[ncdnhc-discuss] INVOICES.

[Gendron, Michael (MIS)]

So what do we do about this? It really disenfranchises those without high
bandwidth connections.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Williams [mailto:jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:42 PM
To: Gendron, Michael (MIS)
Cc: discuss at icann-ncc.org; icann board address; Don Evans; Nancy J.
Victory; Karen Rose
Subject: Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] INVOICES.


Michael and all,

  The ICANN BoD and staff have been told, requested, and suggested
time and time again to use formats for documents that are broadly used,
such as HTML or .TXT.  Yet constantly they refuse or as you say, are
insensitive and continue to display that attitude such as this situation
again demonstrates.

Gendron, Michael (MIS) wrote:

> 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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