----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >If the voter EMail addresses are openly available, it should be easy > >enough to issue a voter ID (DVC) to each and let them vote via the > >Internet. > > You don't even need that. If every owned of an .org domain were to > add a TXT resource record to their zone file, a simple program could > tally the opinions of what .org owners really want to happen to .org. >
You might want to do that on the Next Generation Internet with 128-bit DNS. That could be done along with "whois" handled via TXT records. I think it will be more likely that people using 128-bit DNS (with IPv4++) will have direct control of their DNS servers. At the moment, I bet you would find that very few .ORG owners have any idea what a TXT record is and they have no access to their nameservers, because all of that has been pushed behind the scenes with the ICANN MLM machine, that handles all of that. In some cases, you may find the view that ICANN and/or the Registrars "own" the .ORG names, so the customers have no say. In that case, you may find that the TXT records are added as proxies. As an alternative to your approach, it might save everyone a lot of time, if people were to just vote for all of the I* society insiders who should then go off and run .ORG. That is probably 20 to 30 people who will no doubt game the system this time around, like the last time. It will save a lot of time to just forfeit the 32-bit DNS .ORG to them, and focus on the 128-bit .ORG DNS, along with the 128-bit .COM Registry. -- JF
