Re: Adjusting the Nomcom process

["todd glassey" <tglassey at earthlink.net>]

Accountability through Auditability is the watchphrase... no closed
processes - no one operates in a vacuum - no more secrets. Everyone votes
and everyone plays... that is the way its supposed to be right?

Todd
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker at verisign.com>
To: <dcrocker at bbiw.net>; "Brian E Carpenter" <brc at zurich.ibm.com>
Cc: <ietf at ietf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 9:10 AM
Subject: RE: Adjusting the Nomcom process



> 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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