Forms of identity (Was RE: Open versus closed PKI systems)

[anthony.naggs@atrial.com]

On 16 May 2001, at 23:41, Richard Clayton wrote:
[snip]
> Coming back, the computer again approved of my ticket, a French official
> looked at the picture page of my passport (practice doubtless makes
> perfect, but in the time he took, I don't think _I_ could do any more
> than just register that there was a photo stuck on the page). They were
> X-raying no-one's luggage that I could see.
[snip]

Generally I think the check is that you have an EU passport, or (on 
entry) of some (former colonial?) territory that allows you free entry. 
Further checks (of visas and/or work permits) are applied to non-
EU passport holders.

Tony