Re: Subject naming

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think the solution was already presented to us in the film "The
President's Analyst" -- we simply have to replace names with serial
numbers. Names are obsolete anyway.

	Sincerely
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"Steiner Viktor, GD-IT453" writes:
> Doesn't it come down to "Computer vs. Person"?  Shyh-Wei - like all of
> us - grew up with computers which required us to use unambiguous keys.
> And most of us accept this subservience.  
> 
> Later - and I think that is the idea behind the DNs (doesn't that mean
> 'Distinguished Name' - think about it!) of X.500 - some people felt
> computers should be servants and not masters; we are after all persons,
> living in a personal society, and we have the right to identify each
> other (and the organisations we deal with) by names, rather than IDs.
> 
> "I saw Dave yesterday."
> "Dave?"
> "Yes, Dave Smith, you know."
> "In Marketing?"
> "No, he sits on the third floor above the canteen."
> "Oh, the one with the beard?"
> "Yes, that's right."
> 
> We're not interested that his ID is 6271534.  Let the computer worry
> about unambiguous fields, but let me name entities with NAMES, where
> necessary qualified by additional attributes to resolve ambiguities.
> Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Meilleures salutations / Kind regards
> Viktor Steiner, IT453