Hello, My own answers, after some coding and thoughts about it.
2007/4/27, David MENTRE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Internally, I use the participant identifier to identify to whom one wants to delegate a question. Now the question is: what should be the external API for this identifier?
I've decided to use a cryptographic token, i.e. a short string, to identify each participant that wants to be a delegate. When one wants to be a delegate for other people, he creates such a delegation token and give it to other people or publish it on his web site. This delegation token is used by a participant when he want to delegate.
Should all participants publish their participant id? Should we use a random identifier associated to a participant id and generated only if a participant wants to be a delegator? In that case, what should be the lifetime of this identifier?
Up to 1024 tokens can be simultaneously active for a participant. A participant can create or delete a delegation token at will. They are valid as long as the participant does not remove them. A comment is attached to each token (for example the real user name and email address of the participant).
Another question: should it be possible to delegate to somebody that has never voted on a question (right now, this is impossible)?
Right now, this is not possible. That could be an issue in case of massive delegation. Feel free to comment. Best wishes, d. _______________________________________________ Demexp-dev mailing list Demexp-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/demexp-dev
