The Dutch city of Baarn makes it possible for its residents to send an electronic letter through a form at its website. Through the use of DigID, this e-letter has the same status as a signed, formal letter (tc, Dutch). Communication through electronic media gets a formal status. The role of governments will be to identify residents, comparable to the way they provide passports to residents who travel the world and want to identify themselves everywhere. The next step will be for residents to communicate with each other through DigID, and even companies will get an ID. This official identification will mean the end of spam, but even so the end of anonymous traveling on the internet. This will trigger the coming up of pseudonyms, but that is a different story...