Re: internet voting -- ICANN, SmartInitiatives, etc.

Vernon Schryver wrote:

> For example, if Mr. Gerck understood "bug" or "database" as most of us
> do, he wouldn't talk about a "database paradigm" as a panacea against
> bugs.  He would know that the phrase "database paradigm" is quite
> evocative, but not in a good way.  If he meant familiar things by "digital"
> and "analog," he wouldn't have said that making a hole in card stock is
> analog but touching a keyboard or touch sensitive screen is digital.
I never said what you wrote above.  In fact, I might say that you got it
reversed in your last phrase.  And in everything else.

But, the subject in this thread was what the IETF was doing in terms of
Internet voting protocols.  Attacking me, personally, will not make this
thread more interesting, I believe.

If we want to use public discussions to mine the gold of truth, then I think
that calcite and rhyolite must not be not all that we can get ;-)

Cheers,

Ed Gerck