Re: [council] Sponsorship of the ICANN Meetings

[Stéphane Van Gelder <stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx>]

I see no reason why this could not be discussed here.

Is there anyone from Staff that can address Adrian's questions?

As far as the Council taking a position on this, what do others think? Is there 
a desire to work on drafting a letter on this topic?

Stéphane

Le 23 janv. 2011 à 09:49, Adrian Kinderis a écrit :

> 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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