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

[Peter Koch]

Irwan Effendi wrote:

> E-voting IS EASY

sorry, but underestimating the problem is also easy.

> Nowadays, votes are made in secrecy, due to various reasons, which in my
> personal opinion, is actually unjustified.

Some of us regard "secret" voting as essential and so do I. Although we are
not talking about national elections but ISOC's Board "only", the results
being public might influence voting.

> list to verify that their vote is registered just the way they cast it.

This is similar to how voting has been working in Usenet, but that's about
yes/no/abstain and it is not applied for electing people, which makes the
difference.

> Now, if we can implement that kind of system, there would be no problem with
> trust and security, would it?

Still there have to be provisions against fake identities.

> In the case that an individual join a chapter through ISOC.ORG
> Chapter is required to obtain the copy of the member's local identification
> (driver's id, passport or such), along with the recent photograph, and send
> it to HQ.

While I also believe that chapters could play a key role in verifying
members' identities, I'm sorry to say I have some data protection issues with
this particular suggestion. In fact, I'd really like to learn why chapters
``can't be trusted in general'' or how we could change that.

-Peter