Johnny Eriksson wrote: > Robert Bonomi wrote: > >> Quick! Somebody propose a snail-mail portability bill. When a renter >> changes to a different landlord, his snail-mail address will be optionally >> his to take along, "just like" what is proposed for ISP clients. > > No, a complete street address portability system.
street addresses aren't so discrete that everyone doesn't handle them slightly differently. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_(geography) And over course if you want to totally overhual the way you do things you can just build your method as a hostile overlay on another system, there's a long and proud tradition of doing so. > Assuming that I live on 1337 Main Street, I should be able to keep that > address even if I move to a different part of town, and I should be able > to use it for all purposes, including when I give my home address to a > cab driver, and it should just work. Why can't we get some reasonable > legislation like that enacted? > > --Johnny >
