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## uch "Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people . " II Samuel 24 :2 The Nature of a UID A UID l is a code which uniquely identifies a human being : that is, it infallibly (in principle) distinguishes him from all other persons. This concept is hardly a new one : from the time that one cave-man called himself "Og" and called the next fellow "Nog", the intent was to distinguish Og from Nog, and from all other cave-men . We have grown so used to our names that we fail to realize that they are codes, and that their purpose is to uniquely identify human beings . With the growth of population a name, no matter how elaborate, often failed to distinguish one person from another . With the increasing mobility of that population, a name coupled with an address often failed to identify a person after the lapse of a short time . Previously, these were not problems : there were fewer people, and fewer yet moved their residences . In the past, for the purposes of commerce, law-enforcement, taxation, etc ., there was in effect a UID and, though somewhat chaotic, it served its purposes well. This ad-hoc UID, name, is no longer workable in our t

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Author

Kuch, T. D. C.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Published

1972

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences