<div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/31 Roland Perry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@internetpolicyagency.com">lists@internetpolicyagency.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
In article <<a href="mailto:4A7203E5.20804@gmail.com" target="_blank">4A7203E5.20804@gmail.com</a>>, Adrian Midgley <<a href="mailto:amidgley@gmail.com" target="_blank">amidgley@gmail.com</a>> writes<div class="im">
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<div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Already, nobody cares _what_ the address is.<br>
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When you are entering into a financial transaction of the kind that commonly requires a "gas bill" ID, then the supplier most definitely wants to know 'where you live'. So they can send the debt collectors round if you default.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Not exactly.<br>They want to know where you are _once you have defaulted_.<br><br></div></div>This seems more likely to be achieved via a single national ID card, with a single national list of addresses, and a single national list of people who have asked for people's addresses, the latter being made available to the people with the addresses, of course.<br>
<br>The person moving into an address, and asking for gas to be supplied there, does not usually show a utility bill for that address. <br>-- <br>Adrian Midgley <a href="http://www.defoam.net/">http://www.defoam.net/</a><br>