These will become business decisions and not IT decisions. The CIO doesn't care who owns the software license.

Today, anyone's identity can be easily compromised,

The best way when they play you dirty is make sure when you tackle them, you make it a good one,

Get your black hands off me,

This is throwing software licensing on its ear and there won't be just one model emerging,

I believe you'll see over the next two years or so, upward of 40 countries that will adopt the new electronic passport with biometrics ( search ).