Voting, procedures, costs, and privacy. Was: Re: [governance] Innovation

[Kieren McCarthy]

>> but these procedures exclude everyone who has neither a credit card nor
>> a bank account. i expect that is most people in the world.
>> or are they not rich enough to count?

> To my mind the answer is to try to combine various methods - a credit 
> card or bank account being but one method.  Others could include direct 
> contact as in the ICANN year 2000 election or an X attests for Y who 
> attests for Z kind of chain.



Just on this. PIR developed a system to be able to provide people in
developing countries with domain names for $1. 

It might be worthwhile finding out exactly what that method was and whether
it could prove helpful in this instance.



Kieren


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