On Mar 5, 2007, at 8:10 PM, geni wrote:
Given it's Amazon it won't be open and may well be unlawful to create our own. They probably have a patent covering it.
Don't think so. They have a TM on the mark "RealName", but that is it. Anyone can setup an indentity validation system: all online shopping carts do: there is a subsystem called AVS ([[Address_Verification_System]]) in which a credit card is used to validate name and address of the person making a purchase online. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Verification_System
-- Jossi