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+Identities — Groups
+===================
+
+    IFA Proposal No. 4
+    Title: Identities — Groups
+    Status: Draft
+    Type: Standards Track
+    Created: 2014-03-10
+
+This document is licensed under CC-BY SA 4.0.
+
+This document was authored by Dan Roberts.
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+**Table of Contents**
+
+- [Introduction](#introduction)
+- [Extensible Alternate Encoding for `tls` Items](#extensible-alternate-encoding-for-tls-items)
+- [Dehydrated `tls` Items](#dehydrated-tls-items)
+- [Design Goals](#design-goals)
+- [Changes to Processing Rules](#changes-to-processing-rules)
+- [Changes to Domain Name Owner Recommendations](#changes-to-domain-name-owner-recommendations)
+- [Changelog](#changelog)
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+## Introduction
+
+This is a quick draft of a proposal for groups in namecoin, to serve as a base for discussion. This page is not attempting at all to represent a finished proposal.
+
+I propose a json key called "members" which is an array of id names. For instance "members": ["id/domob", "id/khalahan", ...] This could be a part of the id/ namespace specification, so id/namecoin_dev would have the above group entry, in addition to normal id/ information. Alternatively a new namespace, say g/ could be created to house this information.
+
+## Pros of using id/
+
+* Compatibility with nameid
+* * This could allow shared accounts on some sites
+* Capacity to create complicated trees of organization
+
+
+## Cons of using id/
+
+* No real way to prevent cyclic references, this may cause grief for software using id/ that wishes to support groups
+* * This isn't a dealbreaker, allowing org trees at all will open the door to this.
+* Shared accounts may be dangerous if a member's id/ entry expires
+