Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Feb 23, 2010, at 8:34 AM, N. Yaakov Ziskind wrote:

> 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.
Seoul is a good example of this as well, but, no-one is even sure that
building age is actually determinant in Seoul. Most of the Koreans I
was working with swear that addresses are assigned by a random
number generator without duplicate detection.

Owen