X-Message-Number: 30606
From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Re: False name defined as "abuse" (was Re: [CN] CryoNet #3059...
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:13:20 +0100
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On 9 Mar 2008, at 15:03, Tim Freeman wrote:

> Unfortunately I'm not willing to implement this any time soon
> regardless of how many people are interested.  So the missing parts
> are:
>
> * Indication of enough interest to motivate someone to do it.
> * Someone to implement it.
> * The implementation, which could be done by manually checking the PGP
>  web of trust or checking notarized pieces of paper recieved by paper
>  mail.
> * Getting people to take the trouble to validate themselves with PGP
>  or notaries, and putting them on the new list.

A simpler solution is to have someone act as a Registrar. People would  
confirm their identity by sending a a symbolic payment, say a $1 card- 
based payment, to the Registrar, who would then certify that the name  
was real or at least that there was a real person behind each name.  
With an appropriate database to check for people trying to get more  
than one name, it wouldn't cost much more than this symbolic payment  
to actually cover expenses, assuming there were a large number of  
subscribers.

There are firms that run electronic votes for unions, etc. They simply  
issue a validation number to each person accredited as a voter. This  
type of software should be able to reduce the expense of  
identification to delivery of a single piece of surface mail.


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David Stodolsky    Skype: davidstodolsky

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