On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 06:07:02AM +1200, Andy Gardner wrote:
> >OTOH, you railroaded David Crocker, Kevin Connolly, and I out of the
> >group, and there is a clear systematic anti-ICANN bias in the IDNO.
> 
> ICANN - that's the supposed "open" organisation that is blocking the
> recognition of IDNO?

I know it is hard for you to realize this, but the world doesn't 
revolve around IDNO.  ICANN actually has a lot of other stuff to 
worry about, and very limited resources with which to deal with 
them.

[...]
> >OK.  Good.  I will be kent00001@hotmail -- kent99999@hotmail, all
> >generated by software, all having different passwords, all voting my
> >way.
> >
> >Password protection is amazingly naive.
> 
> You haven't done your homework. Memebers are assigned a password by the
> system, not the other way around. You can set up as many e-mail address as
> you want, but you'd only have one that was issued a password.

Andy, thanks for making my point...
[...]
> >
> >I'll offer the same thing for lower cost, on my servers, and I will
> >throw in some security expertise as well.  Sound fair?
> 
> Go for it. You didn't understand how the password system works on the IDNO
> voting site

Gosh, I thought I did.  I went to the site, and I didn't see anything
novel there.  I understand how password systems in general work, and
I know their intrinsic limitations.  Perhaps you could explain to me
how this one is different?

> so I don't hold up hope that you have the ability to put
> together anything better, or have the prerequisite expertise to do it.
> 
> Stick to your day job.

Security is my day job.

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
[EMAIL PROTECTED]                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain

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