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<div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; "><div>Dear Kristina: </div><div>The benefit for participate like sponsor must be measured by who want to be sponsor, not by ICANN.</div><div>ICANN (or your financial manager) must measure and evaluate, the absense of sponsors. The situation is totally different and contrary. The rules of Economy are mandatories on that. Each one play their game.</div><div>On the other side and in the instance to somebody think, that ICANN must to have registration fees: Im totally against on that, because:</div><div>ICANN have a underlying principles, like participation and bottom up process, appart to be a" non profit organization". Where do you include this, when you decide to make that the people pay for participate?</div><div>Yes, I know (perhaps the response is) the people can participate remotely. But you & me know that is not the same.</div><div><div>ICANN model is good for me, if you make business with ICANN and have incomes for this businesses, and you want to have publicity within the meetings, so, you must pay for that. </div><div>Im not completely sure, but Is not mandatory to be sponsor. Am I wrong? </div><div>If you, like a Internet Industry company, want to make your product or service be visible, have no much more options. publicity, and pay to be sponsor. How Much ? The company decide if it appropriate or not. </div><div>That means: free market. ICANN fix the price to be sponsor, and the candidate to be sponsor must decide if will be or not. </div><div>After that, there are many other considerations to do, but I think this is the essential. </div><div>From my humble point of view .</div></div></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; ">Carlos Dionisio Aguirre</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; ">NCA GNSO Council - ICANN<br>former ALAC member by LACRALO</div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; ">Abogado - Especialista en Derecho de los Negocios</div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; ">Sarmiento 71 - 4to. 18 Cordoba - Argentina -<br>*54-351-424-2123 / 423-5423<br><a href="http://ar.ageiadensi.org" target="_blank">http://ar.ageiadensi.org</a> <br></div><br><br><br><br><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder" style="font-family: Tahoma; "></div><hr id="stopSpelling" style="font-family: Tahoma; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma">From: krosette@cov.com</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma">To: council@gnso.icann.org</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma">Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:50:34 -0500</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma">Subject: RE: [council] Sponsorship of the ICANN Meetings</font><br><br>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left" style="font-family: Tahoma; "><span class="ecx756294514-24012011"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">It seems to me that if we're going to be talking about
sponsorship, we should also be talking about whether it's time for ICANN to
start charging a registration fee to attend the meetings. I was dumbstruck
when I attended my first ICANN meeting and found out that there's no charge to
attend. Every other meeting I attend has a registration fee and some are
quite high ($750+). </font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left" style="font-family: Tahoma; "><span class="ecx756294514-24012011"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Let me be clear: I'm NOT suggesting that ICANN should
start charging a registration fee so that the meetings are revenue
generators. I do think, though, that it's time to examine whether the
costs of the meetings are high enough so that it makes sense to charge some fee
that can be used to offset those costs. In addition, the more ICANN can
recover through registration fees, the less money it needs from sponsors.
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<div dir="ltr" align="left" style="font-family: Tahoma; "><span class="ecx756294514-24012011"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">As to the sponsorship fee, the prices and "benefits" are at
the point where there's an optics issue, IMHO.</font></span></div>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> owner-council@gnso.icann.org
[mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stéphane Van
Gelder<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 24, 2011 3:40 AM<br><b>To:</b> Adrian
Kinderis<br><b>Cc:</b> council@gnso.icann.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [council]
Sponsorship of the ICANN Meetings<br></font><br></div>
<div></div>I see no reason why this could not be discussed here.
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<div>Is there anyone from Staff that can address Adrian's questions?</div>
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<div>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?</div>
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<div>Stéphane<br><br>
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<div>Le 23 janv. 2011 à 09:49, Adrian Kinderis a écrit :</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline">
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<div style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Stephane,</div>
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<div style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">I
am not sure of the correct forum to bring this up however I do so
here…</div>
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<div style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">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.</div>
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<div style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">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!</div>
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<div style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">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.</div>
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<div style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">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.</div>
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<div style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Your
thoughts would be appreciated.</div>
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<div style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Regards,</div>
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<div style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-AU">Adrian Kinderis</span></b><span lang="EN-AU"><br><br></span></div>
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