Re: [apnic-talk] [apnic-announce] the unexpected service outage at APNIC, 20-21 June.

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Chris and all,

Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:43:43AM -0700, Jeff Williams wrote:
>
> >   I don't understand why it took a full 21 hours to correct this
> > disk drive problem.  Had you had a hot backup drive the outage
> > should have hardly even been noticed.  As APNIC now is contracted
> > with ICANN this situation does not lead me to have confidence in
> > APNIC's and especially ICANN's technical expertise, which is
> > supposed to be ICANN's primary responsibility....
>
> Maybe ICANN mandates this level of management :)

  I hope you are not correct in your evaluation here!  :(

>
>
> I have to wonder, from recent dealings with APNIC whether or they are
> overworked. Queries that a usually quite quick seem to take much
> longer than they once used to.

  I have also noticed this as well.  I have also heard this concern
from a number of others as well.  However given ICANN's recent
budget there should be enough $$ to hire the necessary personal,
as well as for training to address this possibly problem if the ICANN
BoD will reduce their suggested salaries a bit...

>
>
>   --cw

Regards,

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