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

["David Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>]

Paul,

That would indeed be very helpful for us.

I'm trying to get a dozen other things done here today - (Frantic Friday!)
but next week - perhaps we can begin to draw together a design
outline of what the foundation components should be...as a further
discussion point.

Thanks, DW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Spencer" <paul.spencer@boynings.co.uk>
To: "David Webber (XML)" <david@drrw.info>;
<election-services@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 12:13 PM
Subject: RE: [election-services] Developing EML OSI core foundation tools


> David,
>
> I am not a developer, so I can't help there, but I know the specifications
> intimately, so would be happy to offer advice and interpretation.
>
> Regards
>
> Paul Spencer
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Webber (XML) [mailto:david@drrw.info]
> > Sent: 22 April 2005 17:04
> > To: election-services@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: [election-services] Developing EML OSI core foundation tools
> > Importance: High
> >
> >
> > 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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