Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

[Scott Brim <scott.brim () gmail com>]

N. Yaakov Ziskind allegedly wrote on 02/23/2010 11:34 EST:
> 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.

Simple: you separate 'mail' addresses from 'fire' addresses.  Mail
addresses are identifiers.  Fire addresses are locators.