Comment Re. Free Range Voting and Network of Trust projects

[Hans Brucker]

Hi Thomas,

I don't have the time to dive into your Free Range Voting and Network of 
Trust projects, so I'll only venture a small comment.

Without wanting to be a spoilsport, and, obviously on a research level, 
these fields are extremely interesting ... but (here comes the but, you 
smelled it already, right?) ...

It looks like you are trying to do too many things at once. For example 
in another discussion you are talking about voters with addresses and 
voters without addesses. Next step would be voters without names, like a 
Wikipedia IP-only edit or so, I guess.

Here it makes sense for an early implementation to restrict the problem 
domain by (for example) defining that a voter always has to register 
with some kind of objectively verifyable personal information, being it 
his address, a copy of her phone bill, her cell/mobile or her social 
security number. This scenario would be much more realistic, in my opinion.

Another issue is that if you require n+1 people to grant level n trust 
which is sufficient for voting, this automatically means that you can 
game the system with n+2 people, because at that level you can create 
phonies which can create voting phonies. To avoid this a much more 
elaborated system of trusting dependencies is required than the one
described (at least as I understand it right now).

IMHO the system you are describing can hardly be built from scratch as 
it is too complex and has too many unknown variables. How about building 
a simpler one by restricting the problem domain and evolving it?

Thats my 2 cents. Keep up the good work!

Cheers
Hans

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