RE: [council] Sponsorship of the ICANN Meetings

[carlos dionisio aguirre <carlosaguirre62@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Kristina: The benefit for participate like sponsor must be measured by who 
want to be sponsor, not by ICANN.ICANN (or your financial manager) must measure 
and evaluate, the absense of sponsors. The situation is totally different and 
contrary.  The rules of Economy are mandatories on that. Each one play their 
game.On the other side and in the instance to somebody think, that ICANN must 
to have registration fees: Im totally against on that, because:ICANN have a 
underlying principles, like participation and bottom up process, appart to be 
a" non profit organization". Where do you include this, when you decide to make 
that the people pay for participate?Yes, I know (perhaps the response is) the 
people can participate remotely. But you & me know that is not the same.ICANN 
model is good for me, if you make business with ICANN and have incomes for this 
businesses, and you want to have publicity within the meetings, so, you must 
pay for that. Im not completely sure, but Is not mandatory to be sponsor. Am I 
wrong? If you, like a Internet Industry company, want to make your product or 
service be visible, have no much more options. publicity, and pay to be 
sponsor. How Much ? The company decide if it appropriate or not. That means: 
free market. ICANN fix the price to be sponsor, and the candidate to be sponsor 
must decide if will be or not. After that, there are many other considerations 
to do, but I think this is the essential. From my humble point of view .
Carlos Dionisio Aguirre
NCA GNSO Council - ICANN
former ALAC member by LACRALO
Abogado - Especialista en Derecho de los Negocios
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From: krosette@xxxxxxx
To: council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:50:34 -0500
Subject: RE: [council] Sponsorship of the ICANN Meetings








It seems to me that if we're going to be talking about 
sponsorship, we should also be talking about whether it's time for ICANN to 
start charging a registration fee to attend the meetings.  I was dumbstruck 
when I attended my first ICANN meeting and found out that there's no charge to 
attend.  Every other meeting I attend has a registration fee and some are 
quite high ($750+).  
 
Let me be clear:  I'm NOT suggesting that ICANN should 
start charging a registration fee so that the meetings are revenue 
generators.  I do think, though, that it's time to examine whether the 
costs of the meetings are high enough so that it makes sense to charge some fee 
that can be used to offset those costs.  In addition, the more ICANN can 
recover through registration fees, the less money it needs from sponsors.  

 
As to the sponsorship fee, the prices and "benefits" are at 
the point where there's an optics issue, IMHO.
 
K



  
  
  From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stéphane Van 
  Gelder
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 3:40 AM
To: Adrian 
  Kinderis
Cc: council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [council] 
  Sponsorship of the ICANN Meetings


  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