To use a similar - and very loaded - argument - look at gun shops.
The majority of people buying guns use them for home defense, hunting,
target shooting for fun, whatever.
There's a tiny minority who will buy the guns to actually go out and
rob a bank or murder someone or whatever.
That still means gun shops have a requirement to verify ID, and a gun
store owner telling a cop tracing a murder weapon that "I am not the
document police" would be in for a very interesting experience indeed.
If we keep this analogy as benchmark (which many would mind). Gun Shop verified the ID and it was legitimate by the look of the card or document but they has no means to trace back the documents/ID to a real person. No online verification.
So whats the purpose of having such verification. Same is the case with RIR, isn't it? They check the documents but they don't have the means to traceback the legitimacy of all the documents and claims the customer is posing.
Correct me if I'm wrong?
Regards
Aftab A. Siddiqui.