Multi-Jurisdictional Legal Identity Assurance for Capability Gating: A Design-Science Proposal for Tiered, Reusable Identity Assurance of Natural, Juridical, and Machine Entities

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arXiv:2610.00287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Identity assurance is the cost a digital system pays for dishonesty and uncertainty: it exists to make acts attributable when not everyone can be trusted at their word. A common way to pay that cost is flat maximum verification, asking each participant to meet a single high level of identification at entry, before any capability is exercised. Paid on everyone, it over-collects, excludes participants who cannot meet a bar they never needed to clea