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

[Eric Dierker]

Dang it Joanna,

We are working on a project that involves sub locations for internet
connectivity otherwise known as Internet Cafe's.  By the end of next week we
will begin approaching Institutions like the UN to help fund this in and out
reach.  It is really quite difficult to manage and by tuesday we will begin
conferences.  The statistics indicate one billion users through these
channels.

But as users, or dotcommoners we must be patient.  I want a shoeshine boy
from Kabul to be the first voter.  We will not rest but we shall be patient.
This is why I have hire my able assistant Brooks although we have be
sidetracked as of late.  But we will give a good showl.  As Jeff has said so
well us dotcommoners own this net and we will control it soon.  Take heart
the AL will soon dictate terms.

Sincerely,
Eric

Joanna Lane wrote:

> I concur. One cannot simply avoid the fact that there are internet
> stakeholders out there who have nothing to do with the Domain Name
> Registration business and will not even be aware that an ALSC exists.
> What is the proposal to reach this group about issues in which they will
> have an interest?
>
> Regards,
> Joanna
>
> on 10/19/01 11:09 AM, Sandy Harris at sandy@storm.ca 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.