According to Mike Lewinski via NANOG <mlewinski@massivenetworks.com>:
On May 30, 2024, at 10:12 AM, Christopher Paul via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
I propose that there be a national LDAP service, with OUs for each zipcode (ou=20500,dc=us,dc=gov). A household could register at USPS.gov and then be given write access to a household OU ("ou=1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW,ou=20500,dc=us,dc=gov"). The household OU could then create inetOrgPersons under that, each of which would have self-write access.
Your schema is probably good for 99% of the population. I do wonder though if USPS is the right / sole agency to maintain. Having 911 dependent on an incomplete database seems unwise. Or is it ALI? Not sure if it was Verizon's front end or back end that was the real problem there.
It's hard to imagine that anyone else would do a better job. You're in an odd and difficult niche which is going to be a niche no matter who handles it. When E911 was phased in, some combination of the USPS and local governments assigned street addresses to everyone who'd prevviously had an RR or RFD addresss, so "RR#2 Box 27" turned into "473 Pig Burp Road." I don't see any reason in principle they couldn't add street addresses for non-deliverable points although there is surely a lot of bureaucracy to wade through before that could happen.
The first time I encountered the problems of living in a place with no postal delivery I had a related challenge which was to obtain a new driver's license (along with updating vehicle registration and voter registration). New Mexico requires two proofs of current residential address which for good reasons cannot be a PO Box.
You should move to New York. My NY license has always had my PO Box and no other address. I do have a street address, and the PO does deliver there, but it's not on my license. -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly