>> 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.
(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.
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.
-- Bret
