[chapter-delegates] FYI - in the coming discussion of the WGIG questionnaire

[Irwan Effendi]

I  strongly disagree if anyone says that the UN is uninterested
"financially". They are running on deficit, we know that several nation has
not been paying their membership dues for quite sometime, and this has put
the UN book in the red for several million USD, the exact number is hard to
determine due to the fact that many numbers are kept in secret.
Thus, controlling DNS will give them a whole fresh income to blow over some
more projects with overpaid and underworked staff. For instance, do you know
that UN team leaders working in East Timor earns as much as USD 15000 per
month? compare that to the average local salary of USD 100 per month, you
got the picture.
and no, this is not a hearsay. I have been there, I have worked alongside
them, and I have seen their paycheck, in fact I was typing several budget
requests in relation to their work.

Capability and Performance ?
They are 8 to 5 people, every weekend they will be somewhere in Thailand,
Malaysia or some other nearby tourist site. Their deliver the same quality
of work with those who work in the US for USD 3000 per month

Sincerity ?
let's jut put it this way, how often did you heard that people apply to work
for the UN because they worry about what happen in the world ? or because
they want to work toward world peace ? and how often you heard that people
apply because the pay is high and they get to travel around?

of course, this is not to say that there are no good souls there, because
indeed, there must be several. But bottom line is, I wouldn't trust them to
take care of my ISP, let alone DNS

Regards,

Irwan Effendi

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Baker" <fred at cisco.com>
To: "Veni Markovski" <veni at veni.com>
Cc: <chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org>; <memberpubpol at elists.isoc.org>;
<patrick at isoc.lu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [chapter-delegates] FYI - in the coming discussion of the WGIG
questionnaire


>
> On Jun 6, 2005, at 6:47 PM, Veni Markovski wrote:
> > In fact, considering this issue, the only non-interested parties will
> > be the UN and the ITU.
>
> An interesting viewpoint. ITU is on the verge of bankruptcy, or so I'm
> told, and has to become a power in the Internet to maintain its own
> solvency. However, it has not demonstrated competence on the topic, and
> is as a result not trusted by the technical community. If they do gain
> control of the DNS root, sudenly they have what amounts to a license to
> print money.
>
> ITU is not "interested" in a financial sense?
>
> The UN may not be "interested" financially, but it certainly is
> "interested" from a power perspective.
>