On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:19, J. Antas wrote: > How is that for a start? Does it seem pragmatic enough?
No. You mentioned the Norwegian system as one that works well. It does indeed. On e of the reasons is that even first yea children can remember their ID number, no need to write it down - it is your date of birth <ddmmyy> followed by a 5 figure identifier, allowing for up to 10^5 people to be born on that particular day (not quite, since gender and a few other traits are encoded in this 5-figure number along with a check digit). Prepend this by an "area code" of your birth (like the international country code for example) and add a 6th number, and it will be - truly universal - easy to remember - already contain some obvious identifying factors like d.o.b. and gender preventing some mix-ups. The latter can be a disadvantage in countries without any legislation to protect individuals from predatory data miners and information abuse (like the US). Horst -- Just go with the flow control, roll with the crunches, and, when you get a prompt, type like hell.
