See p21 onwards, in http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/pressAndInformationOffice/PDF/IDreport.pdf
The report is unfortunately very biased (against), but a well written summary of the issues before the political class OF THE LAST 5 YEARS. The debate is changing though, in ways that are not reflected. It doesn't reflect how the initiative has reacted to some of the technology roadblocks encountered. If you see how the US reacted to failure of its mandatory key escrow lobbying for Internet computers, turning around that defeat to have have achieved 80% of the same ends with 20% of the fuss, you can see how certain winning adoption strategies pay off. The US position is much more politically tenable and achievable, and based on known strategies from the covert surveillance world, that work, provide the requisite assurance, and don't cause a political fracas (...and are really easy to transfer costs to social causes, in general). Don't bother with a frontal attack on registering everyone iris every 5 years, carting off the dissenting uberliberals and uberguncontrolists to Federal detention centers, etc. Better to achieve the goals by reapplication of deception, infrastructure subversion and proxy: well honed techniques from the US national security space. Proxy existing sensor networks in existing civilian infrastructure, particularly in areas where there is mandatory compulsory registration and tracking, already. E.g. cars, tires, mobile phones, bus/train tickets, currency, CDROM lasers, etc. - anything that reflects daily life. Remember, 80% of inaccurate data is often as useful as 20% of accurate data, when searching for the needle in the haystack. UK attempts to subvert the entitlement system, train tickets, car plate registration, etc as proxy registration and sensor networks, etc are the right idea. But it needs to be at lower layer. Still far too politically upfront, and thus doomed to fail - against adoption metrics. The trick is to go for 80% coverages, from multiple sources, from transparent infrastructure controlled by the large corporations. Its funny, UK folks got all upset about govt tracking of your library cards. But noone gave a damn about subverting the visa realtime fraud detection system as a personal locator service! > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:muscle- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Paljak > Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 1:28 AM > To: MUSCLE > Subject: Re: [Muscle] NIST Services > > On 4/16/05, Scott Guthery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3) Aren't European card progams always "yet to be launched" :-) > > What do you refer to by 'European card programs' ? > > > > -- > Martin Paljak > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://martin.paljak.pri.ee/ > +372.5156495 - phone > > _______________________________________________ > Muscle mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [email protected] http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
