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How do you imagine using that? Having an API for each country and each returning different data? With a 10% adoption? If my country did not like your country I
by BrandoElFollito 3y ago
How do you imagine using that? Having an API for each country and each returning different data? With a 10% adoption?
If my country did not like your country I will not be able to connect to your stuff?
A never ending must of problems ahead.
- superjan 3y agoWell the argument not that it it readily available, but that most countries do have an administration of their inhabitants.
- ForkMeOnTinder 3y agoSo instead of "There is a good identity", GP should have said "There are about 200 good identities around the world, but if your country happens to not have a single unified ID system you're out of luck"
- BrandoElFollito 3y agoThere are 200 good identities in the world with an authentication system closed outside the official entities. I have never seen any endpoint for the general population that can be used to authenticate a citizen
- maxcoder4 3y agoDoesn't it kind of already exists for passports? I can travel with my passport to (basically) any country on earth, so there must be some international support for this.
- BrandoElFollito 3y agoThe format of the data on a passport is unified (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_passport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_passport) but the problem is to make sure that the one who presents this string of data is actually the one it belongs to.
- zirgs 3y agoGood for you, but, for example, Israeli passports are not recognised by many countries as legitimate.