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MISTICA: RE: ICANN

From: Michel J. Menou ([email protected])
Date: Thu Aug 03 2000 - 15:43:39 AST

Mandando un mensaje de Vint Cerf en la lista ISTF lo cual explica los
problemas de registracion.
Proximo paso, ICANN lamentara que devido al facto que ha muchos internautas
no es posible hacer eleciones.
Mas adelante, el Internet esta privatizado e comprado por un consorcio de
grandes empresas "multinacionales". Fin del processo por consequencia de
las compras entre miembros del consorcio, Internet fica en las manos de BBC
Inc. (Big Brother Comanda) la unica compania del sector en 2068.
68 ....!

Michel

>Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 07:22:56 -0400
>From: "vinton g. cerf" <[email protected]>
>Subject: RE: Launch of the Civil Society Internet Forum (CSIF)
>
>Mike,
>
>the problem of registration for the at-large voting was massive
>scale of registration. All the initial indications were for fairly
>modest interest levels and in fact until "national" registration
>drives started, the rate of registration was such that an estimate
>of 10-15,000 registrations was reasonable. As the registration deadline
>drew nearer, registrations drives were mounted on a national basis
>in Japan, China and Germany and perhaps elsewhere. The registration
>rate skyrocketed well beyond the ability of the online system to
>accommodate. To make it possible for any registrations to complete
>the rate of registration was artificially limited to something like
>200 per hour (that is 4800 per day) in the last few days of registration.
>Still the total raw registration count was on the order of 145,000
>the last I heard.
>
>These registrations have to be processed - first to remove
>duplicates, second to prepare for postal mailings of PIN numbers and
>that takes staff time. The process has real costs that must be
>paid for so that means it has to fit in the overall ICANN budget.
>And the process has to fit into the deadlines set for voting -
>including the mailing of PINS by snail mail.
>
>One can debate the choices (some folks have suggested trying to
>find an alternative to snail mail - one of the reasons for choosing
>to use that as part of the process, it establishes that the registrant
>has a real postal address where the registrant can be reached - a
>weak but reasonable way of establishing that the registrant is not
>an electronic phantom). This aspect of registration is something like
>the way in which ATM cards and their PINS are issued separately -
>to prevent fraud. ).
>
>I don't think anyone is very satisfied with the mechanics of
>registration and certainly not with the inability of the system
>to keep up with the unexpected demand. There is an extensive
>study planned of this process, post-election, to assess its
>strengths and weaknesses, to evaluate alternatives, and to make
>recommendations for the next year.
>
>I would emphasize two things:
>
>1. ICANN is a non-profit company charged with managing domain names and
> IP address space allocation. It is not a global government nor should
its
> charter be extended in that direction.
>
>2. It has apparently been tempting to some people to turn the election of
> board members into a kind of global plebescite -
> the costs of such scale seem incommensurate with ICANN's ability to
> generate income - indeed the latter is a major issue to be fully
resolved
> since the ICANN income is supposed to come from its constituencies: the
> Protocol Support Organization, the Address Support Organizationa and the
> Names Support Organization. It is still an open question whether the
> At-Large constituency can or should provide income - but if a
significant
> cost of operation at ICANN proves to be managing global At-Large
> elections,
> attention must be paid to the method by which the costs can be met.
>
>Finally, such elections may risk various kinds of fraud and I assume it is
>important to the At-Large electorate that sensible and effective measures
>are taken to minimize that risk. There are other political concerns such
>as "capture" by one at-large constituency or another by exploiting some
>weakness in the registration and election process - all of which have to
>be taken into account in designing and implementing the process.
>
>In my opinion, having listened to the practical details of trying to cope
>with this avalanche of registrants, the ICANN staff has done as much as is
>humanly possible within the budget and time limitations set out at the
>beginning of the process. Enormous and successful efforts were made to
>increase the rate at which registrations could be accepted, but the demand
>continued to exceed capacity even after the system's intake was increased
>by a factor of ten near the end of the cycle.
>
>Vint Cerf
>
>
>At 12:52 AM 8/2/2000 -0400, Michael Burks wrote:
> >I would think the first thing to promote a democratic election would be to
> >see that all people who wanted to join as an at large member could do so.
> >
> >I tried repeatedly to join as an at large member and was refused by the web
> >site because it was "too busy". I will have a tough time believing that
all
> >the people who wanted to join could. I think you should address this issue
> >first.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >
> >Mike Burks

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