[EM] Delegable proxy/cascade and killer apps

[Raph Frank]

On 9/24/08, Michael Allan <mike at zelea.com> wrote:
> Yes, if Nmax (population size) is low, then a voting medium is not
>  needed.  The purpose of the medium is support the growth of the
>  discussion in the population as a whole.  By providing structural
>  "handholds" for agreement, it enables the discussion to climb in scale
>  - like a rose bush on a garden trellis.

Right, as these are hard to retrofit once power structures have been
established.

> I'm not too familiar with private associations.  My own test server is
>  public, but that doesn't preclude other admins from setting up
>  parallel servers for private associations.  If anyone wants to use
>  Votorola for that purpose, the code is free.  (And I can probably help
>  on the technical side.)

I am not that familar with them either, was just trying to think of
something that is small but still should have alot of the issues of a
large deployment.

>  There's a small side even to a big city server.  It doesn't mean just
>  big elections like Mayor.  It also opens up the possibility of voting
>  on local issues, such as neighbourhood improvement plans (like the
>  park scenario in my other posts).  That may be where the strongest
>  roots will take hold - closest to home.

True.  There would be a wide range of scales in a city.