[92984] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Collocation Access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Mon Oct 23 17:35:06 2006
In-Reply-To: <BA2F6CAB78180542A571750BFB5E6C29025D8A70@Tin2003.hq.nac.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:33:41 -0400
To: "Alex Rubenstein" <alex@corp.nac.net>,
"Joe Abley" <jabley@ca.afilias.info>,
"Craig Holland" <cholland@rnmd.net>
From: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 1:07 PM -0400 10/23/06, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
>
>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.
I'll disagree; it's rather challenging to create a state drivers license or
state ID card which will also pass third-party database verification.
Hence, a requirement for such an ID supplied in advance with enough
time to verify it provides a very solid basis of identification.
(As smb noted, it says nothing at all about authorization, but that's
a different problem which one can address after you have a high
enough certainty for identification).
/John
