Re: [ga] Re: [announce] NC telecon 16 August 2001 - agenda

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Chuck and all assembly members,

  That is how I understand it as well.  I seems that presently the
DNSO "Fund" account has all of $16.00 in the account at last
reference.  Given the TYPE of account it is, it is not likely to grow
much past that level...

Gomes, Chuck wrote:

> Roland,
>
> ICANN does not fund the DNSO.  The DNSO is self-funding.
>
> Chuck Gomes
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roeland Meyer [mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 10:07 AM
> To: 'k@widgital.com'; DNSO Secretariat
> Cc: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: RE: [ga] Re: [announce] NC telecon 16 August 2001 - agenda
>
> > From: k@widgital.com [mailto:k@widgital.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 7:54 AM
>
> > <snip>
> >
> > >   3. The NC will not be webcast due to budget constraints.
> > <snip>
> >
> > Another year goes by with millions of people video
> > conferencing and not one
> > DNSO meeting can.  Makes one wonder what "budget constraints"
> > really refers to.
>
> It's corporate-speak for "we don't want to spend the money." Note that, it
> is a far cry from "we don't have the money to spend" (maybe true, for DNSO).
>
> > Could someone please send a book of commonly misused
> > words and word
> > combinations by the DNSO and ICANN to explain what words like "budget
> > constraints" mean according to their definition.
>
> Since DNSO funding comes from ICANN, DNSO doesn't have it, but ICANN does.
>
> > According to all the dictionaries I have checked out it means the DNSO can
> not
> > afford video conferencing which we all know is a bunch of bologna.
> >
> > :)
>
> Since video conferncing is one of those things where costs scale up with
> service, there may be an issue here. But, ICANN doesn't have to pay union
> scale, so what's the problem? Any video is better than no video.
>
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