[Edmond]

Yeah I think USDS is taking motivation from Verify.

I actually contacted the Verify folks about leveraging a privacy-preserving approached as outlined here: https://www.cipheredtrust.com/doc/

I believe they were involved in some sort of porn regulation effort launched in the house of commons with a lot of privacy implication, a mechanism as described above would address all of that privacy problem.

[toomuchtodo]

USDS does take motivation from and works with the UK version of the USDS.

Source: Interviewed with USDS.