[UA-discuss] CIOs Wanted

[Jeff Sass]

Just a thought… but if there are influential CIO's (or CIO's of companies with
known acceptance issues) that can be identified who will be at CES, why not
reach out and offer them complimentary attendance to NamesCon? Even without a
specific agenda item on acceptance, exposure to NamesCon will give a strong
impression as to the vibrancy of the domain name ecosystem and the growing
interest in domains of all shapes and sizes (from IDNs to cctlds, to the new
extensions…).
Just a thought…
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On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:21 AM, Jothan Frakes < jothan at jothan.com > wrote:
Hi Don-
For NamesCon this year some form of sessions for CIO's to help understand new
TLDs are already baked in to the agenda, and I one of the primary focuses we
have is to spread awareness of domain names, new and old. We'll have over 1000
people there so we're not hurting for attendees, but having some CIOs be able to
get exposure to Awareness/Acceptance is a shared goal.

To hold something specifically for ICANN to speak on UA would be gratis because
I already have the space, subject to availability within the current schedule.
Akram is on the agenda to speak, which I think would be good for executive peers
within the C-Suite seeing Executive participation by ICANN. If we did a specific
session to help educate on Acceptance I have some ideas I will sent in PM
(however if there were costs like catering food beverage for a lunch or
something like that it would require a sponsor to cover those costs), as the
co-founder I can do that, but if there were catering costs we would need to pass
those through.

This year the Consumer Electronics Show ends on 1/8 and NamesCon (NC16) begins
1/10. We will not have the show back to back with CES in future years, so
perhaps CES itself is one to focus on in 2017, but UA discussion will always be
welcome at NC17. https://www.cesweb.org/ exhibitor has all the information you would want for exhibitors or other participation.
We will have many UA (Acceptance and Awareness) sessions at NamesCon next month
also: http://www.namescon.vegas/ and I suspect many from this list will be there as well.

-Jothan
Jothan Frakes
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On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:28 AM, Don Hollander < don.hollander at icann.org > wrote:
Jothan,
Very interesting ideas.
Regrettably, in my opinion, we are not quite ready with good documentation to
use to address CIOs.
But something for the Community Outreach group to think about for next year.
As we’re putting together a budget for the next financial year now, any ideas on
costs?
Don

On 11/12/2015, at 2:47 PM, Jothan Frakes < jothan at jothan.com > wrote:
Don,
I am going to throw this out there as an idea about a great way to positively
impact the UA (A= Acceptance/Awareness) with the authentic realization that it
will be both stillborn and read as sarcasm.

Just before NamesCon in January in Las Vegas is this little show called CES -
that pulls in nearly 180,000 people - with CIOs abounding. IF ICANN spent a
teensy weensy fraction of the interest on the nTLD auction proceeds, say, for
example, they could get space that week and announce and hold summits or
workshops - and having a fairly solid presence during that event that might
attract those CIOs to have the right conversations if aligned with some
announcements and marketing.
I am partially being sarcastic because I have a suspicion that this would be a
challenge to get approval for in such a short span of time, not to mention that
it is unlikely reasonably accomplished given the many coordination and messaging
steps that would have to happen to execute on this effectively so that it would
be a wise spend.
That said, I really wonder how many folks on this list saw what I wrote and
said, 'OMG did he really say that... but WOW, You know, that is EXACTLY the type
of action we need to see', and then spent a moment envisioning such an
expenditure of resources or time, realized the likelihood was minimal, and in a
crestfallen manner resumed to look at mild volunteering efforts again. The volunteering by so many in the community towards helping improve the
situation is impressive, and appreciated, and my note is really more one to
suggest that the path forward needs a bit of oomph so that CIOs will engage on
this topic. Or as I playfully say, we need something to get king 'Enry to peek
up over the mutton leg they're gnawing.
I was encouraged slightly by talk of a UA hack-a-thon for example, that's
creative. CES instead of the Marrakech meeting would be a place to hold
something like that. Or even NamesCon. Bring it.
Appreciating that approval for the budget to do something big at CES is not
likely, instead I'd gladly make space available during the show for a UA
(Acceptance) Hack-A-Thon. And we could all collectively invite CIOs to NamesCon
on UA (Awareness) to learn about the new naming options. They just stay a couple
extra days in Las Vegas. Not a hard sell. UA (awareness) is one of the core
principles of NamesCon already.
Any takers?
-Jothan
Jothan Frakes
Tel: +1.206-355-0230


On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Don Hollander < don.hollander at icann.org > wrote:
As we move forward on the completion of our documentation, we’re looking for
some community CIO’s to provide guidance about what should be in and what
shouldn’t be in a CIO Guidebook.

Our plan is to have a focus group of people that we know very well and who
understand the issue but have the role of CIO or senior IT staff and can look at
the documentation from that perspective.

And after that, we will have a focus group of CIO’s from outside the industry
who will be able to critique the result.

So, if you’re a CIO, or know a CIO, and would be willing to read the existing
documentation and provide feedback, would you please let me know.

We’d like to try to do this through e-mail but we can organise a call if that
will be useful.

Thanks.

Don
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