[governance] Issues concerning standing IGC members

[Ralf Bendrath]

Yehuda Katz schrieb:
> How many of 'YOU' go to your respective National Elections and 'VOTE
> ON-LINE'?

This is not the issue here. We all know there are a number of problems 
with electronic and online voting in national elections, ranging from the 
missing paper trail and having to entrust the monopoly of force to a few 
computer engineers to the insecurity of the voting machines (in Germany, 
the CCC played chess on a Nedap machine).

BUT: We are not electing a parliament or president here. The caucus 
coordinators can not start a war, decide on taxes we have to pay, or 
arrest and even kill people. So the cost-benefit assessment of the various 
  options has to be radically different from national elections.

And don't lose the perspective here: Even with paper trail or highly 
secured voting mechanisms, a determined attacker could easily distort our 
elections by subscribing dozens of fake persons a few months ago, 
confirming their membership, and having them vote. So please, let's be a 
bit more pragmatic here.

Personal note: I am not contributing much to this list / caucus anymore, 
because these kinds of discussions about ourselves are IMHO just 
distracting us from the real issues at hand in internet governance. If 
people want to discuss substance or institutions of IG and even develop 
policy perspectives and suggestions, I am more than happy to be back more 
often. Just as an example: What do you think of the new Open Web 
Foundation compared to W3C and IETF? See Ben Laurie for a quick & dirty 
discussion of legitimacy issues with the latter two: 
<http://www.links.org/?p=351>.

Best,

Ralf (officially on vacation...)
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