Please get me off this list - please?
TNX!
At 09:43 PM 07/28/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>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 miracles, believe it or
not,
>to increase the ability of the system to respond - but we have limited budget
>and limited time - to say nothing of risking the possibility of eroding the
>integrity of the accumulated database with any significant changes to the
>current system. We HAVE been able to increase total intake, but the demand
>has more than matched every increase in capacity.
>
>No one knew, a priori, what the demand for voter registration would be, but
>the random rate control is not selective in any fashion. Also keep in mind
>that we also have to print and mail PIN numbers in time for them to arrive
>so they can be used to confirm registration and there is a time limit after
>which it is too risky to mail PINs and still meet the voting deadlines.
>
>These problems motivated our plan for a full review of the process after his
>first round of elections. Plainly scaling must be addressed among other
things.
>
>Please believe me, there is no deliberate attempt to color any outcome - only
>to try to keep the system functioning at some level of responsiveness.
>
>Vint Cerf
>
> At 12:31 PM 7/28/2000 -0400, Esther Dyson wrote:
>>At 10:47 AM 7/28/00 -0400, Curtis E. Sahakian wrote:
>> >
>> >Esther,
>> >
>> >My understanding is that ICANN, closes registeration for voter
>> >membership in ICANN after JULY 31.
>> >
>> >I have tried twice to register, Your server says: "We are
>> >sorry. The database is currently overloaded.
>> >Please try again when the system is less busy."
>> >
>> >ICANN is denying me the right to vote. What possible excuse can
>> >it have?
>> >
>> >This is not right. It reminds me of voter registration problems
>> >blacks used to have in the South until the U.S. goverment sent
>> >troops and federal marshals there.
>> >
>> >You should either get the ICANN staff behaving properly or
>> >accept personal responsibility for their actions and resign. As
>> >best I can tell from quotes in the press, you seem to be doing
>> >neither.
>> >
>> >Why is that?
>> >
>> >Curtis Sahakian
>> >847/676-2774
>> >
>
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