Surely they could have come up with that *before* countries started distributing them...

That's the most desperate acronym I've ever heard.

where the sun don't shine!

This'll so never, ever, ever work.

Be the mother of all IT contracts though! Think of the possibilites!

amanfromMars works for the European Commission:

"Secure idenTity acrOss boRders linKed, or Stork..."

....... and it's not in Schengen ( in common with the UK) .There is an ePassport scheme, so... it should be there.

... or is that a possibly the most pants acronym in history?

How about

Secure idenTity acrOss bOrders LinkED

STOOLED - and I'm using the medical term here, since this is what europrats usually manage to do to us.

"The e-Justice scheme will create a European portal to improve access to legal information and improve co-operation between judges and enforcement agencies."

I'm not convinced that will necessarily improve our "access to justice".

It has nothing to do with the unelected bureaucracy keeping tabs on us, then....

Metinks the time for a latter-day Wat Tyler is nigh.

A stork to deliver another EU tar-baby. Joy!

@Peter D'Hoye

The reason they waited until after countries started distributing theirs was so they could cause the most amount of disruption to the largest number of people's lives. As far as I can tell, the EU civil service do this sort of thing purely for the giggle of it. They *like* causing people misery. It's really the only thing that explains their actions and behaviour these days.

Good to see the Islamic festival of Eid becoming a fundamental part of the european union. I didn't realise there were greetings cards for it though.

On Acronyms, how about:-

secuRe IDEntity AcroSS bOrders LinkEd

"RIDE ASS'OLE" - Perhaps too American?

seCURE iDentity AcRoss borderS linkEd

"CURED ARSE" - For those desperate times in foreign lands.

Good job Viv's involved, otherwise it would be the cheapest crappiest solution, which would be as hackable as the Dutch OV Chipkaart or someother crud "entitlement card" scheme based on the Mifare Classic, like were being knocked out in parts of the UK.

My advice would be take a look at the system in Schiphol airport (known as Privium). Very slick and uses contact cards rather than contactless, so there's a reduced risk (---> 0%) of unauthorised reading.

Secure idenTity Across (borders) LinKed - STALK

seCUre ideNTity across borders LInKEd

..um you get the idea.

Sticking to appalling acronymns using random letters, I personally would have seen it as Secure ideNtity Across boRders linKed - SNARK. However, when examined the actual system in use will undoubtedly be Borders Open for Obfuscation, Just Under Microsoft. A boojum if I ever saw one.

secuRE ideNTity across BOrders lInked... for the neds ;)

secure identity acROss (B)BordERS linked... for tax payers

secure idenTITy across borders linked... for Paris

...would it not be fairer to give it a truly descriptive acronym; you know, something that actually describes what actually going on rather than just slinging a couple of soundbytes together and trying to pull some meaning out of it in the same way as a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat. Round of applause? I thought not.

I suggest: Tracking Untested Random Data.

or possibly: Global Observations Built on Suitably Haphazard Information Technology.

Nothing else for it, I can't take no more. I'm going to have to go out an get seriously

seCUre ideNTity across borders lInkED

Good initiative.

Annoyed that Greece hasn't joined the bandwagon!!

We had a huge issue in 1998 with our current (huge, handwritten) ID cards having a field for the religion and whether that should be filled in... UGH

I just wish they'd join in and get up to speed in IT in this century. When signing up for the equivalent of an NI number, my details were handwritten in a huge sellotape-mended registry book... Think church-kept records in the 17th century...

(I _am_ cringing as I write this... from shame... I wish I could teach them about IT!)

Surely they mean Stalk!!!

Why not sable?

Secure id Across Borders Linked (e) - makes sense to me....

I still wonder if IBM's acronym for systems that cannot pass soak runs - Failed Under Continuous Test (work it out for yourselves, sheesh....) - is true or apocryphal

The one with the alphabet on the back please....

As far as I know, this is not about ID cards, but about online identity schemes such as the Dutch DigID service, which provides a single sign-on scheme for national and local governments. In the case of DigID this consists of a (self-chosen) loginname, a password and (optionally) authorization SMS-codes.

The ID is that if I work or live in another EU country, I can use my Dutch DigID to get access to online government services of that country.

eBorders

eFascism?

google "rfid skimming".

Oh, no, sorry, I forgot the easy way: get two people that "know" who you are (or pretend to be), go to the nearest office, declare who you "are", sign all the paperwork and a freshly-minted ID is in your hands.

Homework for the amazed reader: state the country name where this is possible.

(prize list available on request)

Secure idenTity acrOSS bordERS linked?

And dont call me Shirley.

Here in Estonia we have working ID cards for over 6 years now, makes life so much more easier.

http://id.ee/?lang=en

Secure iDentity acrOss boRders linKed, or DORK

"..We don't need no stinkin' badges.."

Anyone?