Binding Tokens to Physical Identity?

[ChristopherA]

/re binding-identity-in-decentralized-system.md #bce5f9a
/cc @wthayer

Wayne asks:

There are valid and valuable use cases for binding verified physical identities in a decentralized web-of-trust system. Is this really a problem, and if so, should we ignore it, integrate traditional CA verification methods, or find a new way to solve it?

A comment and question to the participants this week:

Binding a token (aka private key) to attributes (a unique identifier) is already hard enough, do we need to tackle the problem of also binding these both to physical identity _at this Designshop_? We could tackle these problems separately later, but it does make it difficult to help the #identity2020 people with their Refugee Use Case.