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<font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">David A. Olive<br>
Vice President, Policy Development Support<br>
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)<br>
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</div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:12pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Stéphane van Gelder <<a href="mailto:stephane.vangelder@indom.com">stephane.vangelder@indom.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:15:48 -0800<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Adrian Kinderis <<a href="mailto:adrian@ausregistry.com.au">adrian@ausregistry.com.au</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> GNSO Council List <<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">council@gnso.icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [council] Sponsorship... again<br></div><div><br></div><div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Could someone from Staff provide Adrian with an answer please?</div><div><br></div><div>Stéphane<br><br>Envoyé de mon iPhone4</div><div><br>Le 17 févr. 2011 à 06:16, Adrian Kinderis <<a href="mailto:adrian@ausregistry.com.au">adrian@ausregistry.com.au</a>> a écrit :<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Just an update as I have raised this issue on this list a number of times.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have sent numerous emails questioning the sponsorship packages for ICANN San Francisco.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">We are now three weeks from ICANN San Francisco and I have not had any answer from ICANN staff at all. All I have been told is that is has been escalated to Nick Tomaso.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I don’t think I am asking too much in requesting some answers here. I think it is just plain rude to be ignored (you can tell I don’t like it right?). <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I guess they have achieved their objective by not responding. We are now a sponsor at the inflated rate. We found some budget by firing a staff member and not supplying cookies in the staff kitchen. I hope some fellowship folks benefit from their trip to the beautiful city of San Francisco that we are supporting…<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I look forward to reading how much revenue sponsorship brought in for this meeting and what the rates will be for Jordan.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Just remember, I support ICANN and I support newTLDs.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU">Adrian Kinderis</span></b><span lang="EN-AU"><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></span></body></html>