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RE: Hiding Confusion
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of a KittyCatS official service, which probably could be totally web-based, and could certify certain claims. It would take some design work to prevent abuse or information leakage and, of course, should be extremely expensive. But I think the only authority everyone could agree upon would be KittyCatS themselves. Off the top of my head, I'm thinking something like you go to a web page, enter the ID for a cat you own, check ONE claim (Snow HIDING Lynx, for example), pay L$5000, and you get a certificate that the claim is correct or incorrect which you can rez and which clicks to a web page on the KittyCats site showing the pedigree, the claim, and the result. Some checks to prevent silly claims (Seal HIDING Genesis, etc) and perhaps a limit on the number of checks per ID, times per day/week, whatever. Just a quick idea .. it needs more thought especially in the policy and support arena .. but it might be doable.
Given the pedigree links the breeder uses to rationalize the claim, I could probably write a similar web application and give odds, based upon the visible information, of what is hidden (and odds that something unknown is hidden). But I'd not call it a certification .. it would be an analysis based upon available evidence. Before I'd even start such a project, though, I'd have to sit down with KittyCatS Resident and hash it out to ensure he'd be comfortable with my proposed design, especially with the scripted access to the web pages (scraping).
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Hiding Confusion
