email:verify

Summary

email:verify identifies a public backing claim for an email address by the signing Chronicle pubkey.

Fields

• subject MUST be of type email_address and identifies the email address being claimed and backed.
• amount MUST be positive. Its magnitude represents the cost committed to the claim.

Purpose

Publicly claiming and backing an email address with a Chronicle pubkey.

This connects the address to a persistent actor who puts their Chronicle reputation behind the claim.

Interpretation

Multiple pubkeys may emit email:verify for the same address. This kind does not resolve competing claims on its own.

Clients may interpret competing claims by weighing the credibility of the specific email:verify events and of the pubkeys that signed them. In simple cases, a low-trust or unknown pubkey making a competing claim may carry little weight. In harder cases, a competing claim by a credible pubkey may need to be judged in the broader public context.

Because Chronicle orientation is public, disputed claims can themselves be opposed. A client may treat negative orientation toward a specific email:verify event as evidence against that claim, and negative orientation toward the claiming chronicle:pubkey as broader evidence against the claimant.

This lets address disputes remain open to public contest rather than being fixed by first-claim or by a single authority.