Policy-Discussion

[Pieter van Emmerik <pve.cacert AT gmail.com>]

Op 20-1-2010 13:36, Alexander Prinsier schreef:
> The Assurance Policy [1] currently is very unclear about whether or not
> it is allowed to assure a name which is not in any government issued
> photo-ID, but which is a very common country variation.
>
> Citing sections 2.1 and 2.2 of the AP:
>
> 2.1:
> The Name should be recorded as written in a government-issued photo
> identity document (ID).
>
> 2.2:
> In order to handle the contradictions in the above general standard, a
> Member may record multiple Names or multiple variations of a Name in her
> CAcert online Account. Examples of variations include married names,
> variations of initials of first or middle names, abbreviations of a
> first name, *different language or country variations*, and
> transliterations of characters in a name.
>
> I'd like to effectively remove the "different language or country
> variations", because it's much too open, but still allow a backdoor to
> handle the technical issues. I would like to see that all names have to
> be on government issued ID, which is currently not the case.
>
> Therefore I'd like to call for a *vote and supporting discussion*:
>    
> RESOLVED, that section 2.2 of the AP is to be amended with the following:
>
> "Except for different names due to marital status, and except for
> exclusion of middle names, the deviation from section 2.1 should be for
> technical reasons only."
>
> Vote Aye if you want the AP to be clear about what is allowed and what
> is not, and specifically require a match with government issued ID.
>
> Vote Naye if you prefer to leave this an open question and allow names
> which are not in government issued ID.
>
> My vote is Aye.
>
> [1] http://www.cacert.org/policy/AssurancePolicy.php
>    
The way I interpret the rules you have the freedom to record multiple 
variations of the name as long as the can be verified
from a government issued ID.
However the name can be recorded different on different ID like name 
different on passport and drivers license.
As I see it transliteration is allowed as described in 
http://wiki.cacert.org/PracticeOnNames.
Translations from the name as it appears in an ID should not be allowed 
as it can not be verified.

As worded in the proposal my vote is:
Naye

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Pieter van Emmerik
Email: 
pve.cacert AT gmail.com

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