<p dir="ltr">Mike I will own that. It does sound negative. The pace will be what the pace is.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 11, 2015 11:09 PM, "Mike Silber" <<a href="mailto:mike.silber@icann.org">mike.silber@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Jothan<br>
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> On 11 Dec 2015, at 09:47, Jothan Frakes <<a href="mailto:jothan@jothan.com">jothan@jothan.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> 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.<br>
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Now who is being negative?<br>
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> 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<br>
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The auction proceeds are ring-fenced until the community process has moved forward. So I would rather suggest that you ignore the source of funding and focus on the objective, the cost and the result.<br>
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However I think the idea of CES is very interesting ... and I am sure there are other and similar events that could also be useful.<br>
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Could I suggest that we work on identifying the message we want to get out, the audience for that message and options for delivering the message to the audience: we can then push this through the relevant processes to get budget.<br>
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(BTW - I think CES is a good idea, but not appropriate because we are not prepared. I have no idea of levels of participation or cost - so please do not consider this a formal endorsement.)<br>
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Mike</blockquote></div>