Here's a HN submission from October 2016. Here we are half a decade latter, it's still news, it still seems to have gotten nowhere. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12745437

This feels like one of those potentially really obvious, really sensible things we could just do, but needs just a little bit of leverage to happen. Trying to use the media to drum up attention feels far short of a world where we can more directly enable important connections to be forged.