Re: A National ID: AAMVA's Unique ID

2004-06-18 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: "John Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 10:31 AM Subject: Re: A National ID: AAMVA's Unique ID > > The solution then is obvious, don't have a big cen

Re: A National ID: AAMVA's Unique ID

2004-06-17 Thread John Gilmore
> The solution then is obvious, don't have a big central database. Instead use > a distributed database. Our favorite civil servants, the Departments of Motor Vehicles, are about to do exactly this to us. They call it "Unique ID" and their credo is: "One person, one license, one record". They sw