Re: Re[2]: [ga] Manipulating the GA's voting rights... a new low

[Abel Wisman <abel@able-towers.com>]

hrmph, encore:

I hereby offer: webspace, domain(s), bandwidth, processes etc, in short
all that is needed, to the GA for use of common good.

provision:

request comes from either consensus based document or chairs.

same goes for the atlarge.com and alt atlarge (jeffsey)

regards

abel





On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 00:41, William X Walsh wrote:
> Wednesday, Wednesday, March 06, 2002, 12:48:11 PM, Joop Teernstra wrote:
> 
> > At 18:44 6/03/02 +0100, Jefsey Morfin wrote:
> >>>l
> >>
> >>This wording does not prevent the GA to vote in using other solutions than 
> >>the DNSO Secretariat. Would the NC and the BoD consider the results of 
> >>such votes? The Secretariat owns the voting list (e-mails). Could we 
> >>establish a polling committee having access to the list and establishing 
> >>an acceptable authentification system?
> 
> > Somebody would still have to actually run it and it would still have a cost.
> > TANSTAAFL.
> 
> Bullocks.  A properly setup polling system would allow the GA chair to
> manage the creation of votes, and allow the existing watchdog
> committee to supervise the results without any hassle, and still
> provide the same accountability to the GA members that the current
> system provides.
> 
> As for cost, if commercial hosting were needed, provided the software
> continued to be based on open source products and not expensive
> proprietary environments that require large per server licensing
> fees, the hosting for such a beast would be under $15/mo.  And with
> all the resources available here I'm sure getting that donated would
> be no problem.  The host cannot manipulate the outcome if the system
> is developed along the same lines as the existing system.
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>
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> 
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