CA registration: when the 500#'s are gone, what can you do??

[Randy Rosenberg]

Here's the way I see it...

Come Jan 2nd, in excess of 500 people with be standing at the DMV counter in hundreds of different DMV offices across California, all talking to a DMV clerk about getting one of those covetted SB100 Sequence Numbers. The conversation is gonna go something like this:

Tax Payer: Good Morning, I'm here to acquire an SB100 Sequence Number, please.

DMV Clerk: Ok. Please excuse me while I call Sacramento for that.

About 20 minutes pass, and the DMV returns to the Tax Payer.

Tax Payer: Well? What's my Sequence Number?

DMV Clerk: Sorry sir, but every time I called the Sacramento SB100 Sequence Number GRAND POOBAH to get your Sequence Number, all I got was a busy signal. I tried dozens of times, and I just couldn't get through.

Tax Payer: Yikes! Can you please keep trying? I can only imagine that within the next few hours, all of those Sequence Numbers will be gone. Please help me. I'm desperate. I can't wait another year!

DMV Clerk: I appreciate your pain, but I'm only allowed to spend 20 minutes calling Sacramento for an SB100 Sequence Number. You'll have to make another appointment with us, in order for another DMV clerk to call the Sacramento SB100 Sequence Number GRAND POOBAH. Sorry, there's nothing more I can do today. Who's next in line?


Guys, this system of Sequential numbers being provided by someone in Sacramento won't scale to meet the "parallel processing" needs come 8am on Jan 2nd. It's gonna be like teenagers calling the radio station to be the 9th caller for free concert tickets - it's just a kcufing mess.

Good luck,
Randy R...