[ocdtrekkie]

There's no reason EV policy can't be modified to also enforce uniqueness. In fact, that's what I'd expect if we're only giving EVs to household names.

Banks which have the same name as other banks should change their name, but we should tie EVs for banks to existing financial system institutions. For example, most banks in the US have an FDIC number, so our EV validators in the US can tie a bank to it's FDIC registration, and the user can cross-reference their bank with that as well. Basically if I'm a bank customer, I should have a unique identifier on my check or debit card which can be cross-referenced with the EV cert.

[aeternus]

How do you decide which one needs to change its name? There's no objective measure for which is 'larger'.

The vast majority of consumers are not going to lookup an FDIC number, and even if they did, it is still not optimal since banks regularly merge which would cause confusion.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

I don't think we really care, do we? I'm not really worried that I connected to First Bank rather than Second Bank, since both are legitimate banks; what I want is to ensure that I didn't accidentally connect to Second Bannk, the local fraud shop. "Is this site controlled by a FDIC-registered organization" is probably good enough™.