[93811] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Collocation Access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Vegoda)
Wed Dec 27 18:14:11 2006
In-Reply-To: <A078D3B6-2A18-4E0D-8C60-6E6AAF934407@ianai.net>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Leo Vegoda <leo.vegoda@icann.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:13:07 +0100
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Dec 27, 2006, at 11:20 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
[...]
> To open a totally separate can-of-worms, why not take my driver's
> license? Easier to replace than a passport and much less trouble
> when crossing borders. And before someone says "they don't know
> what a DL from $COUNTRY looks like", realize that they really don't
> know what a passport looks like either.
My driving license doesn't have a photograph on it, so using it as an
identity document is pointless. Some organisations use it that way,
but...
Passports should at least follow the MRTD standard published by ICAO.
I suspect the issue is the difficulty with verifying the authenticity
of a passport rather than knowing what the passport ought to look like.
Leo
