[ncdnhc-discuss] INVOICES.

[Barbara Simons]

I agree with Norman that ICANN should not have sent a
3 MB file to anyone, but especially not to people living in
countries with flakey phone lines and high dial-up fees.

Would it be possible for the NCDNHC to make an official
request of ICANN that it establish a policy to guarantee that
this mistake will not be repeated.  As I said in an earlier note,
the person making the mailing did not realize what he had done
until I complained.  But there should be some policy in place
that prohibits mass mailings of huge files from ICANN headquarters
unless there is some extraordinary reason for doing so.
And at a minimum the person making the mailings should realize
what he or she is doing.

Regards,
Barbara

Norbert Klein wrote:

> Thanks for bringing some more light into the mystery.
>
> We talk a lot in ICANN etc. about the fact that there are people in this world
> who do not have broadband access, and some of them (especially in countries
> where the Internet is in the early stages of development) have to pay high
> dial-up fees. A recent ITU report said that Cambodia has the highest
> communication fees in the region.
>
> And then ICANN sends out a 3 MB file for billing - this should never be done
> again, if it really happened.
>
> For whatever reason, I did not get it.
>
> Now I went to see what is on
> http://www.ncdnhc.org/docs/membership-fee/2001-list.html
>
> Open Forum of Cambodia $25 paid (in Marina del Rey) and a difference of $25
> against the invoice (which I never got). I paid $25 assuming that this was the
> amount required from the Open Forum of Cambodia, a very small organization.
>
> I never even got a receipt for the $25 actually in cash - but I am now happy to
> see that they were booked.
>
> Something is VERY WRONG in the way this matter is handled (I say so without
> blaming anybody specifically - except for sending 3 MB files) - if we are on
> the one hand faced with the question of losing our voting rights because NCDNHC
> is not paying, and on the other we have people clamoring to get billed and to
> get information where and how to send money.
>
> Any comments or suggestions?
>
> Norbert Klein
> Open Forum of Cambodia
> Phnom Penh/Cambodia