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make sure orgs can have additional requirements if they want
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Signed-off-by: Tom Hennen <[email protected]>
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to an actor. Choice of identification technology is left to the platform that provides the
action (e.g. username, cryptographic signing key, etc.).

When identities are strongly authenticated and used consistently they can be leveraged for both of
these purposes without requiring them to be mapped to legal identities. This reflects how
identities are often used in open source. A legal name means much less to projects than the
history and behavior of a given handle over time does.
When identities are strongly authenticated and used consistently they can often be leveraged
for both of these purposes without requiring them to be mapped to legal identities.
This reflects how identities are often used in open source where legal name means much less
to projects than the history and behavior of a given handle over time does. Meanwhile some
organizations may choose to levy additional requirements on identities. They are free to do
so, but SLSA itself does not require it.

**Benefits**: By _not_ requiring legal identities SLSA lowers the barriers to its adoption,
enabling all of its other benefits and maintaining support for anonymous and pseudonymous
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