1. Good idea: Use a one-time only code to protect student identity. Weaker form: using existing student number, which surveillance forces would require a subpoena to get. 2. Dubious idea: House it all at each university. Except around my university are "editing services' which i believe bring in papers from elsewhere (not all published) as "aids". I don't think the within-university model would handle this. 3. Better idea: House the centralized service in a country that doesn't honor US Homeland Security (or other countries') subpoenas. Perhaps the EU with its data privacy regs, except judging by their complicity in US "rendition", there may be a gap between what EU countries say and what they do. Historical note: When a friend did abortion(ist) research in the 1960s, and it was illegal in US, she stored her names/addresses in Canada. What was old can become new again! Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________