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

[Eric Dierker]

I like the idea of several modes.  We should have at least the two that Sandy
suggests here.  I think a third through local authentication via Internet
cafes would be appropriate.  I certainly hope it comes to that.

Eric

Sandy Harris wrote:

> 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.