>Again, you need to revisit your model. Infrastructure will be funded out of >several pots, smart media out of several pots. The important infrastructure >is that paid for by the public sector - immigration, police, social >security, etc. Here in the UK we intend to charge UKP 30 for the cards >(builds up to about UKP 50 if the ID chip is embedded in the passport).
In Sweden an "e-ID" (which is considered as another thing than physical IDs), costs nothing for the citizen as it is prepaid and is not a "card". Issuance is performed on-line from the citizens on-line bank which is a 2-5 minute procedure. A huge difference between a passport and an eIDs is that the former (as far as I can see), does not really need a PIN-code or a private key as it is supposed to be used in a situation where the person (=biometrics) and the ID-information is "matched" using automatic or visual means. It seems that there are some lose ends here. It is similar to the thing the banks are trying to pull off: A "combo" of eID and a VISA card. I believe an "account" and a "person" are two different entities with entirely different use-cases. But we'll see what happens. Anders _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.musclecard.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
