On Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 6:20 AM mfidelman protocoltechnologiesgroup.com <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Note that I suggested a scheme for supporting both legal identities & role-based identities - using authentication systems that are already in use in our normal legal, financial, and organizational lives.
And... It occurs to me to suggest that this whole set of issues is a legitimate topic for IETF standardization, and delegation to ICANN & the registries to support.
Beyond that, if we want to camp onto something that already exists, why ORCID? Why not X.409, or ... Shibboleth?
Miles,
The problem is not authenticating that Bob Smith is Bob Smith. We don't actually care about that. The challenge is differentiating the various Bob Smiths as they change jobs and linking their publications together. That's what ORICD does and other systems don't.
Miles
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2025 8:09 AM
To: Maria Matejka <maria.matejka=40nic.cz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: mfidelman protocoltechnologiesgroup.com <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Rich <rsalz=40akamai.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; ietf@xxxxxxxx <ietf@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: AuthorshipMaria Matejka wrote on 11/04/2025 10:10:
> Forcing people to use their legal identity
or legal identities. It's a fallacy in many jurisdictions that people
have a single legal identity.
Nick
