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Re:Man Allegedly Used Change of Address Form to Move UPS Hea... by kylec on Thursday May 10, 2018 @08:05PM (#17043937)
National IDs? Lookup fees? Yikes. I like the idea, but your proposed implementation needs some work.

Let's just do what we do with DNS and let anyone register a globally unique identifier. When USPS or FedEx or whomever wants to deliver to that address, they just perform a lookup to find the physical address to deliver to. You could create different identifiers for the different sorts of things you want delivered, and if you start to get a lot of spam you could just delete it and create a new one.

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Re:Man Allegedly Used Change of Address Form to Move UPS Hea... by solatic on Friday May 11, 2018 @06:47AM (#17046218)
And what prevents your neighbor from changing the address that the GUID points to? How does USPS or FedEx know that the person trying to edit the GUID's address is the person who owns the GUID?

The reason why it needs to be handled through national ID numbers is because ultimately, national governments are today's identity arbiters, and they do the best job of verifying identity. They're not perfect, but they're the best body for the task, and strong, verifiable identity is the foundation upon which all other security is built.

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Re:Man Allegedly Used Change of Address Form to Move UPS Hea... by kylec on Friday May 11, 2018 @02:08PM (#17049547)
What prevents me from changing the IP that a domain points to? The registrar of that domain won't let me log in and change it without the correct username and password. No national IDs needed, or involved in any way.
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