[NCUC-DISCUSS] Resigning from representing the Open Institute in NCUC

[Norbert Klein]

Dear Friends at NCUC,

thanks for the diverse responses to my [NCUC-DISCUSS] mail “Resigning 
from representing the Open Institute in NCUC.”

I had not decided to do this lightly. But the kind suggestion: “can you 
do two more years to make it TWENTY years :-) ” touches directly on the 
reason why I resigned. I had written that I am “retired far away in the 
countryside. Between some hills, there is only a not so stable access to 
the Internet.”

Internet transmission towers are flocking to the places where they hope 
to get many users – even there may be up to five transmitters in a small 
market town, where different ISPs try to lure away users from their 
competitors. Had one of them also built a repeater on one of the hills 
here, in the officially designed "Phnom Voar Natural Tourism Region," I 
would not have to spend hours and hours at the computer, just to very 
slowly download e-mails and sending some out.

It is therefore that I ask – with real regrets – to take my address off 
the list of [NCUC-DISCUSS]. Whoever wants to write to me directly is of 
course welcome.

Norbert Klein
Cambodia

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Ncuc-discuss im Auftrag von Norbert Klein
> Gesendet: Sa 04.02.2017 06:45
> An: ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org
> Betreff: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Resigning from representing the Open Institute in NCUC
>   
> Dear Friends in the NCUC Fellowship,
>
> My first participation was in the Santiago de Chile meeting, 24-26
> August 1999. I just happened to be in Germany for personal reasons
> around that time, and so the additional air fare from Germany to Chile
> was cheaper than if I had to pay from Cambodia to Chile. An Internet
> veteran from another country in Asia who knew about my work in Cambodia
> helped to pay the hotel costs in Chile. - I had established the first
> Internet access from Cambodia via UUCP, using expensive international
> telephone dial-up, establishing and operating for some years the ccTLD
> for the country: .kh for "Khmer", then, organizing with international
> and Cambodian friends to define the Khmer script for Unicode. And such
> work continued after Santiago de Chile, getting the Khmer script
> accepted in Unicode, helping to get a team with competent leadership
> working on creating Cambodian language software - Open Source, including
> Linux - with applications for text, e-mail, Web etc. All this when I was
> on the staff of the Open Forum, later the Open Institute of Cambodia,
> which is also the basis for our NCUC membership.
>
> If I remember correctly, Santiago was also one of the first meetings of
> the beginning of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency within ICANN. We
> did not use so much acronyms like "NCUC" - the full name signaled what
> we were standing for: a constituency which did not consider commercial
> values a top priority in the development of the Internet. And it was a
> stepping stone towards the UDRP...
>
> I am happy to have been part of this history - as member, then in the
> NCUC executive committee, later sent to represent our voice in the GNSO,
> and finally for two years in the ICANN Nomination Committee.
>
> Time is running - I am no longer in the capital city of Phnom Penh, but
> old and - actively - retired far away in the countryside. Between some
> hills, there is only a not so stable access to the Internet - "The
> Internet is for everyone?" well, not - and not only because of financial
> or technical restrictions.
>
> With this mail I want to announce my resignation from representing the
> Open Institute of Cambodia in the Non-Commercial Users Constituency - I
> have the agreement of Open Institute leadership; there is nobody who
> will take over from me.
>
> Thanks for all the good cooperation in the past - the struggles for
> clarity and acceptance, and the commitment to our goals, even when
> things were going into directions we did not want to identify with.
>
> Anybody visiting Cambodia? You are welcome - let me know.
>
> Norbert Klein
> nhklein at gmx.net
> Kep / Cambodia
>
>
>
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