On Dec 22, 2004, at 8:53, R.A. Hettinga wrote:

Do we need a national ID card?

The comment period on NIST's draft FIPS-201 (written in very hasty response to Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-12) ends tomorrow. The draft, as written, enables use of the card by "Smart IEDs" and for improved selection of kidnapping victims. One cabinet department's Associate CIO for Cybersecurity said of this project, "Eventually this is going to lead to a national ID card." Refs: http://csrc.nist.gov/piv-project/ http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/hspd-12.html http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/draft-FIPS_201-110804- public1.pdf