Please get me off this list.
TNX!
At 12:18 PM 07/28/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 10:53:42AM -0700, Bret Fausett wrote:
>> 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 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.
>
>All indications are that the news is continuing to spread, and at a
>growing rate. The number of registrations has been building
>continuously, with no particular end in sight; it appears that if we
>waited a year or so there would be millions of registrations. More
>important: it appears that people are going into overdrive to try to get
>registrations before the cutoff date -- I got "dear activist" spam from
>Lowenhaupt to an address that has nothing to at all do with dns matters,
>urging me to register. The inevitable consequence of this is server
>meltdown, sometime before the cutoff -- it doesn't matter what steps are
>taken to improve the server. It won't help to push back the deadline,
>either -- it will just delay the meltdown.
>
>Markle put up a couple hundred thousand to cover this; current
>registrations are well over 100000; most of the Markle money will be
>used up in the mailing costs for the PIN letters alone.
>
>There is absolutely no way that the 100000 applicants are knowledgable
>in the matters that ICANN is supposed to be concerned with; the result
>is that the election will be campaigned on the basis of pure populist
>politics.
>
>According to the last figures posted, China has 28732 applications, and
>Japan has 33227. There appears to be a heavy-duty nationalistic race
>underway. Taiwan has 10780. Korea has 6247, well placed to broker
>swing votes. The election for the asia-pacific board seat is a pure
>regional power struggle. Similar things are happening in europe. This
>is not good.
>
>[The US has 18012.]
>
>--
>Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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