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 central database. Instead use a distributed database

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 swear