RE: [election-services] EML v6 : EAC REQUIREMENTS

["Zelechoski, Peter" <pzelechoski@essvote.com>]

John, all -

 

If they are discussing the EDX that was submitted to IEEE for consideration by P1622, it was created by Hart-InterCivic.  Both EDX and EML had holes; most of those were fixed by us (EML TC); Hart never completely addressed all of their holes.  If there is someone influencing this it would probably be from that venue.

 

The one thing we do know is that the individual at NIST that originally looked at EML was predisposed to look at EML as not U.S. centric, as many have been.  That is an unfortunate situation because I have been able to make it do whatever I needed by opening up my mind a bit.

 

- Peter

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From: John Borras [mailto:john@pensive.eu]
Sent: 2009-05-12 4:31 AM
To: david@drrw.info
Cc: election-services@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [election-services] EML v6 : EAC REQUIREMENTS

David

 

One aspect that we really need to do our homework on before we finalise v6 is the ongoing debate around the EAC’s Voting Systems Requirements.   The story as far as I know it to date is as follows:

 

The EAC put out for public comment the draft requirements prepared by its TDGC committee, see http://www.eac.gov/files/vvsg/Final-TGDC-VVSG-08312007.pdf and in particular Section 6.6 Integratability and Data Export/Interchange. 

 

The majority of public comments received favoured a much more positive line on the sue of an open standard for data interchange and supported the use of EML in that context.

 

The NIST recommendations to the EAC committee following the public comments is available at http://www.eac.gov/program-areas/voting-systems/voluntary-voting-guidelines/index_html/?searchterm=voting%20systems%20guidelines  and not surprisingly they are rather dismissive of EML saying it’s not up to the job etc.

 

At a recent meeting of the committee EDX was brought into the equation as the more likely standard to use.  Where and how that has suddenly emerged from as it wasn’t part of the original consultation document I don’t know.  My inside sources however told me that there was no discussion on this point at the meeting.

 

The EAC committee has not finalised its new Guidelines but instead has gone off down the road of looking into testing and certification.

 

I am trying to get Laurent Liscia to take up his seat on the EAC committee.

 

So the least we should do is double-check that we can meet all the requirements set out in the original TDGC document and the subsequent NIST report.  Thereafter we will have to rely on politics and our supporters to press our case plus hopefully in the not too distant future being able to cite ourselves as the ISO standard for e-voting.

 

John