[41950] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT Re: Analysis from a JHU CS Prof
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Sep 12 21:21:18 2001
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Christian Kuhtz <christian@kuhtz.com>
Cc: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>,
John Fraizer <nanog@Overkill.EnterZone.Net>, nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 20:58:58 -0400
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In message <3B9FE472.521F1146@kuhtz.com>, Christian Kuhtz writes:
>
>Eliot Lear wrote:
>>
>> > OK. You need photo-id to get your boarding pass. Since I always use
>> > e-tickets, the boarding pass is the only "paper" involved.
>>
>> Under normal circumstances for flights within the US the FAA seems not
>> to require ANY form of ID. It's many of the *airlines* that require ID,
>> supposedly in the name of security, but mainly to keep people from using
>> other people's tickets. Continental does not enforce an ID requirement
>> at SFO, for instance. You stick your credit or frequent flyer card in
>> the machine and it spits out your boarding pass, which you then hand to
>> the gate agent.
>
>Even if you did require photo ID for the boarding pass.. I can't recall a
>flight in last several years where I was asked to present photo ID and
>boarding pass when entering the jet way.
>
Continental regularly does that at EWR for e-ticket customers.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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