Policy-Discussion

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

Op 21-1-2010 2:03, Alexander Prinsier schreef:
> On 01/21/2010 01:47 AM, Faramir wrote:
>    
> >    NAYE. I think it is clear the names allowed must be present in a
> > government issued Photo-ID, if those documents are available in that
> > country.
> >      
> It's not sufficiently clear. As an arbitrator I've come across cases
> where members have an assured account with a name which is not on any
> government issued ID. At least all assurers who assured these people
> thought it was not sufficiently clear and ok to do so.
>
> In these cases the name on the account is a slight variation or an
> abbreviation of the official name.
>
> That's why I'm asking for a clear signal from the policy group about
> these issues. The policy is unclear about this. Several arbitrators have
> discussed about these issues for many hours and are forced to make
> lightly founded decisions. A clear policy would help and solve this.
>
> So it appears at least some of you agree that in countries that issue
> government ID's, the name *must* exactly match the name on the account
> (unless for a technical reason). Let's go in this direction.
>
> For Europe only: do we allow names on accounts that can not be found on
> any official document?
>
> Alexander
>
>    
As per Assurance Policy for CAcert Community Members
http://www.cacert.org/policy/AssurancePolicy.php
2.1. The Member's Name

At least one individual Name is recorded in the Member's CAcert login 
account. The general standard of a Name is:

    * The Name should be recorded as written in a government-issued 
photo identity document (ID).
    * The Name should be recorded as completely as possible. That is, 
including all middle names, any titles and extensions, without 
abbreviations, and without transliteration of characters.
    * The Name is recorded as a string of characters, encoded in 
unicode transformation format.

and
Practice on Names
http://wiki.cacert.org/PracticeOnNames
Basic rules

   1. We do not assure anything which is not contained in the ID documents.
   2. The data of the ID documents does not have to be used completely, 
that is not all given names have to be used and names may be abbreviated 
under certain circumstances.
   3. A person may have multiple names as long as they are verifiable 
with official ID documents
   4. Transliterations are accepted because of technical reasons.

I think I can say Naye to that so t be clear:
we certainly do NOT allow names on accounts that can NOT be found on any 
official document.

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

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