Hi Dave, Very good point but its a taboo at APNIC to discuss about Members fee and APNIC (mis) management of funds. APNIC maintains a white list and a black list of public contacts. You're now in their black list for raising this. Like many others, this discussion will end up in the no through road. The Executive council we selected are like the famous three wise monkeys."see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil". For our representatives business is as usual.
APNIC recently started providing training for law enforcement agencies using Members funds....we did not blessed either. Its a good initiative and I personally commend APNIC for this. However, these LEAs are government agencies and have big budgets. If LEAs request training APNIC must use LEAs budget to provide such trainings not Members funds. Its just not right! Regards Hanif H Mohd Senior Network Consultant PKSP, Pakistan On Saturday, 26 April 2014 at 5:44 PM, "Dave Mead" <[email protected]> wrote: Paul, Your speech at Asia Pacific Internet Leadership Program meeting is utterly disappointing to APNIC Members. http://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2014/icann-49-event-wrapup You said, "...Members pay fees to APNIC to support the organisation and the services and they don't give APNIC a blessing to spend that money in unlimited fashion on Internet development..." http://audio.icann.org/meetings/singapore2014/apilp-22mar14-en.mp3 Members DID NOT BLESS APNIC to spend the fees on business class travel which costs 3 times more than an economy class ticket. The entire senior management, including your Executve Assistant and those who work for APNIC as consultants travel in business class contributing to the success of the airlines but clearly not Internet development in this region. http://www.apnic.net/about-APNIC/team Paul, you're leading a not-for-profit organisation not a comerncial entity that you and your senior management can erode member funds for your comfortable travels across the world. This is just outrageous and mismanagement of Member funds. Members like to see the Executive Council takes note of this and truely represent the Members to better manage their funds to contribute for the Internet development in this region. A lot of development work can be done if the funds are managed effectively not use for personal benefits. Best -Dave Mead _______________________________________________ apnic-talk mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/apnic-talk
