possible use case - verifying email holder?

Wondering if there's a way to improve the US of signing up for services
that require an email account and send you a "verification" link, maybe
with email providers signing a hasThisEmailAddress credential?

WHat led me here is the related-but-different story in
https://jameshfisher.com/2018/04/07/the-dots-do-matter-how-to-scam-a-gm
ail-user.html

Liam


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Liam Quin, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
Staff contact for Verifiable Claims WG, SVG WG, XQuery WG
Improving Web Advertising: https://www.w3.org/community/web-adv/
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Received on Sunday, 8 April 2018 22:04:15 UTC