and records the results in the verification section of the user 39 s profile which can only be edited by the verification agent 40 thus when other users u2014 and their agents u2014 want to evaluate a prospective connection they may access verification information for the individual or company being evaluated at minimum they can access a verification rating if the user 39 s access agent 24 grants them additional access they will be able to access more details of the verification users are able to link their profiles to multiple verifying and connecting servers profiles are thus fully portable and are not locked in to a single web site or organization with the above background it seems now appropriate to explain further details of the present brokering scheme by presenting an example of how it might be used in the following scenario a user julia needs to make new contacts to help with a project her problem is how to make those contacts as explained above with reference to fig3 making the right new people connections involves three basic steps each sometimes more difficult than the prior one 1 getting a list of candidates 2 selecting the most qualified candidates u2014 the.