Mr. Pena’s response to our open letters

I just got a hold of Mr. Pena’s response to our 2 open letters.

I must say, I’m a bit disappointed that Mr. Pena is now trying to distance himself from his CICT guidelines. Obviously it’s become quite a mess and I guess he doesn’t want to be associated with this mess. My brother JJ does a good job here of explaining how the Guidelines are Mr. Pena’s creation, and that he shouldn’t try to duck responsibility for the Guidelines.

What I instead want to point out is Mar Roxas statement last week about the CICT not being accountable:

I’ll quote:

“What kind of an animal is CICT? It’s not accountable for the e-government fund. So it was a basic management decision to re-align the [P1 Billion Peso] fund back to the government agencies.”

Mr. Pena, don’t you think this would be a good opportunity to show Mr. Roxas that you’re willing to be accountable for your actions? No one expects you to be perfect. We’ve pointed out the serious outages on EDU.PH and GOV.PH servers. Shouldn’t you ask your System Administrators to explain what is going on? We would be more than happy to work with you to resolve these problems, and to suggest ways to fix these problems. After all, the Gov.PH system is your repsonsibility, and it does affect all of us!

And since you seem to be under the impression that either the Gov.ph or Edu.ph registries are technically capable of taking over DotPH’s responsibilities, isn’t it time that you re-examine your reasons for wanting to shut down DotPH? What is the point in Government running the PH Domain if it is just going to result in the kinds of massive outages we seen with edu.ph and gov.ph?

Perhaps, at last, you can just ask your Domain Advisory Board to come up with a list of problems that they’ve seen with DotPH? (Surely they must see some problems with our operation, or else they would not ask you to shut us down!) Then we can all talk about ways to fix these problems in a cooperative problem-solving fashion, and hopefully we can all move on with our lives.

I sincerely hope you think about this carefully.