ABSTRACT
A useful national identity management scheme is a huge undertaking that needs to balance the interests of all of the stakeholders without becoming a tangled mess. Within such a scheme, we think that an ID card to be carried by citizens should be seen as a means of spreading the benefits of the scheme to those who are actually paying for it: the general public. The way to do this is by building a scheme congruent with the current age (see Table 19.1) and technology.
