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

[Sandy Harris]

L Gallegos wrote:
> 
> This discussion completely ignores those who have email access
> only, wihch is a sufficiently large number of people from many
> countries, that it must be addressed.
 
Good point. The earlier suggestion of a PGP web of trust would
allow those people to vote. No web-based solution does. 

I think this means that a web-based solution is at most an
add-on, something we do for the convenience of certain users,
while an email-based method is a requirement. 
 
> On 18 Oct 2001, at 13:10, Sandy Harris wrote:
> 
> >
> > Bruce Young 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.
> >
> > Perhaps, but it is not an easy problem, given the variety of
> > languages, and browsers, out there. Also, I don't think it is at all
> > clear either that many developers would want to donate time for this
> > or that we should be asking them to, rather than paying them for any
> > work we want done.
> >
> > On the other hand, many browsers already have multi-language support
> > and forms support and SSL/TLS enecryption/authentication security. It
> > is not clear we need a plugin, perhaps just a carefully designed set
> > of web pages and some translation work.