Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

ID standard verification meeting set

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has scheduled a meeting July 12 – 13 in Kansas City to discuss development of a national identity verification standard.

ANSI, along with its accredited standards-developer the North American Security Products Organization (NASPO), have been working on identity verification standards but this meeting is calling for participants to join in the process.


The call for participation documents state that the way identities are verified now is flawed and that documents are subject to counterfeiting and that properly issued documents don’t establish a definitive link between the person and the document.

The results of the meeting may lead to a national standard for identity verification, sets of rules and procedures for identity assurance and a standard that will enable relying partied to place a valuation of risk on to identities.

The meeting will be held in Pavilion 3 at the InterContinental Kansas City at the Plaza, 401 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, Mo.

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