[cap-talk] Can webkeys solve the MySpace problem?

[ihab.awad at gmail.com]

On Jan 15, 2008 2:25 PM, Karp, Alan H <alan.karp at hp.com> wrote:

> Clearly, verifying the age of millions of kids is impractical unless the
> verification is distributed.  Fortunately, we have what we need, the
> schools.  Here's a poorly thought out approach.  Each state board of
> education is granted a webkey to yurl.net (Where else?) that returns a
> webkey for each school district in the state.  That webkey allows the
> district to obtain a webkey for each school in the district.  Each school
> uses that webkey to get a webkey for each student.  We could stop there, but
> people seem to like logins, so the student's webkey authorizes setting up a
> MySpace account.
>

Does that mean that anyone will need a webkey to set up a MySpace account?
If not, then what does this capability authorize? If yes, then who
administers the capabilities for the rest of us?

Ihab

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Ihab A.B. Awad, Palo Alto, CA
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