Hi James,

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:18:27PM +1000, jamesguy wrote:
> The demand would be significant and could be applied to doctors, 
> professionals, where the transfer of confidential information is a 
> requirement.  The issuing of certificates and the like would need to 
> take place with local verification.  It seems to me that it would 
> promote the use of the internet for the transfer of this information.  
> While there are curently methods available to enable enhanced security 
> it is not widely used.  The US iniative is aimed at addressing this 
> issue and although I am not sure of origins I would expect that the 
> iniative was not driven by an individual submission.

NOIE have a project aimed at doing this - you may find it more
appropriate to pursue these kinds of things with them.

<URL: http://www.noie.gov.au/projects/confidence/Improving/index.htm>

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Thanks,
Anand

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