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Executive Summary
  1. Overview: What is Digital Identity?
    1. Working Definition of Identity
    2. Identity as a Commodity
    3. Verifying Versus Revealing An Identity
  2. Introduction to Cyberspace
  3. Unbundling
    1. The Promise
    2. The Promise of Unbundling
    3. Privacy: Type I Unbundling
    4. Anonymity: Type II Unbundling
    5. The Technology
    6. The Promise of Unbundling Revisited
  4. Anonymity vs. Accountability
    1. Crime
    2. The Internet
    3. Link and No-Link: An Architectural Choice
    4. No Link
    5. Link Architecture
    6. Preventing Crimes
    7. Implications
  5. Mandatory Authentication Mechanism - Constitutionality
    1. Introduction
    2. Traceability as a precondition for speech
    3. Traceability as a precondition for access
    4. Constitutionality of Traceability as a Precondition for Access
    5. Fourth Amendment Analysis
      1. Introduction: The Driver's License Analogy
      2. Introduction to Fourth Amendment Doctrine
        1. What consitutes a search
        2. Reasonableness Test
      3. Constitutionality of Mandatory Traceability Under Current Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence
        1. Applying Katz
        2. Applying Reasonableness Test
        3. Constitutionality of Traceability Under Potential Modifications to the Reasonableness Test
    6. First Amendment: The right to anonymity
    7. Mandatory Traceability Under the Compelled Speech Doctrine
    8. Conclusion
  6. Technology
    1. Introduction
    2. Digital Certificates
    3. Using Digital Certificates
    4. Digital Certificates and the Unbundling Paradigm
    5. Securing Digital Certificates
    6. Anonymous Certificates
    7. Using Digital Certificates for Traceable Anonymity
    8. Certificate Authorities
    9. Completing the Picture
  7. Business Aspects of Digital Identity
    1. Introduction
      1. A Note on Architectural Choice
    2. The Business-Consumer Relationship
    3. The Ability to Authenticate Information
    4. The Ability to Unbundle
    5. The Business-Business Relationship
  8. Social Aspects
    1. Community in cyberspace is based on the interaction between people
    2. Examples of Community
    3. Anonymity Today
    4. Implications of Full Unlinking
    5. Implications of Mandatory Linking
  9. Road to Implementation
    1. From Here to There
    2. Social Norms Barriers
    3. Market Barriers
    4. Legal Barriers
    5. Architectural Barriers

  1. Legal Process For Law Enforcement Access To The Trace
  2. Digital Signature Legislation
    1. State Digital and/or Electronic Signature Legislation
      1. Prescriptive-model
      2. Criteria based model
      3. Signature Enabling Legislation
      4. Trends
    2. National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Law (NCCUSL) Draft Laws
      1. Scope of the UETA
      2. Provisions of the UETA
    3. Pending Federal Digital and/or Electronic Signature Legislation
  3. Federal Legislation (Pending)
  4. Internet Resources
  5. Resources and Legislation


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