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On Wed, Apr 9, 2025, 9:03 PM Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:It appears that mfidelman protocoltechnologiesgroup.com <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
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>Re. Can we do requirements before technology?
>Perhaps a critical requirement is that we provide a way to tie addressing to legal identity - the way we tie official physical addresses to names & officially issued
>documents. Passports, Driver's Licenses, Voter Registration, that sort of thing. For legal purposes - all of our various id cards, credit cards, etc. are
>authenticated by an issuing authority.
We've never done that before, so I think the answer is no, it isn't.
Once again, rather than reinventing an expensive lumpy wheel, how about we start by
looking at the identity systems that other people use. Although we are special
snowflakes, we're not *that* special.I have a different take: we have never required strong identity in the past, why would we start now?The main requirement I see here is 'Fred reads a draft written by Doug and wants to extend the work, before publishing his proposal, he wants to contact Fred to discuss the proposal but Fred has changed employers three times'.
Why not use ORCID?
