RE: [atlarge-discuss] Identity Verification...

[<bruce@barelyadequate.info>]

Yet more ways to deal with the verification issue.  Thanks, Walter!

Bruce Young
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|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: Walter Schmidt [mailto:walts@dorsai.org]
|  Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 5:09 AM
|  To: Atlarge Discuss List
|  Cc: Walter Schmidt
|  Subject: [atlarge-discuss] Identity Verification...
|
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|
|  On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Joanna Lane wrote:
|
|  > The only thing that has never been (re)solved...is ID
|  verification...the
|  > last, and most important piece in the puzzle. Solve that, and
|  everything
|  > else is just a matter of collecting, then selecting.
|
|     ...a three tier, low-tech approach
|
|   1 - Personal recommendations
|   2 - Individual participation
|   3 - Other real-space/Internet presence
|
|  Background:
|   - All "new" members are "Provisional," until...
|   - If "they" really want to spoof, they may find a way, regardless
|   - Let it be their responsibility to prove to us who they are
|   - Low-Tech can have high results
|   - KISS - Keep It Simple Seriously
|
|  Tier One:
|    They need to be vouched-for by two or three existing members.
|
|  Tier Two
|    As a "new" member, one has provisional-membership. As a
|  provisional-member it is one's responsibility to participate and earn
|  full-status if one wants to be a Chair, a Panel member, an Officer - in
|  other words, hold any position of responsibility. If not, one can stay a
|  provisional member, with all associated rights. Have a problem with
|  provisional/full - then call it member/authenticated member, whatever.
|
|  Tier Three:
|    If you are real and active, you leave "tracks," in both
|  virtual and real
|  space. Some of these "tracks" are more-better than others - you should
|  know what we mean and what they are, we should not have to tell you. So,
|  you "show us your tracks," the best ones - and we will let you know.
|
|  In Example:
|
|  A Provisional Member's petition for Full Membership status:
|
|  "J. Doe, M. Smith and T. Brown have vouched for me. I have been active on
|  the X committee and in the Y listserve for six months now. I
|  would like to
|  be considered for the Chair of the X committee. My personal website is at
|  URL. I am an officer of the Z group, URL, and committee-chair for the A
|  organization, URL, and am mentioned on both their websites.  My phone
|  number, (123) 456-7890, will resolve to my home/business address when
|  submitted to AT&T's reverse-lookup."
|
|  Or, "...a Google search, keywords WORDS, will show I have been published
|  in..."
|
|  Or, "...in addition to J. Doe, M. Smith and T. Brown, F. Jones, who has
|  been active here for B years, lives in the same town as I and knows me
|  personally."
|
|  Then again, if the best they can do is show us a mail-drop...
|
|  This would work...
|
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