<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div>The internet is supposed to make it easier for businesses and business people to connect and get things done faster, like, for example, recruiting business people, but ironically internet governance connected groups spend most of their time physically traveling to places to get mostly nothing done, and say "more work needs to be done". <br /><br />Anybody remember NamesCon 2008? Me niether. There hasn't ever been a Conference that the whole world benefitted from, because conferences in the internet age are not meant for progress, conferences are just excuses for people to travel, to see and be seen, to party, in my opinion, and in my opinion proven by the fact that the internet's supposed and oft-mentioned purpose is to facilitate the entire business process, making the decision making/meeting process at conferences obsolete, unnecessary in a business sense, and also
laughable, when some business people who could easily talk and compare business notes any time of day via the internet say, "Let's wait for the conference to decide on that." Why? <br /><br />So Travelers can say they are leaders who physically traveled to meet and talk with relevant business people, when I am as much of a leader writing this single critique via email as they are traveling to vegas to walk around and say, "ooh, that's interesting" 1000 times. While it might be fun to do, the internet community is waiting for real tangible progress and real solutions to real world problems and all the tech community has provided them in the past 12 months is an IWatch. I would argue that the "constant conference culture" limits real progress by getting people stuck in a never ending travel loop, where all they begin to care about is the quality of the next travel destination. <br /><br />Ron</div></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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<td valign="top"><p dir="ltr">Mike I will own that. It does sound negative. The pace will be what the pace is.</p>
<div class="yqt0927256281" id="yqt45056"><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 11, 2015 11:09 PM, "Mike Silber" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mike.silber@icann.org" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">mike.silber@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi Jothan<br clear="none">
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> On 11 Dec 2015, at 09:47, Jothan Frakes <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:jothan@jothan.com" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">jothan@jothan.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
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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 clear="none">
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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 clear="none">
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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 clear="none">
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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 clear="none">
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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 clear="none">
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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 clear="none">
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