Re: [ga] ICANN Travel Budgeting

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi George,

Maybe if ICANN has used that new tool called Google
they would have realized that the Delhi meeting
overlaps the Chinese New Year celebrations -- Between
the exhorbitant cost and the Holiday, I guess they're
trying to keep as many folk away as possible :(


--- George Kirikos <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> --- Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I just sent a similar note to Kieren by way of the
> > CPSR Governance list.  I'd love to know why the
> other
> > candidate cities were rejected if the cost for
> > attendance in Delhi is so high.
> 
> Just as another example, both Moniker.com and
> DomainRoundtable.com held
> live domain name auctions streamed over the internet
> to hundreds of
> people using:
> 
> www.ustream.tv
> 
> Millions of dollars changed hands. That application
> even has a
> chatroom, and doesn't require the crash-prone Real
> Player software.
> 
> I'm sure there any number of vendors who could
> provide low cost remote
> participation systems. Besides Webex and ustream.tv,
> there's
> Microsoft's LiveMeeting (www.livemeeting.com). 
> 
> There's also this "new" tool on the Internet called
> "Google", maybe
> Vint Cerf might have let ICANN know about it before
> he left. I went to
> www.google.com and typed "videoconferencing"  and go
> 3.7 million
> matches, fancy that. And there were these things
> called "sponsored
> links", where people were begging to give free
> estimates.
> 
> Once this "new" technology called "Google" reaches
> ICANN, perhaps
> they'll be a force to be reckoned with. It might
> better compete with
> some cozy travel operator whose first thoughts are
> "suckers" whenever
> ICANN calls them for a "quote."
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> George Kirikos
> http://www.kirikos.com/
> 
> 



      
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