This phased concerned itself with the contracting of and setup of the system that will be used for the event.
This was scheduled to be 90% complete by March 1, and 95% complete by April 1.
Actual dates are as follows:
The target system was made available to us after three weeks of delays by the subcontract on March 2. It was 90% configured by March 9, 2001.
The 95% mark was completed on schedule, by April 1, with web servers, database servers, domain name servers, and email servers setup and configured.
On April 24, the subcontracted informed us that they would like to change the IP address1.. This would result in improved connectivity and performance to us.
The subcontractor provided us with adequate notice of the change and our choice of transition times. The transfer (which involved movement of a physical cable) was done at 10am on April 26. The new IP address is in use now, but it is believed that may still be one or two glitches with mapping of IP address to virtual web server -- this may have resulted in the wrong web page appearing at the wrong URL during the period of April 26 through May 1. This is still under investigation.
We do not expect any additional changes to IP addresses, not would we be accept any changes from this subcontractor.