[Clips] The Real ID Act: MIT Online Forum Has Begun - Please Register if You Have Not Already Done So
R.A. Hettinga
rah at shipwright.com
Mon Sep 19 12:58:11 PDT 2005
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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:28:53 -0400
From: Daniel Greenwood <dang at media.mit.edu>
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Subject: The Real ID Act: MIT Online Forum Has Begun - Please Register if
You Have Not Already Done So
This note is to inform you that the online forum will officially convene
today at 3pm Eastern Time, September 19, 2005. The discussion
facilitators are all scheduled to post their initial statements by that
time. In the meantime, you are invited to join the emerging discussion at:
http://civics.typepad.com/realid/
Again, the main site for this initiative is http://ecitizen.mit.edu, and
you can register at this address
We encourage you to comment on as many topics associated with each
discussion track as interest you. Please also consider commenting on the
comments of others. The facilitator for each discussion track will, from
time to time, jump in the dialog to keep it moving, answer questions (if
appropriate) or throw out additional aspects of the topic for
consideration. We have chosen to use a commercial web log provider as
the host for this event, in part as a test of the tool as we evaluate a
platform for future online discussions. Please feel free to use the
built in blog features, such as tracking back to any blog entries you
may have and syndication. To participate in the discussion, simply click
the "comment" button associated with the topic you would like to join in
with.
The initial discussion tracks will be as follows:
Facilitated Discussion Track: The Interest in Homeland Security
This track is facilitated by Colleen Gilbert, Executive Director of the
Coalition for a Secure Driver License. This discussion track of the MIT
Real ID online forum is focused on the assertion that a secure driver
license is needed for reasons of national security, especially as an
anti-terrorism measure. In addition, the scope of this track includes
assertions that the Real ID Act can help combat common frauds and crimes
such as identity theft, by creating a more reliable state issued
identity system that is easily linked at the national level.
Facilitated Discussion Track: The Interest in Privacy and Civil Liberties
This track is facilitated by Lee Tien, Senior Staff Attorney for the
Electronic Frontier Foundation. This discussion track of the MIT Real ID
online forum is focused on the assertion that the Real ID Act of 2005
represents a National ID Card that will result in violation of the
privacy rights and other civil liberties of Americans and others who are
lawfully in the jurisdiction of the U.S. In addition, other
constitutional issues related to this exercise of federal authority in
an arena traditionally controlled by the states is in the scope of this
discussion.
Facilitated Discussion Track: Practical State Governmental and DMV Issues
This track is jointly facilitated by David Lewis, Former CIO,
Massachusetts and Chairman of American Association of Motor Vehicle
Administrators Committee that implemented the National Commercial Driver
License and by Barry Goleman. This discussion track of the MIT Real ID
online forum is focused on the assertion that the Real ID Act of 2005
has important, and perhaps unforeseen, implications at the practical
level for state governments who are required to comply with the
provisions of this statute. How would the cards and underlying data
systems and business practices be implemented in a way that is
effective, efficient, compliant with federal deadlines and other
requirements and within the available budget and other resource
constraints of the states? Within the scope of this discussion are other
potential models to look at as examples, such as the existing national
system for commercial driver licenses, implemented at the state level.
How the physical and online systems will be architected and built,
whether or how they will interoperate, the access rights and other
safeguards and protections that will be present or absent will all be
factors in the over all discussion of the ramifications of this new
federal statute.
Facilitated Discussion Track: Convergence of Physical and Digital
Identity Related to Real ID
This track is facilitated by Dan Combs, President of Global Identity
Solution. This discussion track of the MIT Real ID online forum is
focused on the assertion that the Real ID Act of 2005, once widely
implemented, will be an important foundation for the convergence of
physical identity and digital identity systems. This assertion is based
on the fact that the Real ID statute requires that each compliant driver
license be encoded with a particular data model of information and that
the information be "machine readable". As discussed elsewhere on this
online discussion, the machine readable aspect of the new nationally
standard driver license will create a strong market to use these cards
as part of signing on to all manner of web sites, e-commerce and
e-government applications. Given that the Real ID card will have linked
information that will serve as a physical token of identity (like
current driver licenses and other physical identity cards like an
employee badge or a passport) as well as a source of digital identity
for the Internet and other software systems and applications, it can
represent a widely used "killer app" for converging digital and physical
identity for access controls, authorization and many other purposes.
Facilitated Discussion Track: Balancing Interests Going Forward
This track is facilitated by Professor Michael Froomkin, of the
University of Miami School of Law. This discussion track of the MIT Real
ID online forum is focused on ideas, proposals and dialog around how to
best balance the competing and apparently conflicting interests
triggered by the Real ID Act of 2005. Professor Froomkin will use as a
starting point, his recent article entitled "The Uneasy Case for a
National ID". Within the scope of this discussion are practical,
business, technical, legal and policy aspects of the Real ID Act that
will need to be harmonized acceptably once the provisions of this new
law go into effect. It is expected that this track will begin mid-week.
If you log in before 3pm today, it is likely that not all the initial
statements for each discussion track will yet be posted. Feel free to
comment on any track that is available when you log in, and please check
back later today and through the rest of this week to see how the
conversation develops. As new topics are added or other important
changes are made, we'll try to send a reminder to you from time to time
this week to let you know.
Finally, if you have comments on the software itself, we'd be interested
to hear them. This is a test of the blog platform provided by typepad,
which we are evaluating for possible future use. We think it is pretty
nifty, but your feedback and suggestions will be invaluable as we make
our final selections.
Again, thank you for your interest in this important and timely event.
We look forward to your participation.
Best regards,
- Daniel J. Greenwood
Lecturer, Media Lab of MIT
Director, MIT E-Commerce Architecture Program
http://ecitizen.mit.edu
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44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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