[council] Sponsorship of the ICANN Meetings

[Stéphane Van Gelder]

I see no reason why this could not be discussed here.

Is there anyone from Staff that can address Adrian's questions?

As far as the Council taking a position on this, what do others think? Is there a desire to work on drafting a letter on this topic?

Stéphane

Le 23 janv. 2011 à 09:49, Adrian Kinderis a écrit :

> Stephane,
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> I am not sure of the correct forum to bring this up however I do so here…
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> I have been contacted by a number of my constituents regarding the severe raising of pricing of the sponsorship packages for the upcoming San Francisco meeting.
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> In most cases prices within the different levels of sponsorship packages have doubled and it seem that ICANN is trying to secure a few sponsors at $500,000. This seems, to me at least, just plain crazy!
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> My organization has sponsored on a number of occasions and are potentially again this time. However I am concerned of these changes and the impact they may have.
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> The reason I bring it up in this forum is because I wonder if this is something the Council could take a position of. We all benefit from a healthy participation of sponsors. Without them the meetings would not exist. However, I believe ICANN is being just plain greedy and this could potentially harm future meetings.
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> Your thoughts would be appreciated.
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> Regards,
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> Adrian Kinderis
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