> - supporters are willing to offer proof of identity to a
> secretariat function of the IETF
...difficult, it reminds me of Usenet CSVs. What do you have
in mind, a phone number offered for a verification call ? They
would need to support different plausibility checks wrt WP:SOCK
In a quite specific situation I was involved with, several supporters of
an "alternate" viewpoint offered to make verification calls.
Unfortunately they all had the same telephone number.....
I find that generally the reaction from claimed identities falls into
one of three distinct categories:
- "No problem, here's the pointer to my CV, here's 5 people who know
both of us personally, if you need a copy of my driver's license just
send me the fax number to send it to, what else can I do to help?"
- "For religious/political/conscience reasons I refuse to give out my
identity to anyone, so rather than violate my r/p/c belief, I'll
withdraw from the case. However, I understand your reasoning and respect
your refusal to admit me as a party to the case."
- "mumble, mumble, mumble, civil rights, mumble, mumble, mumble, of
course I am a separate person, mumble, mumble, mumble, what do you mean,
how do you prove that you're not Bill Clinton, mumble mumble, what is
this identity thing anyway?"
What I draw as conclusions from these 3 case should be obvious; I'm a
little unhappy about not getting the full value of the input from the
second class of people, but to the third class I say "good riddance".
Harald
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