It's the implementation of this that's the difficult part. You also need to standardize how names are canonified into these legal constraints for when someone

It's the implementation of this that's the difficult part. You also need to standardize how names are canonified into these legal constraints for when someone moves into the state. Worse, there are lots of expectations that your state and federal IDs will have matching names (or at least, names that match in the ways people expect: First and Last, with some leeway for a middle to not be there at all or be truncated to an initial). See also this discussion of naming in Japan for the difficulties people run into when there is a system with both Nicknames and Legal Names: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6145768 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6145768