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Executive Summary
- Overview: What is Digital Identity?
- Working Definition of Identity
- Identity as a Commodity
- Verifying Versus Revealing An Identity
- Introduction to Cyberspace
- Unbundling
- The Promise
- The Promise of Unbundling
- Privacy: Type I Unbundling
- Anonymity: Type II Unbundling
- The Technology
- The Promise of Unbundling Revisited
- Anonymity vs. Accountability
- Crime
- The Internet
- Link and No-Link: An Architectural Choice
- No Link
- Link Architecture
- Preventing Crimes
- Implications
- Mandatory Authentication Mechanism - Constitutionality
- Introduction
- Traceability as a precondition for speech
- Traceability as a precondition for access
- Constitutionality of Traceability as a Precondition for Access
- Fourth Amendment Analysis
- Introduction: The Driver's License Analogy
- Introduction to Fourth Amendment Doctrine
- What consitutes a search
- Reasonableness Test
- Constitutionality of Mandatory Traceability Under Current Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence
- Applying Katz
- Applying Reasonableness Test
- Constitutionality of Traceability Under Potential Modifications to
the Reasonableness Test
- First Amendment: The right to anonymity
- Mandatory Traceability Under the Compelled Speech Doctrine
- Conclusion
- Technology
- Introduction
- Digital Certificates
- Using Digital Certificates
- Digital Certificates and the Unbundling Paradigm
- Securing Digital Certificates
- Anonymous Certificates
- Using Digital Certificates for Traceable Anonymity
- Certificate Authorities
- Completing the Picture
- Business Aspects of Digital Identity
- Introduction
- A Note on Architectural Choice
- The Business-Consumer Relationship
- The Ability to Authenticate Information
- The Ability to Unbundle
- The Business-Business Relationship
- Social Aspects
- Community in cyberspace is based on the interaction between people
- Examples of Community
- Anonymity Today
- Implications of Full Unlinking
- Implications of Mandatory Linking
- Road to Implementation
- From Here to There
- Social Norms Barriers
- Market Barriers
- Legal Barriers
- Architectural Barriers
- Legal Process For Law Enforcement Access To The Trace
- Digital Signature Legislation
- State Digital and/or Electronic Signature Legislation
- Prescriptive-model
- Criteria based model
- Signature Enabling Legislation
- Trends
- National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Law (NCCUSL) Draft Laws
- Scope of the UETA
- Provisions of the UETA
- Pending Federal Digital and/or Electronic Signature Legislation
- Federal Legislation (Pending)
- Internet Resources
- Resources and Legislation
- Figure 1
- Figure 2
- Figure 3
- Figure 4
- Figure 5