Yesterday I was at an all-day meeting of group looking into privacy issues around medical records. The number of people in a typical database of medical records who have the same social security number is astoundingly high. And, apparently there are 12 William Smiths born every day in the US.

So, it’s occurred to me that we could solve lots of our problems if we required people to give unique names to their children. For example, “William Smith1087b” or perhaps “Jeff ButterBurp12 Michaels” and “Rashid SneekerBang Jones.”

ICANN could set up name servers and authorize … Oh, to hell with it.

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