Re: identifi -- identity system and signed web of trust

On 9 September 2014 03:16, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

> On 08/31/2014 06:42 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> > Looks like similar work to some going on in this group, from one of
> > the bitcoin core developers.
> >
> > https://github.com/identifi/identifi
>
> Has anyone contacted Martti Malmi about this work yet? Melvin? It's
> worth a chat with him to make sure he knows about what we're doing here.
> Looks like he's been working on this pretty solidly since April 2013.
>

Sure, working closely with him.  I hang out in their project team area, and
we've dad some good conversations.


>
> We should find out how he's normalizing the JSON data (there is no
> mention of the normalization algorithm), which format the keys are in?
> How is the data stored? If anyone can introduce identifiers and
> associate those with other pieces of information, then how do you
> prevent massive amounts of spam in the system?
>

Good questions, I'll find out!

Not that Martti and Satoshi were the first two bitcoin developers and built
most of the current code base together.


>
> As Eric mentioned in the email thread, how do you get "real" verified
> identity in here. If we wanted to shove a government issued digital
> passport into the system, how would that work?
>
> -- manu
>
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