Re: draft-kolkman-appeal-support

>   
> > > - 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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