Re: [ICANN-EU] problems to cast vote

[Marc Schneiders <marc@venster.nl>]

On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Chris Eckert wrote:

> same problem with the english version at 23:45 mest:

Though I succeeded voting yesterday morning myself without any problem
(using Netscape 4.61 on FreeBSD, though the voting server runs Win2000 and
IIS :-), I am more than a bit mad, that ICANN is frustrating the election
again. First the pins that never arrived (I know one person in 'real' life
who applied and he did *not* get his so far, which makes it 50% in my
statistics), now an election system that doesn't work alright (there are
messages about it on several mailing lists).

It puts all those statements of ICANN on 'the stability of the internet'
in a rather bleak perspective. If they cannot do this right, what can they
do right? If they cannot pick the right company to outsource the voting,
how on earth will we trust them on choosing registries and registrars for
the new TLDs? How will they run? "Error 50001. We cannot now register the
domain you want. Bad luck. Stay up all night and keep trying. Tomorrow it
will be gone."

Hopefully they spend the $50,000 really on looking at the applications
also from a technical perspective. It would be nice if the new TLDs did go
off alright for a change. And the servers running the registrations for
those new TLDs will be bombarded a million times (or more) heavily than
this election.com machine. 


root@rootfix.org

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