[122922] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Brim)
Tue Feb 23 11:45:00 2010
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:44:25 -0500
From: Scott Brim <scott.brim@gmail.com>
To: awacs@ziskind.us
In-Reply-To: <20100223113439.C27943@egps.egps.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
N. Yaakov Ziskind allegedly wrote on 02/23/2010 11:34 EST:
> Larry Sheldon wrote (on Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:28:03AM -0600):
>> On 2/23/2010 4:39 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe politicians should just keep their nose out of things that they
>>> can't understand. Email addresses aren't phone numbers.
>>
>> It occurs to me that maybe there is a reason why political conservatives
>> get so excited about "minor, trivial" erosions of sanity; why they worry
>> about "where this might lead"....
>>
>> It's been mentioned--why not "portable" street addresses. Fire
>> departments will just have to adapt.
>
> If you want an example of just what would result, take a trip to Tokyo,
> where house numbers were assigned in the order that building permits
> were issued, and you need *extremely* detailed directions.
>
Simple: you separate 'mail' addresses from 'fire' addresses. Mail
addresses are identifiers. Fire addresses are locators.
