IDv4 - The Digital Identity Company # The internet has always been built in layers. The data plane carries packets. The control plane manages traffic. But the internet was never given a native identity plane - a way to verify who, or what, you are interacting with. This missing layer has shaped the digital landscape we live in: difficulty distinguishing real from fake, the erosion of trust online, fraud and impersonation as ambient costs of doing business. For most of the internet’s histor