I don't buy the hot take that FB/Google are already the registry. They have the data but none of the infra to interface with extant systems.
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These all run of different tech. There are dozens to hundreds of contractors who make millions of $$$ a year maintaining software for them.
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There are gazillions of lines of code needed to build such a thing. Look at http://Healthcare.gov .
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Look at this: there are Four Thousand Three Hundred One DoD SBIR awards for "social network". https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/award/all/social%20network?f[0]=im_field_agencies%3A105729 …
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These words evidently mean something in this order. https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/873311 …pic.twitter.com/renm6A0f9P
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My point in this is that the government has had a firehouse of cash aimed at small business interests to do nothing meaningful for years.
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There is zero chance they implement a registry using extant FB/Goog capabilities. No, it needs to be deliberately engineered.
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And if it must be deliberately engineered, it can be deliberately resisted.
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absolutely - as a former consultant who had federal clients, the number of integration points is staggering
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it's nice to occasionally be *relieved* by intimate knowledge of how goddamn inefficient humans and bureaucratic systems are
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that's not how the alphabet goes at all!
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seems highly unlikely. Public backlash alone if it became known seems like a huge risk for them.
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