Mike I will own that. It does sound negative. The pace will be what the pace is. On Dec 11, 2015 11:09 PM, "Mike Silber" <mike.silber@icann.org> wrote:
Hi Jothan
On 11 Dec 2015, at 09:47, Jothan Frakes <jothan@jothan.com> wrote:
I am going to throw this out there as an idea about a great way to positively impact the UA (A= Acceptance/Awareness) with the authentic realization that it will be both stillborn and read as sarcasm.
Now who is being negative?
Just before NamesCon in January in Las Vegas is this little show called CES - that pulls in nearly 180,000 people - with CIOs abounding. IF ICANN spent a teensy weensy fraction of the interest on the nTLD auction proceeds
The auction proceeds are ring-fenced until the community process has moved forward. So I would rather suggest that you ignore the source of funding and focus on the objective, the cost and the result.
However I think the idea of CES is very interesting ... and I am sure there are other and similar events that could also be useful.
Could I suggest that we work on identifying the message we want to get out, the audience for that message and options for delivering the message to the audience: we can then push this through the relevant processes to get budget.
(BTW - I think CES is a good idea, but not appropriate because we are not prepared. I have no idea of levels of participation or cost - so please do not consider this a formal endorsement.)
Mike