On 2011/01/09, Roberto Gaetano wrote:
Fine. I said that registration data for a domain name have to be complete and correct.
Apologies Roberto, quite correct, you did say so: Sadly if the domain driver was truthful at the moment, the answer to whose vehicle it was would be "I don't know" in a surprisingly high number of cases.
Derek Smythe wrote:
But then again, to register a vehicle, proof of identity is required.
Fine. I said that registration data for a domain name have to be complete and correct. I am not at all against the fact that the owner has to be identified by the registration authority.
Also, vehicles do not traverse international borders without passing some form of customs point. At that border checkpoint, the vehicle driver's identity will be verified and it will be determined if he is allowed to pass that point. Such exit/entry will be registered. Potentially the vehicle may be inspected. Besides the fact that there is a difference between the owner and the driver, as the great Miles Davis said: "So What?". I thought I made it clear that authorized bodies had to have access to registration information. Authorized bodies include not only the authority issuing the licence plates, but also the customs authority at the border. I maintain that it does not include the general public. I am not aware of situations in which data collected at the border checkpoint are made public. Do you?
Domains are used for services that span borders and are not subject to these same checks (though some are trying to implement just that).
Miles Davis' 32-bar statement applies here as well ;>)
So yours is not really a good comparison.
I'll leave it to the readers to judge.
Cheers, R.
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