User:Grant Sparks/Online Identity Verification for Collaborative Communities
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Scenario
An online collaborative web-o-pedia has a need for a user identity validation/verification scheme for authors on their website. The solution must fulfill the following requirements:-
- Deployable with existing internet infrastructure
- Must work with top 3 web browsers from 2003 onwards (to pick an abitrary date)
- Revenue neutral costs
- Legal in all G-7 nations
- Can establish reasonable evidence that an author has the current legal claim (in the author's own jurisdiction) for the name that they have registered with online
Environment Scan
Existing commercial or academic implementations
In a Jan 29, 2007 article on Read/Write Web, Jitendra Gupta of KarmaWeb listed the following commercial providers of identity verification providers.
Open source implementations
Whitepapers and manifestos
Useful background reading on the broad scope of issues under discussion.
- PingIdentity (whitepaper) - [http://www.pingidentity.com/InternetIdentity010707b.pdf Internet-Scale Identity Systems
An Overview and Comparison]
- Microsoft Corporation - Establishing Trust in an Interconnected World (whitepaper)
- Read/Write Web Nobody Knows You're A Dog 2.0
Proposed Solutions
Overview of a number of possible solutions that would meet the requirements outlined above.
Bank debt proposals
- Pay random number of cents into a bank account.
Credit proposals
- Credit card payment of a nominal sum.
- Credit check or other real-life identity check
Regular mail proposals
- Registered mail. Not consistent across jurisdictions?
Telephone network proposals
Use telephone numbers,
Commercial providers
The expectation that commercial providers of strong identity verification become a new industry in the very near future and can provide the service either now or within 2 years.