Re: [election-services] Developing EML OSI core foundation tools

["Simon Bain" <sibain@tendotzero.com>]

David hi.

Yes of course however my language preference would not be Java :-)
C++ or C# either can be completely portable now.

Cheers
Simon
<quote who="David Webber \(XML\)">
> Team,
>
> It's been a frustrating week here in the USA, watching the machinations of
> the US vendors and stakeholders as part of the HAVA/TGDC process;
> the State officials are panicing about compliance for the 2006 elections,
> and NIST has not been able to stand up a make real recommendations
> without anything first being approved by the vendor engineering teams!
>
> Essentially all attempts at introduce real progress on trusted mechanisms
> at the foundation of the voting process have been stymied.  Along with
> attempts to introduce EML XML as even an optional solution for
> implementing in obvious areas of the process - such as voting records
> themselves.
>
> Example - VVPAT has made promising progress legislatively - with over
> 20 Sates having pending legislation to require it.
>
> Enter the vendors - with their minimalist market-driven thinking.
> Upshot is proprietary plexi-glass sealed printers
> that capture voting logs into the a sealed bin as part of the DRE unit.
> Needless to say these units are an order of magnitude more expensive
> than a regular simple printer.
>
> And sealed pritners fails true VVPAT on multiple levels; fails to
> enspire any trust whatsoever for voters (just more of the same in terms
> of hidden process); and also fails many of the principles of
> OASIS EML around voter privacy, etc, that came from the
> EU requirements.  Apart from those singificant short comings - the
> way the US is intending to allow VVPAT to be
> implemented is a marvellous idea...
>
> The long and the short of this is that it has become clear to me that
> OASIS EML next requires a solution toolkit that is open source.
>
> We have learned this from ebXML Registry and ebXML Messaging.
> Both have OSI foundation components - that solution providers can
> then take and deliver commercial solutions by tailoring to their local
> marketplace needs.
>
> I would therefore like to hear from members here who would like
> to work with us here in the USA (the IEEE team and the OVC
> - Open Voting Consortium - http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/)
> and develop this as a SourceForge project.
>
> I would also be interested in seeing if we can get EU funding for this,
> and or donations of existing code components to form the underpinning.
>
> I'm suspecting that new EU member countries especially would
> benefit from a collaborative development effort to get this code
> out there.  Also - does say the UK government own rights to
> code it has funded already - that could form an initial 'seed' here?
>
> A resource site hosted by the EU would also be great - but we
> could also use OASIS resources to host a developer discuss list -
> again OASIS is already running several of those.
>
> Assuming that Java is the target environment maybe
> http://www.jEML.org if it is available - or similar - is what I'm
> envisioning here.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Any takers out there?
>
> Thanks, DW
>
>
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