On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 8:54 AM Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Ekr,
On 2020-07-28 15:54, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 6:45 AM Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ekr,
>>
>> On 2020-07-28 13:54, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 4:43 AM Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> > The point being that these bespoke tools have a cost, not just in
>> units
>> >> of
>> >> > dollars, but also in choice, reliability, etc. We should think hard
>> >> about
>> >> > what is so essential in our DNA that it merits all the costs.
>> >>
>> >> And base decisions and engineering on real data, instead of guesswork.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I have no special insight in what is happening, but I would make two
>> points:
>> >
>> > 1. A number of people are experiencing authorization failures (as Richard
>> > reports)
>>
>> Yes, and all of them boil down to one issue: These are people who have
>> multiple registrations (hackathon, remote) where they have used different
>> email addresses for the different registrations, and there has been a
>> difficulty connecting up the registration with the required 'remote'
>> reg_type
>> for WG/RG session participation with the datatracker login.
>>
>
> Well, as I said, I have no special insight into what's going on here, but
> why are these issues intermittent? For instance, it was failing for me
> yesterday but works today, even though my configuration has not changed.
Without more information and looking into what happened, I can of course
not say why.
FWIW, I just saw a transient failure. I have reported it as:
-Ekr
