"bt" == jeff(???) <trestrab@GVSU.EDU> writes:
uni writes:
What might be really useful is a list of the different measures used on all the states ID's. [other states' info deleted]
bt> Michigan DLs have a Poloroid photo in the lower left corner and bt> are laminated in plastic embossed on the front with the state bt> seal. Just last week the Michigan Secretary of State, Richard H. Austin, proposed adding a magstripe to the driver's license. I don't recall hearing information on what data would be stored. Also in Michigan news, the University of Michigan is moving to a single University ID card (there are currently separate ones for housing, staff, etc.). In conjuction with this move, one's University ID number will no longer be one's Social Security number + check digit. For some bizarre reason, however, the soc number still appears on the back of the card--along with a magstripe using the ABA format. A proposal to encode one's digital photgraph was, I believe, not implemented--yet. Oh yeah, the card also has one's signature, but instead of one signing the card before laminating, one signs on a low-res graphics tablet and the digital image is affixed to the card--I don't remember if it appears in the magstripe too. I have the UM score as: + 5 for moving to a non soc-based id number + 1 for not including a digital photo in the magstripe -10 for continuing to print the soc number on the card -10 for continuing to use place a written signature on the card michael