agencies accept the above as sufficient proof of id, creating their own little id cess pools. Imo 1) publicly viewable audit trails 2) universal acceptance by ALL government and private agencies as the final and only essential proof of id 3) Ability to generate id at birth ie from primary health center This will require the id to be DNA - other charcteristics are temporary and so riddled with holes it is pointless discussing - of primary member and parent (s). However big problem when one or both parents happen to be unknown / donors and when gene therapy might substantially modify the original dna. More later. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
