On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 08:14:55PM +1200, Joop Teernstra wrote:
> Roberto and all,
>
> The IDNO constituency will prove to you and to ICANN that Tony is right.
> Voting is now underway for a 21 member steering committee for the IDNO.
OTOH, you railroaded David Crocker, Kevin Connolly, and I out of the
group, and there is a clear systematic anti-ICANN bias in the IDNO.
> This has been a volunteer effort of programming, website building and
> listserv discussion.
> Voters' fraud from different e-mail addresses is precluded by the software.
> (every voter gets a unique password)
OK. Good. I will be kent00001@hotmail -- kent99999@hotmail, all
generated by software, all having different passwords, all voting my
way.
Password protection is amazingly naive.
> On top of that it is very easy to analyze web logs for any possible
> irregularity.
> For a few thousand votes you do not need more than this.
For a few thousand votes when large amounts of money may be at
stake, you do need more than this.
> We have Diane Cabell and Simson Garfinkel as observers.
> Even ICANN could decide to use this voting site.
>
> Of course agonizing about cost, voters' fraud etc.has its own
> attractions.
And glossing over the issues has its attractions, as well.
> I am offering use of the site for the equivalent of the cost of my
> attending the Singapore, Berlin and Santiago meetings.
> Sounds fair?
I'll offer the same thing for lower cost, on my servers, and I will
throw in some security expertise as well. Sound fair?
--
Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lonesome." -- Mark Twain
