which sounds like it would, at most, require "online platforms" to allow the use of national ID cards as credentials, but says nothing about requiring users to use them as credentials.
Not even that. Page 11 of the document says what the European Commission is planning to do:
"In order to empower consumers and to safeguard principles of competition, consumer
protection and data protection, the Commission will further promote interoperability
actions, including through issuing principles and guidance on eID interoperability at
the latest by 2017. The aim will be to encourage online platforms to recognise other
eID means — in particular those notified under the eIDAS Regulation 39 — that offer the
same reassurance as their own."
So, no requirements, only encouragements. And even if it would propose any requirements, every law the Commission proposes still has to make it through the European Parliament.
For those among us who aren't so fortunate as to have a subscription to Physical Review Letters: there's a free version of this paper available at arXiv.
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0602091
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which sounds like it would, at most, require "online platforms" to allow the use of national ID cards as credentials, but says nothing about requiring users to use them as credentials.
Not even that. Page 11 of the document says what the European Commission is planning to do:
"In order to empower consumers and to safeguard principles of competition, consumer protection and data protection, the Commission will further promote interoperability actions, including through issuing principles and guidance on eID interoperability at the latest by 2017. The aim will be to encourage online platforms to recognise other eID means — in particular those notified under the eIDAS Regulation 39 — that offer the same reassurance as their own."
So, no requirements, only encouragements. And even if it would propose any requirements, every law the Commission proposes still has to make it through the European Parliament.
>How about using a proper source for this study?
How about a link to the study itself? http://primate.uchicago.edu/2006PROC.pdf
For those among us who aren't so fortunate as to have a subscription to Physical Review Letters: there's a free version of this paper available at arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0602091