[93826] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Collocation Access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Thu Dec 28 10:36:28 2006
In-Reply-To: <1167282929.27878.5.camel@localhost>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:35:27 -0500
To: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
From: John Curran <jcurran@mail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 12:15 AM -0500 12/28/06, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>
>At the risk of dragging this to the nth degree... it's already been
>established that the ID yahoos have no idea on what a real ID looks like
>vs a false ID (esp considering all the possible combinations of ID).
That's certainly true in many cases, but not always. For those folks
that do an offline verification of state-issued drivers license/photo ID's,
they provide a relatively solid anchor for authentication. Again, this
doesn't imply anything about authorization, but you've at least got a
strong basis for believing that you are dealing with person so named.
/John
