Re: Permanent identifiers in QC

[Peter Sylvester <Peter.Sylvester@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> Would you explain how, when the name of that person changes ?
> 
> > This type of control is something that typically will be performed only in
> > case of problems, i.e. on rare occasions where some efforts to investigate
> > change in names are a reasonable.
> 
> It may be useful for day to day work.

Big Brother is watching You.

The simple desire to create unique identifiers to trace down people
has not yet resulted in a society where all indiviuals get a 
bar code tatoo just after birth. 

Sorry, we are living a a world where people can have more than
one passport, they can change names, and on all kinds of
official documents you need the name changed.

In most cultures, you don't change names *VERY* often. And the benefit
of finding out that you have not given a free gift twice to the
same person in 1 out 100000 cases does not really convincing
compared with all possible negative impacts. 
Sometimes, if you marry twice, it might be desirable to loose some
tracability.

trying to declare something as PERMANENT does not help anyway, because
in this case, some people will get multiple permanent identifiers
anyway for some more or less obvious reasons.