RE: Adjusting the Nomcom process

["Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker at verisign.com>]

> From: Dave Crocker [mailto:dhc2 at dcrocker.net] 
> 
> Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> > This isn't a call for bureaucracy, but for precision. As 
> this year's 
> > glitch shows, extreme precision is needed in the rules.
> 
> 
> Interesting.  What it showed me is that we cannot anticipate 
> every contingency.
> 
> Hence what it showed me is that we need better statement of 
> principles 
> and less effort to try to specify every problem and solution 
> that might 
> ever occur.

I think that the chief thing it illustrates is that auditability is the principle concern in an election protocol and not as is often assumed confidentiality.

This is hardly a surprise, the protocol dates from the early 1990s and the need for auditability was not made clear in the crypto community until the events of November 2000.

Even today the major vendors of voting equipment have only begun to understand that they are not above suspicion and that they need to adopt a very different security approach.

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