[chapter-delegates] DNS, hosting and the spirit of the Internet

[James M Galvin]

Eric,

Thank you for your excellent suggestions.  It is wonderful that ISOC 
Quebec has the members to donate the resources and services you need.  As 
you suggest, ISOC should provide complementary services, that is, DNS and 
web hosting for those Chapters that do not have other means to get them. 
We are going to consider how to do this, although it will have to wait at 
least two months until we finish with our IT upgrade and transition.


You also proposed the following:


--On Wednesday, March 16, 2005 11:11 AM -0800 Eric Alloi | BlankFactory 
Design <ealloi at blankfactory.com> wrote:

> And for membership, every member has to be first a global member before
> becoming a chapter member no? So why don't we have a global member ID
> and use that as a "voting card"? All on the list seem to agree to the
> "one member, one vote" principle. There has not been one note of
> dissent about this. How hard would it be to have a central ISOC
> database for members? I suspect that if ISOC HQ would only ask, they
> would have plenty of volunteers to make it happen (see how fast a
> conference was organized!), and that's the spirit of the Internet!

There are at least two issues to consider.  First, before a global member 
ID can be used as a "voting identifier", when it is issued we need to 
confirm that it is being issued to a real person.  This can not be 
accomplished in email because people can have more than one email 
address.  It is possible this could be done by Chapters, but to be fair 
to all Chapters and to all members we need a way to validate that the 
process is working.  I have do not have a suggestion for how to do that.

Second, we need to consider how to accept the votes and ensure that those 
voting are doing so of their own free will.  Accepting the votes can be 
supported in various ways.  However, how do we ensure that whoever is 
submitting the vote is really the person who has the ID being used?

Jim Galvin
VP Chapters and Individual Membership