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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The question is, assuming you were right, why did San Francisco get chosen at all?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Was there no other locations that had local hosts?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Adrian Kinderis</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> alan.greenberg@sympatico.ca [mailto:alan.greenberg@sympatico.ca] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alan Greenberg<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 25 January 2011 10:15 AM<br><b>To:</b> Adrian Kinderis<br><b>Cc:</b> Stéphane Van Gelder; council@gnso.icann.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [council] Sponsorship of the ICANN Meetings<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ok. My mistake. Alan<br><br>At 24/01/2011 05:45 PM, Adrian Kinderis wrote:<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That is not true Alan.<br><br>There have been a number of meetings where there have been no formal major local host.<br><br>Sydney springs to mind.<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>Adrian<br><br>Sent from my iPhone<br><br>On 25/01/2011, at 9:35, "Alan Greenberg" <<a href="mailto:alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca">alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca</a> > wrote:<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have no inside information, but the issue came up a while ago in At-Large, and it struck me then that this may be a result of this being (I think) the first meeting without a major local host, who previously was expected to provide significant resources.<br><br>Alan<br><br>At 24/01/2011 03:39 AM, Stéphane Van Gelder wrote:<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I see no reason why this could not be discussed here.<br><br>Is there anyone from Staff that can address Adrian's questions?<br><br>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?<br><br>Stéphane<br><br>Le 23 janv. 2011 à 09:49, Adrian Kinderis a écrit :<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Stephane,<br> <br>I am not sure of the correct forum to bring this up however I do so here…<br> <br>I havve been contacted by a number of my constituents regarding the severe raising of pricing of the sponsorship packages for the upcoming San Francisco meeting.<br> <br>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!<br> <br>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.<br> <br>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.<br> <br>Your thoughts would be appreciated.<br> <br>Regards,<br> <br> <br> <br><b>Adrian Kinderis</b><br><br> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>