The next stage would be to get your licence and ID verified, this would typically be done by either a physical meeting, if someone is close enough, or (more likely) via a video meeting. The idea is that the more verification processes you go through, the higher your level of trust. So when you apply for resources all the verification is already in place. This is especially important for BGP requests as it currently takes some time to go through that process.

Could we consider other well established forms of trust does as something signed via a valid LOTW certificate, maybe an pre-existing Echolink validation, etc?

--David
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