Re: [ga] European At Large meeting announcement (today)

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:58:42AM -0000,
 Richard Henderson <richardhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote 
 a message of 50 lines which said:

> What's wrong with simply letting each individual user have one vote?

I'm not sure you're serious but in case you are, here are some
problems with the ideal approach:

1) Defining the electing body. Should every human on earth vote,
giving that many are very far from their first Internet use and
therefore have no precise opinion about DNS wildcards in ".com"?

2) Ensuring a free election campaign, giving that many Internet users
are in countries without free speech.

3) Ensuring only one vote per user, giving that some human beings do
not yet have a PGP key or a X509 certificate.

4) Combining the secrecy of voting (unless you plan to drop it, which
may be an option) with the ability to check the tallying (and not in
the Florida way).

5) Spending less than the budget of Bangladesh on the vote.

Etc, etc.