Esther -
Given the overload with the server and the other technical issues,
wouldn't it be prudent to extend the deadline for voter registration
to give another chance to those who have been unable to access it?
OK - so who's the fuck up who changed the SOA values on the root servers
and fucked it up.
;; ANSWER SECTION:
.1D IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. zone\@nsiregistry.NET. (
This is not the way to write an SOA - the email address is not writen as
zone\@nsiregistry.NET. but should be
Believe me, we have considered this, and many other options as well! The
level of interest has simply taken us by surprise. The problem is that a
delay would then be "unfair" to those who tried and didn't know about the
extended deadline, and so forth and so on. Meanwhile, that would mean
Esther Dyson wrote:
.We are not turning away particular groups
of people; our system is simply rejecting attempts randomly.
This is more like a traffic jam with too-small roads, not
any kind of selection process or discrimination.
BUT:
To the extent that the late registrations
Looks like alot of weirdness in the roots today - not only is the root SOA
broken - I assume NSI is responsible - and this is an internet first - a
misconfigured soa for the United States Government roots - maybe I'm in
error here and SOA can be displayed - if I am please advise - but this
root
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 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
Curtis,
I wanted to add a little bit of data since, from the perspective of someone
who is trying to register (I've been where you are), it isn't obvious. There
have been something like 145,000 registrations on a system designed originally
for a total of about 10,000. The staff has worked
