[RTTY] CQ to accept eQSL for Awards..

[Michael Keane K1MK]

This is the RTTY Reflector and not the LoTW reflector so thee are my 
last words on the subject...

On 1/14/2009 2:23 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
> I can generate a photocopy of ANY US license from
 > the FCC web site

I needn't have to remind you that the LoTW requirement for a copy of an 
identity document applies to >>non-U.S.<< licensees. What the FCC does 
is irrelevant.

So, what other country's telecommunications agency does anything similar 
to what the FCC does? I challenge you to demonstrate how little a copy 
of a license document proves by supplying us with a photocopy/scan of 
ANY non-U.S. license of which you are not the licensee Joe. If you 
could, perhaps you'd be making a valid point here. Otherwise you're just 
throwing us yet another red herring.

> The second step - an identity document - is a minimally 
 > intrusive way to show that the applicant is the person
 > they are represented to be.

How does a photocopy of an identity document show in any way that a 
person is who they represent themselves to be any more than does a 
photocopy of a license document? It is not like someone is actually 
comparing the applicant with his/her photo-ID.

The only value to authentication value in requiring a second photocopied 
document be supplied is that it would require a potential forger to fake 
two kins of documents copies rather than just one.

I love the ARRL. But in the ID-theft aware environment we live today, 
even I would have to think twice about sending the League the equivalent 
of my SS number or driver's license number for no good reason.

73,
Mike K1MK