A National ID: AAMVA's Unique ID

[Bill Stewart]

At 10:31 AM 6/17/2004, John Gilmore wrote:
>Our favorite civil servants, the Departments of Motor Vehicles, are about
>to do exactly this to us.

Many states have sunshine laws that affect meetings their
policymakers attend, at least if they attend them in official capacity.
Could this be used here?

>Robyn Wagner and I have tried to join AAMVA numerous times, as
>"freetotravel.org".  We think that we have something to say about the
>imposition of Unique ID on an unsuspecting public.  They have rejected
>our application every time -- does this remind you of the Hollywood
>copy-prevention "standards committees"?  Here is their recent
>rejection letter:
>...
>At the same time, they let in a bunch of vendors of "high security" ID
>cards as associate members.

Perhaps the "Independent Smartcard Developer Association"
that Lucky ran for a while would be a useful front?