[ncc-services-wg] RIPE tasks

On the issue of electronic voting, I add the following information:

- "voting by correspondence" is legally identical that "voting by presence"
in Spain in all kind of elections. For the time being the way of
implementing the voting by correspondence is by traditional postal services
but the change into electronic voting is under study.

- the officially recognised European Telecommunications Standards Institute
(ETSI) legally established in France implements the following voting
procedures:

a) for the approval of standards: ONLY online approval and therefore no
proxies allowed.

b) for decisions taken by the Board: voting during Board meetings and ALSO
online voting when the decision can not be postponed till the next Board
meeting. No proxies allowed.

c) for decisions taken by the General Assembly (similar to the RIPE NCC
AGM): voting by presence and by proxy. Voting by correspondence is legally
considered in the Statutes but is has never been implemented.


In addition to the previous methods all legally valid, ETSI uses very often
what we call "indicative voting" which is similar to the "show of hands" in
a meeting  but electronically. It is a useful way of getting views from
people that are normally silent in the email debates but have,
nevertheless, a view when they face a specific question to which they must
say "yes" or "no".

Kind regards,
Azucena


                                                                                                           
                                                                                                           
                                         Axel Pawlik <axel.pawlik at ripe.net>                                
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                                         28/08/03 20:51                                                    
                                                                                                           
                                                                                                           


                                                                                                          
                  Para:                                          Nigel Titley <nigel at titley.com>,         
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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.

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.

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





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