[ncc-services-wg] RIPE tasks

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 19:51, Axel Pawlik wrote:
> At 28/08/2003 16:31 +0100, Nigel Titley wrote:
> >Legally, what we do is for remote voters to allocate their proxy to the
> >chairman, who then "takes instructions" electronically to cast the vote
> >as required. I don't know whether this would work under Dutch law, and
> >it would also have some problems with the 2% proxy rule.
> 
> Like I said before, the Dutch law currently does not
> recognise electronic voting for the purposes of the
> GM.

And like *I* said before, neither does the UK, which is why we use the
scheme of allowing the electronic vote to instruct the Chairman how to
exercise the proxy. I can't see why this wouldn't work in the
Netherlands.

> 
> That doesn't mean that it couldn't be used for
> other purposes. We should however consider carefully
> where and why we would want to depart from the consensus
> principle.

We currently don't use consensus in the AGM, (which is what is under
discussion).  

> Having said that, we have been talking to our RIR
> collegues, to evaluate the electronic voting setup
> they are using. In the same vein, it would be interesting
> to get a look at the LINX setup.
> 
> 
> cheers, Axel  
-- 
Nigel Titley <nigel at titley.com>