Re: [ga] Service Degradation in IANA Public WHOIS Services for Top Level Domains

[jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Danny and all,

  Read allot like a "Canned Response" that is mostly
an excuse for messing up instead of appologizing and
actually fixing Whois.  Sorry but I am not buying it,
and this announcment/notice hardly corrects the huge
lack in openness and Transparency in ICANN.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Mar 27, 2008 9:13 AM
>To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [ga] Service Degradation in IANA Public WHOIS Services for Top Level 
>Domains
>
>
>Service Degradation in IANA Public WHOIS Services for
>Top Level Domains
>26 March 2008
>http://iana.org/reports/2008/whois-issues.html
>
>"ICANN, in managing the IANA function, provides WHOIS
>services for informational purposes to the public.
>This service is not used in management or updating of
>the root zone data, and does not affect its accuracy.
>It is an additional and separate service to the
>authoritative root zone data.
>
>Between 20 February and 14 March 2008, information in
>IANA's public WHOIS services for top level domains was
>not properly updated. That caused some of the
>nameserver information to be different from the
>authoritative information in the root zone. The
>accuracy of the root zone data was unaffected. The
>problem was identified and repaired and all services
>have been correct and operational since 15 March 2008.
>
>Staff has thoroughly reviewed this issue and while
>there were several contributing factors, the main
>cause was a software failure in a new system deployed
>on 20 February. Process changes are being implemented
>to ensure that this problem is not repeated in the
>future.
>
>As noted above, there was no impact on root zone
>information and the operational impact on the service
>affected was minimal. 
>
>ICANN’s mission is to provide accurate information and
>operate to the maximum extent feasible in an open and
>transparent manner, so ICANN has published this notice
>for public attention."
>
>
>
>      
Regards,

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