On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:54:32PM -0700, Bret Fausett wrote:
> >> To the extent that the late registrations are coming predominately from
> >> China (as I have seen reported) or non-English speaking and/or emerging
> >> nations -- where information about ICANN may have been slow to reach
> >> potential members -- these "random rejections" have a disproportionate
> >> impact on these groups.
>
> > People who get news late will not be as well served as people who get
> > news early. There is nothing, even in principle, that can be done about
> > that -- the problem exists completely independent of the performance of
> > the server. People who find out about the election after the election
> > occurs won't be able to vote.
>
> I'm not at all concerned with protecting those who hear about ICANN after
> the deadline expires or who try to register on August 1st. But if people are
> trying to register today, but cannot, there might be a couple of things to
> do about that:
>
> (1) Allow potential members to e-mail their registration data to a mailbox
> on another server, rather than requiring that they use the overloaded web
> form.
You just move the problem to those who don't hear about the email.
Moreover, you open yourself to the challenge that you changed the rules
midstream without adequate notice...
> (2) Allow potential members to mail to ICANN, via postal mail, their
> registration data, with a postmark or other 'proof' of mailing prior to the
> deadline.
Same problems as above; plus you have to hire staff to go through the
letters and input the data. Data entry for another 100000 letters is a
nontrivial job.
> You'd have to move all deadlines back by 30 days, to allow mail to reach
> Marina Del Rey and to process the e-mail registrations. But you would have
> ensured that anyone who wanted to register had been able to do so.
Nope. You wouldn't ensure any such thing. There are still all kinds of
things that might go wrong, all kinds of reasons why letters might not
get there -- eg, could be a postal strike in Marina del Rey.
--
Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lonesome." -- Mark Twain
