Re: [ga] ICANN Travel Budgeting

[jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

George and all,

  I believe you mean "had used".  In any event, google
would be a poor source for such information.  Other than
folks traveling from China or to China, which isn't relevant
to these unreasonable costs, it is difficult to quantify
or reasonably justify these extream costs for such travel,
or for that matter, the need to have so many, if any, physically
meeting in Delhi anyway.  

  Nice try here George, but again, no cigar!  >:)

-----Original Message-----
>From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Dec 6, 2007 10:11 AM
>To: George Kirikos <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx>, ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ga] ICANN Travel Budgeting
>
>
>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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