[92956] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Collocation Access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Mon Oct 23 13:11:56 2006
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:07:56 -0400
From: "Alex Rubenstein" <alex@corp.nac.net>
To: "Joe Abley" <jabley@ca.afilias.info>,
"Craig Holland" <cholland@rnmd.net>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> (They let me in eventually with a passport. But if they're going to =20
> trust a foreign-issued passport as photo id, it's not really that =20
> obvious to me why they wouldn't trust a foreign-issued driving =20
> licence. It's not like they can really tell whether either of them =20
> are forged.)
What I've never understood is, that, how a gov't issue ID (for the
purposes of allowing entry) is of any use whatsoever.
It's not as if someone is doing a instand background check to know if
the person is a criminal, or wanted, or whatever. It's trivial to forge
a gov't ID.
--
Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, alex@nac.net, latency, Al Reuben
Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net
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