On 17/7/21 12:13 pm, Roger Clarke wrote:
... What does the concept "the right person" mean? ...
The right person is the one the vaccination appointment is for.
If 'an adult ...' is interpreted as 'any adult ...', the notion could be as simple as '>17'.
Yes.
Or it could be as complex as '... except where they suffer from the frequently-modified list of conditions ...
No. The idea is to speed up vaccination by dealing with this complexity online, when the person books. Once they have booked, on the day, staff just have to check that the person who turns up is the one the booking is for.
Who decides? Serious question: ScoMo, or 8 State/Territory govts? ...
Yes, that is what governments are elected to do, make life and death decisions for us.
What evidence do they depend upon to authenticate the assertion(s)? (Your original proposition was "show ID"). ...
Yes, some form of ID.
... whole lot more complicated than it first appears.
No, I didn't think it was simple. But this is a level of complexity which those designing information systems deal with.
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