Scott Guthery wrote:
Is it legal to prevent a consumer from having a phone that they purchased activated on a carrier's network? I go back to the days when it was "illegal" to plug in a non-MaBell phone into your POTS
jack at home.
Some things are different in Europe: as far as I am aware, every network
has to accept every type of phone. But when I was in Washington DC in
April I noticed some incompatibilities when using my UK phone on
local networks (calls did not connect on one network), and others told me the same.
Getting back to authentication, we in the UK have several govt projects
2) Same is true for cards. Buy your own card and become the issuer.
Sure, great advice, but not practical in the real world, Scott and for good or bad, my products live in the "real world" space of having
to operate with cards that have been already deployed.
proposing (developing?) national rollout of cards in the hands of citizens (and of course we are following the USA requirement for e-passports). The USA scene appears to be holding back from such pojects: the recent presidential decree covers only federal employees and contractors and their staff. Do govt want mass deployment of compatible infrastructure - in home and office? Or do they want the cards to be used as smart cards only in terminals run by public sector organisations and in businesses that need to verify information about the citizen (e.g. banks, lawyers, car hire offices), with everyone else using them as flash cards? The European Commission policy is clearly for e-govt services to be universally available, which must include home and office. There will not be mass deployment of compatible infrastructure unless it can be kept simple.
Once we get mass deployment of infrastructure, the way will be open for concepts like eURI to be deployed: backed by a CEN/ISSS CWA (in effect a pre-standard) it will have to be accepted on public sector issued multi-app cards.
I remain sceptical about the 'be your own issuer' concept. Not against it - I just think very few people will be able to handle the technology. eURI of course is designed to allow it (as those who read it will see, I was there).
Peter
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