RE: [Muscle] US Real ID Act - Based on FIPS-201?

Wed, 11 May 2005 18:14:03 -0700

The legislation is a mandate, not a program. It’s just a power play, between the Federal govt and the states, forcing standards. Its sets a stake in the ground, to force some cohesion on the general direction, rather that define what things will actually be.

 

Its just the assertive way open politics is played, in the US way of initiating consensus on big social issues.

 

As an analyst, you can see the ducks being placed in a row, however: federal monies for design/build/deploy programs, contactless  chip designs, semi-secret trials, trial applications in the surveillance infrastructures, and now FIPS and mandates. But, Federal initiatives don’t always work as setup – the defense groups that have proved the viability of the quackery often lack the broadness of vision and the perpective of the innovative little guys to make an more widely adoptable technology – despite the excellence of the design and program management processes they have actually used. Wait 3-5 years, and spinoffs of the defense-based technology initiatives find a home, and fit nicely into the program initiatives the defense process managed to get underway (if not actually satisfy.) Again, its just the way things happen, in the US economy.

 

You have to give the US credit, on all this. Can you find coherent documents from the UK government, open communities and contractor-based funding initiatives, with open source code (like muscle/CAC), and a case study of 3 million soldiers, and a 15 year old key management program scalable to society at large, with a solid management framework based on the Defense Messaging System learning curve? I can’t. If you a member of the in-class, perhaps you can! but interested parties in general cannot participate.

 

Peter.

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anders Rundgren
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 2:42 PM
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Subject: [Muscle] US Real ID Act - Based on FIPS-201?

 

 

Will Real ID be based on FIPS-201 (or similar), or is the US government about the only government in the world to exclude logical access in their ID-cards?

Anders

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