Bootstrapping Identity and Consent

Full Title or Meme

A ceremony must be performed to establish identifiers and contact information among communicating parties before any other interactions can commence.

Context

• Given the greatly increased legislation that enforces the privacy rights of users of digital communications, some means is needed to identify and contact the parties to a covered interchange.

Problems

• Any identifying information about a user must not be released without that user's or a guardian's consent.
• At the end of the ceremony all parties have agreed and consented to their respective identifiers, contact methods and a trust relationship among them.