On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 11:52 +0200, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Well, I thought I'd try something daring. We have people > arguing about xml versus nroff (again). If you write Internet > Drafts, try this toy (and only vote once, please...). > If the toy doesn't work, don't blame me... I just found the > site with Google. > > http://www.internationalvoting.com/int3/ask.cgi?pid=22-143 As this is the tools discussion after all, might it maybe be a good tool to have a voting tool for the IETF? Just like the above, except that the chairs can see the email addresses that people gave when they voted. They could then check this list against the list that has actually been signed up on the wg's mailinglist and filter out discrepancies, might these exist. Thus a following process could be made: - WG Chair adds a vote (topic,description,options,enddate) - Tool posts this new vote to the WG's list. - WG members (*1) read this message and go to the URL that is given in the message - WG member votes - Tool sends a confirmation, to verify that this user is really that user that just voted. - WG member confirms his/her/it's/* vote. - Tool closes the vote - Tool sends results to the list The pro of this procedure is that votes can always be reviewed, checked, they are easily accounted for etc. And best of all, it doesn't require one to be present at eg a meeting, so if for instance there would be a vote during a meeting, even remote participants can be in the vote. Only requirement then would be that people are able to read their email where-ever they are, but that should not be a problem for technical folks would it ? :) Single side-effect I quickly can come up with though would be that people who are reading the WG maillist using an exploder address will come out in the votes as 'bogus' as they are not signed up. These folks could of course be asked under which address they are signed up or some other procedure. There are not likely many, though one never knows for sure of course. This "you are not on the mailinglist" can of course be handled by the tool. Other side-effects, raise your voice. *1) If you are not on the list, how else will you know what they are talking about, thus why should you vote? ;) Greets, Jeroen
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