[ncdnhc-discuss] INVOICES.

[Gendron, Michael (MIS)]

There should be a policy in place. I am continually telling my students that
Americans are spoiled - we get cheap broadband access.  I can understand my
students not being aware, but it concerns me that an organization such as
ICANN is insensitive to these issues.

Regards,  

Michael

Michael Gendron. Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Business
CCSU


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Barbara Simons [mailto:simons at acm.org] 
Sent:	Tuesday, January 29, 2002 11:08 AM
To:	Norbert Klein
Cc:	discuss at icann-ncc.org
Subject:	Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] INVOICES.

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

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