Re: [ga] ISPs and the ALM

[Marc Schneiders <marc@fuchsia.bijt.net>]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, at 15:43 [=GMT-0500], DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

> An idea is being floated in the ALSC public forum to involve ISPs in support
> of the At-Large membership.  As we have not witnessed any participation by
> our ISP representatives in that Forum to date, I am sure that they would
> welcome the opportunity to discuss their views...

[...]

> The real question is how to authenticate users - and I think that the mail
> solution is unsustainable.  Again, I think that the easiest solution lies
> through the ISPs.  Most (if not all?) already provide their users with a
> username and password.  I would ideally like to link to ICANN At-Large
> through the website I get to when I log in this with username and password.
> ICANN would not need to authenticate the users - they would already be
> authenticated through the ISP. Then the main issue would be to ensure that
> users can't bypass this process. This would require a little more persuasion
> for the ISPs, because they would need to add the link from the site, but if
> ICANN has any authority at all they should be able to pull it off.

This assumes that no ISP will try to create multiple votes. Why would they
not?

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