Tim Churches wrote ..
> The correct body is the medical registration board in each > State, or its equivalent for nurses (the Nursing Registration Boatd and > teh Allied Health Professional Registration Board in NSW, probably the > same in other States). > > These Boards already know who you are and they have a duty and great > interest in weeding out people who fraudulently claim an identity. These > Boards ought to act as Registration Authorities for each and every one > of their registrants, as a matter of course. The Certificate Authority > can be a separate body, even a private-sector one, so the Boards actauly > need minimal extra technical capacity - all they are doing is vouching > for the identity of their registrants. Naturally the system should bind > user generated certifictaes as well as generate certs for users whoc > don't wish to generate their own. The CA should publish the public certs > in a publicly-availale LDAP directory as HeSA does. > Without degrading from this comment, I was wishing that my Registration card had a photo on it, after forgetting to tell a third party booking me on aeroplane flights that it should be done in another name. Well, shouldn't registration documents have a photo? Many female docs are like me and their up to date photo IDs are in their alternate name. No effort to add a PKI cert. I could send one up with my photo for them to catalogue.
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