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 identifring information about a user must not be release without that user'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.