On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Debayan Banerjee <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 2 February 2010 16:40, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 February 2010 15:44:47 Debayan Banerjee wrote: > >> http://uidai.gov.in/tenders/RFP_ASDMSA_Volume_II.pdf > > > > > > Fine document. With all the enrolment holes of existing id schemes. > > On the authentication side I wonder if they have tried fingerprinting > > after 8 hrs in rain / field / shrimp farm. > > Well they can wipe their hands before giving a fingerprint, right? > Get real. The only 'reliable' original fingerprints (from the PoV of primary authentication) are those taken in fairly ideal circumstances. Anything else is a filter, not an absolute identifier. > > > > Nice gymnastic leap of faith from the ground to algorithms. > > They might as well have not written this part at all. Would you have > respected them more then? > I do recall that the UID chairman has said somewhere that the objective of this exercise includes doing what has not been successful in other countries and initiatives. To my mind, this necessitates original research. Does this document indicate the mandate for such research and development? > > > > 57 pages that do not address the most basic issues associated with > > biometric ids let alone id ing 1 .2 billion. > > Well I did not read the entire 57 pages. I think its a document > specifically for developers. Once the development starts, people will > probably start looking at the document very frequently. > I, for one, am not entirely happy with a document that presupposes development taking place before research. That is a sure-fire prescription for pouring money down the drain. However, since I have not yet read the 57 pages either, I am willing to suspend my disbelief if the answer to my query above is positive. That does not mean that I think that UID is a good idea, or even the best of the bad ideas before us. -- Vickram http://communicall.wordpress.com
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