Policy-Discussion

[Duane <duane AT cacert.org>]

Ian G wrote:

> Also, we should think carefully if we need the under 18 / 
> over 18 distinction, and it's usage is just because the DoB 
> is recorded.  In the absence of the DoB what problems would 
> there be?

There is some greyness over the (legal) usefulness of information 
supplied by under 18's that aren't co-signed by a parent or guardian.

> (It isn't the only reason, Duane identified the partial 
> uniqueness issue, but again there are solutions to that 
> elsewhere.)

Since names aren't unique what is the bet way to match details on 
documents, to details stored in the system, since we don't store photos, 
perhaps we should, so photos on ID aren't directly useful at this point 
in time. So we don't store document ID numbers so we can't link a person 
to a document that way either.

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