"John Stoffel" wrote:
>Exactly. And it doesn't scale. Even at my small 400-500 person
>company we have conflicts with names. So, if you have two
>john.sm...@foo.com, who gets the email? Riddle me that batman...
When snail mail arrives addressed to John Smith, it usually gets to
the right person even with such ambiguities. How? Because the envelope
usually contains some additional information like, Manager of Hardware
Development, or, Customer Service Department. Perhaps you'd prefer to
use the X.400/500 naming scheme, which provides for such qualification?
Of course, then an address would have to change with every promotion.
In the US, we have a universal identifier, SSN, which the law prohibits
using for that purpose. Many other countries have a similar identifier.
Prefix it with a country code and these could be truly universal. But
still not good enough because some people have numbers in more than one
country.
We should just accept that a universal identifier is not practical, and
perhaps not desireable.
--
Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359
d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu
"Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it." - Ronald Reagan
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