Why doesn DACS provide support for account self-registration?
For some web-based systems, it is convenient for users to create their own accounts based on some form of readily confirmable identity. Most commonly, at account creation time a user is asked to provide an email address. The system sends a message to the user’s purported email address; if the user confirms receipt of the message within a given period of time (often by invoking a specified URL or replying to the message), the system accepts the email address as a unique identifier for the user’s account (sometimes, or it uses the email address for functions such as password recovery) and proceeds with account creation. Design and implementation of a simple, general purpose mechanism to conduct this type of registration procedure is currently in progress.
