It's a complex issue that will quickly devolve into having technology experts supercede all of us in this room and your room.
But let me highlight one of the problems. If we don't have corporate ownership identifiers, we will never know whether the ACME company in database 1 is the same ACME company in database 2. We have to find the tool that ties those together so we know what are the linkages to the same data sets.
Similarly, if we think broader than just in terms of corporate identifier, in many cases, on regulatory kinds of databases, the key compliance issue may not be a company name but may be a geography issue. It may be other kinds of identifiers.
We're all sort of living the Web 1.0 world right now, and social media has moved us into Web 2.0. There is also a lot of discussion of a Web 3.0, which is called the semantic web. That's the place where you get these mashups of data. But that's where you're going to have to have these multiple intersections, and we're going to have to rely on technology experts to help us do that.
To the second part of what you were suggesting, you also implied a very important point about data standards. For example, there are standards like XML, extensible markup language. There is also one for financial called XBRL, for business kinds of relations. These data standards are the essential tools for managing data and distributing data so that we're not in the old school notion of everyone having to replicate a database one by one, but rather having one database and having web services call into that database.
I don't know if that answers your question.