John
Firstly my very best wishes to you for the
New Year with many hopes that 2008 might provide more encouragement for the
future implementation of EML following all of the hard work that we have all,
and especially you, been involved in for many previous years.
I apologise for that I have joined this
debate rather belatedly but can assure you that I have been following the
correspondence etc with a great deal of interest.
Regretfully I agree with both David and Peter
and that it really looks like this is not the time to face the US
market. We all know that all those involved in elections is the States,
at this time, will have one election paramount on their minds and their
slowness in responding to any requests from us and Dee emphasizes this.
Additionally we need to remember that our
prime intention is to influence NIST and their lack of real interest at this
time gives little encouragement.
Like you I was hoping that this might be a
way to move forward but with just a month to go and still no real indication of
likely costs, let alone possible advantages, leaves me convinced that we need
to think again.
We need to ensure that anything we do is
really effective and well thought out and I think, like Peter, that time is now
against us. Lets start thinking about how we might do something later in
the year and make it something that will make US election officials sit up and
think!
Best
wishes
Roy Hill
Director Research and Innovation
OPT2VOTE Ltd
All opinions expressed are my own.
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From: John Borras
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Sent: 31 December 2007 09:24
To: EML TC; Lori Steele; Dee Schur
Cc: Stuart Harrington
Subject: [election-services] EML :
USA
INTEROP DEMO
Despite the valiant efforts of Dee we
still have had no response from the NASED conference organisers to our request
to run the Demo at their event. So we are reaching a crunch point when we
will need to decide what to do, not least because most of us will
have flights and hotels to book. I have provisionally set a
telecon to discuss all this next Friday 4th Jan but it would be
useful to get some early thoughts from you before then if
possible. Depending on views we can go ahead with the telecon or
cancel it.
Just to remind you all, NASS (Nat Assoc of State Senators) and NASED
(Nat Assoc of State Election Directors) hold a joint event but run
separate conferences. Delegates intermingle between sessions and there is
a joint session on the last day. NASS have a demo area and have offered
us a slot there to run the Demo but no conference presentation time.
NASED have not offered anything, yet.
It seems to me we have the following options:
1. Abandon the demo at this event and look for other opportunities.
Both groups have summer conferences so we could postpone until then or look for
other opportunities in the Spring.
2. Go ahead with the NASS offering albeit it's not the best group
of delegates to attract, and hence might not get a lot of interest, although
we might get some NASED people drifting in. Also we would not be able
to present the results to the conference but can post them on websites
afterwards.
3. Forget the whole idea.
Dee no doubt will continue
to press NASED but she must give them an ultimatum very soon.
I've given you my opinions on this demo in previous e-mails, ie we need
maximum preparation time and commitment for this one in view of the
complexities required. I do not believe we should cut corners and do a
last minute rush job. So if we cannot do the proper planning and
preparation then we should not go ahead.
Your views on all of this would be appreciated and also whether the
telecon on Friday is necessary.
Wishing you all a very happy and successful New Year.
Regards
John
M. +44 (0)7976 157745
Skype: gov3john
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