RE: I Disagree - Re: [wg-review] 3. [Constituencies] Discussion

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

On 23:38 26/01/01 -0800, Roeland Meyer said:
>You know, from my statements, that I am actually in favor of the idea. But,
>it will take some time to develop the code, the procedures, and the
>mechanisms. What I meant by infeasibility is that it cannot be done, at this
>time. There are a LOT of details regarding eVoting, all of them deal with
>authentication. You know for fact, that I can send, at the next moment, an
>email that 95% of this audience will swear originates from you. Many of us
>watched Joe Baptista do it in the GA. I imagine that you could probably do
>it yourself. I know about a dozen ways to fix that problem, but they ALL
>need political acceptance.
>
>It is infeasible, at this time, and in this time-frame. It is a decidedly
>non-trivial issue.

Roeland is right. 
While it is relatively easy to make sure that no one votes twice, and that
only those who get a password can vote, is is not easy to determine if a
separate identity on the Net is really separate from another entity.

People may subscribe to this ML with more than one identity, and some do,
perhaps for purely practical reasons.

For the moment this does not need to worry us, as there is not enough
incentive to manipulate the vote.
The vote largely conforms with the content of the postings.

If it were different, of if  a lone voice tries to multiply himself into
something more weighty, then we would have to scrutinize the voters' roll
more closely.

What I could do, is to publish the latest voters' roll. (Names Only)
We actually did this when we had our chair nominations. All subscribers who
had subscribed with a name (some had not) were listed for nomination ticks.
If you have a password, you can still access this list in the Archive of
the Polling Booth.

Let's not go down this rathole of voter identity.
Please let's go back to discussing the constituency structure and how
stakeholder interests can be better represented in the DNSO.


--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--  
the Cyberspace Association and 
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
Elected representative.
http://www.idno.org  

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