"Governments that issue civil status documents must ensure that the recipients of such documents, as well as the parties requesting them, have confidence in both the documents and their issuance systems." (http://www2.icao.int/en/MRTD/Downloads/ICAO%20MRTD%20Report/ICAO%20MRTD%20Report%20Vol.%205%20No.%201,%202010.pdf) (pdf link)
All conditions (having government, law, recognition, and history) you mention are currently being met.
Canada/USA recognize Six Nations, in fact are in care of much of their welfare.
Governance and laws are practised by Mohawk, Seneca, etc as they were established well before FirstContact. In fact, many scholars insist that the US form of government was at least partially influenced by Aboriginal government/law.
Where SixNation passports have failed is they do not completely meet ICAO's Doc 9303, which establishes the various security measures required for protection against fraud and forgery. Even this is outdated as new biometric e-passport become the norm. In 2004, the European Commission proposed technical specifications for a harmonised e-passport system, first requiring digital facial image as as a mandatory biometric identifier for passports and later requiring fingerprint data.
Trouble is can you trust ever trust such documents or the governments that issue them? Such satements as... "In 2008, the latest year for which data is available, some 16.7 million passports were on an Interpol database of stolen or disappeared passports." indicate those trustworthy documents are ripe with problems anyways. Israel has been caught forging passports just last month (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/15/irish-expel-israeli-embassy-official-forged-passports-used-assassins-hamas-65137087/) And e-passports are said to be even more troublesome, especially if the GET (http://www.getgroup.com/Pages/Default.aspx)is the lone world standard of passports and only printer of biometric ones.
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"Governments that issue civil status documents must ensure that the recipients of such documents, as well as the parties requesting them, have confidence in both the documents and their issuance systems." (http://www2.icao.int/en/MRTD/Downloads/ICAO%20MRTD%20Report/ICAO%20MRTD%20Report%20Vol.%205%20No.%201,%202010.pdf) (pdf link)
All conditions (having government, law, recognition, and history) you mention are currently being met.
Canada/USA recognize Six Nations, in fact are in care of much of their welfare.
Governance and laws are practised by Mohawk, Seneca, etc as they were established well before FirstContact. In fact, many scholars insist that the US form of government was at least partially influenced by Aboriginal government/law.
Where SixNation passports have failed is they do not completely meet ICAO's Doc 9303, which establishes the various security measures required for protection against fraud and forgery. Even this is outdated as new biometric e-passport become the norm. In 2004, the European Commission proposed technical specifications for a harmonised e-passport system, first requiring digital facial image as as a mandatory biometric identifier for passports and later requiring fingerprint data.
Trouble is can you trust ever trust such documents or the governments that issue them? Such satements as... "In 2008, the latest year for which data is available, some 16.7 million passports were on an Interpol database of stolen or disappeared passports." indicate those trustworthy documents are ripe with problems anyways. Israel has been caught forging passports just last month (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/15/irish-expel-israeli-embassy-official-forged-passports-used-assassins-hamas-65137087/) And e-passports are said to be even more troublesome, especially if the GET (http://www.getgroup.com/Pages/Default.aspx)is the lone world standard of passports and only printer of biometric ones.