Re: [icann-eu] Re: 10.000 PIN codes found....

["Griffini Giorgio" <grunz@tin.it>]

Mike Roberts wrote:
> 
> 
> This is certainly not the case.  The voting having been completed, 
> and the grant funding for the project having been exhausted, there is 
> now one part time consultant who is providing limited administrative 
> support to maintain the data base and to respond to inquiries and to 
> support the needs of the At Large study group when it is formed.
> 
> [..Omissis...]
> 
> The number of returned letters is about 10% of the total who 
> registered but did not activate their membership.  Of the remaining 
> 90%, or approx 70,000 persons, we have no way of knowing how many may 
> not have gotten their letters but the postal services did not return 
> them to us.  I believe this is called putting them into "dead letter" 
> boxes.
> 

By choosing to not allow for late registrations ICANN is missing important 
parameters about the At large process..., that is, how many PIN actually 
reached the intended target and how much time it takes to obtain such 
figures. 
Knowing these values would allow for better setup of the time schedule for 
delivering mail out to members (and one can even fine-tune respect to 
different mail system speed into each region)  
Please note that allowing for late registrations doesn't rise the budget for the 
process (postage and handling fees has already being paid), one have just to 
wait ... because there is no hurry for a endorsement or vote and the part time 
consultant ( or whoever else) can handle late registrations in batches at a 
smoother and reasonable pace. 
Told so, I hope none at ICANN would like to say that the snail mail way is 
wrong because it leads to a more than 50% unverified applications...the true 
is that this failure rate has not being measured (or reasonably tried to) and 
the only certain figures to tag as 'failure' are those of returned PIN mail ( 7% 
of the whole registered membership)

Best regards 
Giorgio Griffini