[council] Sponsorship of the ICANN Meetings

[Adrian Kinderis]

Stephane,

I am not sure of the correct forum to bring this up however I do so here...

I have been contacted by a number of my constituents regarding the severe raising of pricing of the sponsorship packages for the upcoming San Francisco meeting.

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!

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.

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.

Your thoughts would be appreciated.

Regards,



Adrian Kinderis


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