RE: [ALSC-Forum] Re: Direct vs. Indirect elections

[Bruce Young]

Dandy wrote:

>Will it scale to the millions of potential voters, many just end users
>with limited access to limited machines, and many not speaking English?

So we engineer a client browser plug-in that prompts for language.  I
imagine if ICANN asked the public, no small number of developers would be
willing to donate time to engineer this for us.

>Give me administrator privilieges (authorised or stolen) on almost any
>multiuser system (certainly a standard Unix or Linux box or an NT
>network; I'm not sure about a highly secure system like Multics) and I
>can easily subvert any PGP software used there.

Maybe.  But if you need a unique PIN to do anything inside the encryption,
that should do the trick, don't you think?

It's nice to see this forum actually working out the techie-side "nuts and
bolts" of Internet elections.  Let's just not get lost in the details and
lose sight of the fact that all this is moot unless we prevent them from
hannding the At-Large over to domain name holders.

Bruce Young
Integration Engineer, Client Engineering
Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications
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