>Is this such a case? I have no idea -- I haven't audited their staff,
>their plans, or their budget. Planning for a million users is
>*expensive*, especially in a case like this where there's a significant
>amount of manual processing. ICANN doesn't have an unlimited budget;
Sure, a million users is nothing to sneeze at. I think part of the
problem here is the notion that the decision to support 10,000
users wasn't ever made public - perhaps it was and I just missed
it although that seems unlikely - but, I'm utterly convinced it
that hard limit was made public people woild have freaked out
and severely questioned and warned about such a small number.
At the end of the day, planning for 10,000 anf getting 143,000
gets you in trouble. Planning for a million and getting 143,000
doesn't.
As for the money, Becky Burr/NTIC/DoC has stated in open fora
that if it came right down to it and ICANN couldn't afford
to do what it was doing, DoC would not let it fail because
of money. I have no reason to believe she was lying.
Alternatives are always an option. If people were asekd "do
you want only the first 10,000 to be able to vote or
do you mind if we ask you to send a self addresses stamped
envelope or a doller or two if you're outside the US" my
off the wall guess is people would pick the latter.
>To me, the real question that needs to be answered is whether or not
>the registration woes are sufficiently bad and have excluded a
>sufficient number of people as to warrant postponing the election.
>That's a serious step, and would mean, among other things, that the
>interim board would continue longer.
That's not the end of the world. It seems to all boild to "do you
want it done on schedule and improperly or late and properly". My
take on this is there is consensus for the latter, not the former;
do we actually have that decsion to make?
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