"Independent Scheme Assurance Panel" report on ID cards published.

[David Biggins]

Glad you like it...

There's also this:

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/6/7/identity_assurance060308.pdf


Challenges and opportunities
in identity assurance
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Sir James Crosby


Dave.











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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk=20
> [mailto:ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk] On Behalf Of=20
> Peter Tomlinson
> Sent: 08 May 2008 14:32
> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: Re: "Independent Scheme Assurance Panel" report on=20
> ID cards published.
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> David Biggins wrote:
> > This is an official body tasked with monitoring the scheme,=20
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> > report makes fascinating reading...
> >
> > _http://www.ips.gov.uk/identity/downloads/ISAP_Annual_Report.pdf_
> >
> > And a "Plain English" translation of it here:
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> > _http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@456.XJGMbkMrzyM@.77607ed8/61_
> >
> > Dave.
> Great stuff.
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> Never has there been any sign of technical specifications,=20
> and never has there been any detailed 'requirement' (as=20
> required by EU procurement rules, including the ones that=20
> they are now using) seen, at least not in the public domain,=20
> not in the Chatham House Rule meetings that I have been to=20
> over several years, and not in the early stages of the NIS=20
> procurement programme [1]. They just are not designing this=20
> scheme, but are expecting it to come together with the help=20
> of suppliers (who, this time, because of the Act, will be=20
> culpable if it goes wrong) - that was the way we ran the Empire.
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> It is actually possible to deisgn the scheme: other countries do it.
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> Peter
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> [1] The only area that has had significant in-house technical=20
> expertise has been biometrics.
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