[IFWP] Re: You are Turning Away Outside Members Who Attempt To Register

2000-07-28 Thread Mikki Barry
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?

[IFWP] The ROOT servers are misconfigured - please fix ASAP

2000-07-28 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
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

Re: [IFWP] Re: You are Turning Away Outside Members Who Attempt To Register

2000-07-28 Thread Esther Dyson
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

Re: [IFWP] Re: You are Turning Away Outside Members Who Attempt To Register

2000-07-28 Thread Bret A. Fausett
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

[IFWP] Re: The ROOT servers are misconfigured - please fix ASAP

2000-07-28 Thread !Dr. Joe Baptista
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

Re: [IFWP] Re: You are Turning Away Outside Members Who AttemptTo Register

2000-07-28 Thread Bret A. Fausett
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

Re: [IFWP] Re: You are Turning Away Outside Members Who Attempt To Register

2000-07-28 Thread Kent Crispin
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

[IFWP] Re: [icann-board] Re: You are Turning Away Outside Members Who AttemptTo Register

2000-07-28 Thread vinton g. cerf
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