As we move forward on the completion of our documentation, we’re looking for some community CIO’s to provide guidance about what should be in and what shouldn’t be in a CIO Guidebook. Our plan is to have a focus group of people that we know very well and who understand the issue but have the role of CIO or senior IT staff and can look at the documentation from that perspective. And after that, we will have a focus group of CIO’s from outside the industry who will be able to critique the result. So, if you’re a CIO, or know a CIO, and would be willing to read the existing documentation and provide feedback, would you please let me know. We’d like to try to do this through e-mail but we can organise a call if that will be useful. Thanks. Don
Don, 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. 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, say, for example, they could get space that week and announce and hold summits or workshops - and having a fairly solid presence during that event that might attract those CIOs to have the right conversations if aligned with some announcements and marketing. I am partially being sarcastic because I have a suspicion that this would be a challenge to get approval for in such a short span of time, not to mention that it is unlikely reasonably accomplished given the many coordination and messaging steps that would have to happen to execute on this effectively so that it would be a wise spend. That said, I really wonder how many folks on this list saw what I wrote and said, 'OMG did he really say that... but WOW, You know, that is EXACTLY the type of action we need to see', and then spent a moment envisioning such an expenditure of resources or time, realized the likelihood was minimal, and in a crestfallen manner resumed to look at mild volunteering efforts again. The volunteering by so many in the community towards helping improve the situation is impressive, and appreciated, and my note is really more one to suggest that the path forward needs a bit of oomph so that CIOs will engage on this topic. Or as I playfully say, we need something to get king 'Enry to peek up over the mutton leg they're gnawing. I was encouraged slightly by talk of a UA hack-a-thon for example, that's creative. CES instead of the Marrakech meeting would be a place to hold something like that. Or even NamesCon. Bring it. Appreciating that approval for the budget to do something big at CES is not likely, instead I'd gladly make space available during the show for a UA (Acceptance) Hack-A-Thon. And we could all collectively invite CIOs to NamesCon on UA (Awareness) to learn about the new naming options. They just stay a couple extra days in Las Vegas. Not a hard sell. UA (awareness) is one of the core principles of NamesCon already. Any takers? -Jothan Jothan Frakes Tel: +1.206-355-0230 On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Don Hollander <don.hollander@icann.org> wrote:
As we move forward on the completion of our documentation, we’re looking for some community CIO’s to provide guidance about what should be in and what shouldn’t be in a CIO Guidebook.
Our plan is to have a focus group of people that we know very well and who understand the issue but have the role of CIO or senior IT staff and can look at the documentation from that perspective.
And after that, we will have a focus group of CIO’s from outside the industry who will be able to critique the result.
So, if you’re a CIO, or know a CIO, and would be willing to read the existing documentation and provide feedback, would you please let me know.
We’d like to try to do this through e-mail but we can organise a call if that will be useful.
Thanks.
Don
Jothan, Very interesting ideas. Regrettably, in my opinion, we are not quite ready with good documentation to use to address CIOs. But something for the Community Outreach group to think about for next year. As we’re putting together a budget for the next financial year now, any ideas on costs? Don On 11/12/2015, at 2:47 PM, Jothan Frakes <jothan@jothan.com<mailto:jothan@jothan.com>> wrote: Don, 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. 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, say, for example, they could get space that week and announce and hold summits or workshops - and having a fairly solid presence during that event that might attract those CIOs to have the right conversations if aligned with some announcements and marketing. I am partially being sarcastic because I have a suspicion that this would be a challenge to get approval for in such a short span of time, not to mention that it is unlikely reasonably accomplished given the many coordination and messaging steps that would have to happen to execute on this effectively so that it would be a wise spend. That said, I really wonder how many folks on this list saw what I wrote and said, 'OMG did he really say that... but WOW, You know, that is EXACTLY the type of action we need to see', and then spent a moment envisioning such an expenditure of resources or time, realized the likelihood was minimal, and in a crestfallen manner resumed to look at mild volunteering efforts again. The volunteering by so many in the community towards helping improve the situation is impressive, and appreciated, and my note is really more one to suggest that the path forward needs a bit of oomph so that CIOs will engage on this topic. Or as I playfully say, we need something to get king 'Enry to peek up over the mutton leg they're gnawing. I was encouraged slightly by talk of a UA hack-a-thon for example, that's creative. CES instead of the Marrakech meeting would be a place to hold something like that. Or even NamesCon. Bring it. Appreciating that approval for the budget to do something big at CES is not likely, instead I'd gladly make space available during the show for a UA (Acceptance) Hack-A-Thon. And we could all collectively invite CIOs to NamesCon on UA (Awareness) to learn about the new naming options. They just stay a couple extra days in Las Vegas. Not a hard sell. UA (awareness) is one of the core principles of NamesCon already. Any takers? -Jothan Jothan Frakes Tel: +1.206-355-0230<tel:%2B1.206-355-0230> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Don Hollander <don.hollander@icann.org<mailto:don.hollander@icann.org>> wrote: As we move forward on the completion of our documentation, we’re looking for some community CIO’s to provide guidance about what should be in and what shouldn’t be in a CIO Guidebook. Our plan is to have a focus group of people that we know very well and who understand the issue but have the role of CIO or senior IT staff and can look at the documentation from that perspective. And after that, we will have a focus group of CIO’s from outside the industry who will be able to critique the result. So, if you’re a CIO, or know a CIO, and would be willing to read the existing documentation and provide feedback, would you please let me know. We’d like to try to do this through e-mail but we can organise a call if that will be useful. Thanks. Don
Hi Don- For NamesCon this year some form of sessions for CIO's to help understand new TLDs are already baked in to the agenda, and I one of the primary focuses we have is to spread awareness of domain names, new and old. We'll have over 1000 people there so we're not hurting for attendees, but having some CIOs be able to get exposure to Awareness/Acceptance is a shared goal. To hold something specifically for ICANN to speak on UA would be gratis because I already have the space, subject to availability within the current schedule. Akram is on the agenda to speak, which I think would be good for executive peers within the C-Suite seeing Executive participation by ICANN. If we did a specific session to help educate on Acceptance I have some ideas I will sent in PM (however if there were costs like catering food beverage for a lunch or something like that it would require a sponsor to cover those costs), as the co-founder I can do that, but if there were catering costs we would need to pass those through. This year the Consumer Electronics Show ends on 1/8 and NamesCon (NC16) begins 1/10. We will not have the show back to back with CES in future years, so perhaps CES itself is one to focus on in 2017, but UA discussion will always be welcome at NC17. https://www.cesweb.org/exhibitor has all the information you would want for exhibitors or other participation. We will have many UA (Acceptance and Awareness) sessions at NamesCon next month also: http://www.namescon.vegas/ and I suspect many from this list will be there as well. -Jothan Jothan Frakes Tel: +1.206-355-0230 On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:28 AM, Don Hollander <don.hollander@icann.org> wrote:
Jothan,
Very interesting ideas.
Regrettably, in my opinion, we are not quite ready with good documentation to use to address CIOs.
But something for the Community Outreach group to think about for next year.
As we’re putting together a budget for the next financial year now, any ideas on costs?
Don
On 11/12/2015, at 2:47 PM, Jothan Frakes <jothan@jothan.com> wrote:
Don,
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.
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, say, for example, they could get space that week and announce and hold summits or workshops - and having a fairly solid presence during that event that might attract those CIOs to have the right conversations if aligned with some announcements and marketing.
I am partially being sarcastic because I have a suspicion that this would be a challenge to get approval for in such a short span of time, not to mention that it is unlikely reasonably accomplished given the many coordination and messaging steps that would have to happen to execute on this effectively so that it would be a wise spend.
That said, I really wonder how many folks on this list saw what I wrote and said, 'OMG did he really say that... but WOW, You know, that is EXACTLY the type of action we need to see', and then spent a moment envisioning such an expenditure of resources or time, realized the likelihood was minimal, and in a crestfallen manner resumed to look at mild volunteering efforts again.
The volunteering by so many in the community towards helping improve the situation is impressive, and appreciated, and my note is really more one to suggest that the path forward needs a bit of oomph so that CIOs will engage on this topic. Or as I playfully say, we need something to get king 'Enry to peek up over the mutton leg they're gnawing.
I was encouraged slightly by talk of a UA hack-a-thon for example, that's creative. CES instead of the Marrakech meeting would be a place to hold something like that. Or even NamesCon. Bring it.
Appreciating that approval for the budget to do something big at CES is not likely, instead I'd gladly make space available during the show for a UA (Acceptance) Hack-A-Thon. And we could all collectively invite CIOs to NamesCon on UA (Awareness) to learn about the new naming options. They just stay a couple extra days in Las Vegas. Not a hard sell. UA (awareness) is one of the core principles of NamesCon already.
Any takers?
-Jothan
Jothan Frakes Tel: +1.206-355-0230
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Don Hollander <don.hollander@icann.org> wrote:
As we move forward on the completion of our documentation, we’re looking for some community CIO’s to provide guidance about what should be in and what shouldn’t be in a CIO Guidebook.
Our plan is to have a focus group of people that we know very well and who understand the issue but have the role of CIO or senior IT staff and can look at the documentation from that perspective.
And after that, we will have a focus group of CIO’s from outside the industry who will be able to critique the result.
So, if you’re a CIO, or know a CIO, and would be willing to read the existing documentation and provide feedback, would you please let me know.
We’d like to try to do this through e-mail but we can organise a call if that will be useful.
Thanks.
Don
Just a thought… but if there are influential CIO's (or CIO's of companies with known acceptance issues) that can be identified who will be at CES, why not reach out and offer them complimentary attendance to NamesCon? Even without a specific agenda item on acceptance, exposure to NamesCon will give a strong impression as to the vibrancy of the domain name ecosystem and the growing interest in domains of all shapes and sizes (from IDNs to cctlds, to the new extensions…). Just a thought… Watch The Video Please note my new email: jeff@get.club Jeffrey Sas s , CMO .CLUB Domains, LLC Direct: (+1) 954-256-9334 Mobile: (+1) 970-367-7277 E-Mail: jeff@get.club Website: www.get.club Twitter: @sass @getDotClub Skype, Hangouts: jwsass PLEASE NOTE : I am only checking email 2-3 times per day. If something is time sensitive (really time sensitive) please message me or text me at the mobile number above. Thanks! On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:21 AM, Jothan Frakes < jothan@jothan.com > wrote: Hi Don- For NamesCon this year some form of sessions for CIO's to help understand new TLDs are already baked in to the agenda, and I one of the primary focuses we have is to spread awareness of domain names, new and old. We'll have over 1000 people there so we're not hurting for attendees, but having some CIOs be able to get exposure to Awareness/Acceptance is a shared goal. To hold something specifically for ICANN to speak on UA would be gratis because I already have the space, subject to availability within the current schedule. Akram is on the agenda to speak, which I think would be good for executive peers within the C-Suite seeing Executive participation by ICANN. If we did a specific session to help educate on Acceptance I have some ideas I will sent in PM (however if there were costs like catering food beverage for a lunch or something like that it would require a sponsor to cover those costs), as the co-founder I can do that, but if there were catering costs we would need to pass those through. This year the Consumer Electronics Show ends on 1/8 and NamesCon (NC16) begins 1/10. We will not have the show back to back with CES in future years, so perhaps CES itself is one to focus on in 2017, but UA discussion will always be welcome at NC17. https://www.cesweb.org/ exhibitor has all the information you would want for exhibitors or other participation. We will have many UA (Acceptance and Awareness) sessions at NamesCon next month also: http://www.namescon.vegas/ and I suspect many from this list will be there as well. -Jothan Jothan Frakes Tel: +1.206-355-0230 On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:28 AM, Don Hollander < don.hollander@icann.org > wrote: Jothan, Very interesting ideas. Regrettably, in my opinion, we are not quite ready with good documentation to use to address CIOs. But something for the Community Outreach group to think about for next year. As we’re putting together a budget for the next financial year now, any ideas on costs? Don On 11/12/2015, at 2:47 PM, Jothan Frakes < jothan@jothan.com > wrote: Don, 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. 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, say, for example, they could get space that week and announce and hold summits or workshops - and having a fairly solid presence during that event that might attract those CIOs to have the right conversations if aligned with some announcements and marketing. I am partially being sarcastic because I have a suspicion that this would be a challenge to get approval for in such a short span of time, not to mention that it is unlikely reasonably accomplished given the many coordination and messaging steps that would have to happen to execute on this effectively so that it would be a wise spend. That said, I really wonder how many folks on this list saw what I wrote and said, 'OMG did he really say that... but WOW, You know, that is EXACTLY the type of action we need to see', and then spent a moment envisioning such an expenditure of resources or time, realized the likelihood was minimal, and in a crestfallen manner resumed to look at mild volunteering efforts again. The volunteering by so many in the community towards helping improve the situation is impressive, and appreciated, and my note is really more one to suggest that the path forward needs a bit of oomph so that CIOs will engage on this topic. Or as I playfully say, we need something to get king 'Enry to peek up over the mutton leg they're gnawing. I was encouraged slightly by talk of a UA hack-a-thon for example, that's creative. CES instead of the Marrakech meeting would be a place to hold something like that. Or even NamesCon. Bring it. Appreciating that approval for the budget to do something big at CES is not likely, instead I'd gladly make space available during the show for a UA (Acceptance) Hack-A-Thon. And we could all collectively invite CIOs to NamesCon on UA (Awareness) to learn about the new naming options. They just stay a couple extra days in Las Vegas. Not a hard sell. UA (awareness) is one of the core principles of NamesCon already. Any takers? -Jothan Jothan Frakes Tel: +1.206-355-0230 On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Don Hollander < don.hollander@icann.org > wrote: As we move forward on the completion of our documentation, we’re looking for some community CIO’s to provide guidance about what should be in and what shouldn’t be in a CIO Guidebook. Our plan is to have a focus group of people that we know very well and who understand the issue but have the role of CIO or senior IT staff and can look at the documentation from that perspective. And after that, we will have a focus group of CIO’s from outside the industry who will be able to critique the result. So, if you’re a CIO, or know a CIO, and would be willing to read the existing documentation and provide feedback, would you please let me know. We’d like to try to do this through e-mail but we can organise a call if that will be useful. Thanks. Don
All, There are also CIO LinkedIn groups (ICANN’s CIO participates in one and we asked him to use this to reach out to CIOs re name collision in the past.) There is also CIO magazine. When we’re ready we can pursue an interview there and perhaps consider some online outreach based on their list, banner ads etc. G http://www.cio.com/ Gwen Carlson Director, Communications ICANN Global Domains Division Direct: +1 310 578 8653 Mobile: +1 619 322 3188 www.icann.org<http://www.icann.org/> From: ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Sass Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 6:49 AM To: Jothan Frakes <jothan@jothan.com> Cc: UA-discuss@icann.org Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] CIOs Wanted Just a thought… but if there are influential CIO's (or CIO's of companies with known acceptance issues) that can be identified who will be at CES, why not reach out and offer them complimentary attendance to NamesCon? Even without a specific agenda item on acceptance, exposure to NamesCon will give a strong impression as to the vibrancy of the domain name ecosystem and the growing interest in domains of all shapes and sizes (from IDNs to cctlds, to the new extensions…). Just a thought… Watch The Video<https://youtu.be/DXGXaTJ-hwQ> Please note my new email: jeff@get.club<mailto:jeff@get.club> Jeffrey Sass, CMO .CLUB Domains, LLC Direct: (+1) 954-256-9334 Mobile: (+1) 970-367-7277 E-Mail: jeff@get.club<mailto:jeff@get.club> Website: www.get.club<http://www.get.club> Twitter: @sass<http://www.twitter.com/sass> @getDotClub<http://www.twitter.com/getDotClub> Skype, Hangouts: jwsass PLEASE NOTE: I am only checking email 2-3 times per day. If something is time sensitive (really time sensitive) please message me or text me at the mobile number above. Thanks! [https://app.mixmax.com/api/track/v2/bYvySimiQl2B0iWnl/iIWdsNmL0V2ZAZmZlpmI/g...] On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:21 AM, Jothan Frakes <jothan@jothan.com<mailto:jothan@jothan.com>> wrote: Hi Don- For NamesCon this year some form of sessions for CIO's to help understand new TLDs are already baked in to the agenda, and I one of the primary focuses we have is to spread awareness of domain names, new and old. We'll have over 1000 people there so we're not hurting for attendees, but having some CIOs be able to get exposure to Awareness/Acceptance is a shared goal. To hold something specifically for ICANN to speak on UA would be gratis because I already have the space, subject to availability within the current schedule. Akram is on the agenda to speak, which I think would be good for executive peers within the C-Suite seeing Executive participation by ICANN. If we did a specific session to help educate on Acceptance I have some ideas I will sent in PM (however if there were costs like catering food beverage for a lunch or something like that it would require a sponsor to cover those costs), as the co-founder I can do that, but if there were catering costs we would need to pass those through. This year the Consumer Electronics Show ends on 1/8 and NamesCon (NC16) begins 1/10. We will not have the show back to back with CES in future years, so perhaps CES itself is one to focus on in 2017, but UA discussion will always be welcome at NC17. https://www.cesweb.org/exhibitor has all the information you would want for exhibitors or other participation. We will have many UA (Acceptance and Awareness) sessions at NamesCon next month also: http://www.namescon.vegas/ and I suspect many from this list will be there as well. -Jothan Jothan Frakes Tel: +1.206-355-0230<tel:%2B1.206-355-0230> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:28 AM, Don Hollander <don.hollander@icann.org<mailto:don.hollander@icann.org>> wrote: Jothan, Very interesting ideas. Regrettably, in my opinion, we are not quite ready with good documentation to use to address CIOs. But something for the Community Outreach group to think about for next year. As we’re putting together a budget for the next financial year now, any ideas on costs? Don On 11/12/2015, at 2:47 PM, Jothan Frakes <jothan@jothan.com<mailto:jothan@jothan.com>> wrote: Don, 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. 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, say, for example, they could get space that week and announce and hold summits or workshops - and having a fairly solid presence during that event that might attract those CIOs to have the right conversations if aligned with some announcements and marketing. I am partially being sarcastic because I have a suspicion that this would be a challenge to get approval for in such a short span of time, not to mention that it is unlikely reasonably accomplished given the many coordination and messaging steps that would have to happen to execute on this effectively so that it would be a wise spend. That said, I really wonder how many folks on this list saw what I wrote and said, 'OMG did he really say that... but WOW, You know, that is EXACTLY the type of action we need to see', and then spent a moment envisioning such an expenditure of resources or time, realized the likelihood was minimal, and in a crestfallen manner resumed to look at mild volunteering efforts again. The volunteering by so many in the community towards helping improve the situation is impressive, and appreciated, and my note is really more one to suggest that the path forward needs a bit of oomph so that CIOs will engage on this topic. Or as I playfully say, we need something to get king 'Enry to peek up over the mutton leg they're gnawing. I was encouraged slightly by talk of a UA hack-a-thon for example, that's creative. CES instead of the Marrakech meeting would be a place to hold something like that. Or even NamesCon. Bring it. Appreciating that approval for the budget to do something big at CES is not likely, instead I'd gladly make space available during the show for a UA (Acceptance) Hack-A-Thon. And we could all collectively invite CIOs to NamesCon on UA (Awareness) to learn about the new naming options. They just stay a couple extra days in Las Vegas. Not a hard sell. UA (awareness) is one of the core principles of NamesCon already. Any takers? -Jothan Jothan Frakes Tel: +1.206-355-0230<tel:%2B1.206-355-0230> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Don Hollander <don.hollander@icann.org<mailto:don.hollander@icann.org>> wrote: As we move forward on the completion of our documentation, we’re looking for some community CIO’s to provide guidance about what should be in and what shouldn’t be in a CIO Guidebook. Our plan is to have a focus group of people that we know very well and who understand the issue but have the role of CIO or senior IT staff and can look at the documentation from that perspective. And after that, we will have a focus group of CIO’s from outside the industry who will be able to critique the result. So, if you’re a CIO, or know a CIO, and would be willing to read the existing documentation and provide feedback, would you please let me know. We’d like to try to do this through e-mail but we can organise a call if that will be useful. Thanks. Don
Gwen- These are seriously outstanding ideas. I am quite grateful to see you and Don thinking this way and I am grateful you're involved in the communications. I am sincere in looking at ways that NamesCon can be leveraged towards UA (Awareness/Acceptance). -Jothan Jothan Frakes +1.206-355-0230 tel +1.206-201-6881 fax On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Gwen Carlson <gwen.carlson@icann.org> wrote:
All,
There are also CIO LinkedIn groups (ICANN’s CIO participates in one and we asked him to use this to reach out to CIOs re name collision in the past.) There is also CIO magazine. When we’re ready we can pursue an interview there and perhaps consider some online outreach based on their list, banner ads etc.
G
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ICANN Global Domains Division
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Just a thought… but if there are influential CIO's (or CIO's of companies with known acceptance issues) that can be identified who will be at CES, why not reach out and offer them complimentary attendance to NamesCon? Even without a specific agenda item on acceptance, exposure to NamesCon will give a strong impression as to the vibrancy of the domain name ecosystem and the growing interest in domains of all shapes and sizes (from IDNs to cctlds, to the new extensions…).
Just a thought…
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On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:21 AM, Jothan Frakes <jothan@jothan.com> wrote:
Hi Don-
For NamesCon this year some form of sessions for CIO's to help understand new TLDs are already baked in to the agenda, and I one of the primary focuses we have is to spread awareness of domain names, new and old. We'll have over 1000 people there so we're not hurting for attendees, but having some CIOs be able to get exposure to Awareness/Acceptance is a shared goal.
To hold something specifically for ICANN to speak on UA would be gratis because I already have the space, subject to availability within the current schedule. Akram is on the agenda to speak, which I think would be good for executive peers within the C-Suite seeing Executive participation by ICANN. If we did a specific session to help educate on Acceptance I have some ideas I will sent in PM (however if there were costs like catering food beverage for a lunch or something like that it would require a sponsor to cover those costs), as the co-founder I can do that, but if there were catering costs we would need to pass those through.
This year the Consumer Electronics Show ends on 1/8 and NamesCon (NC16) begins 1/10. We will not have the show back to back with CES in future years, so perhaps CES itself is one to focus on in 2017, but UA discussion will always be welcome at NC17. https://www.cesweb.org/exhibitor has all the information you would want for exhibitors or other participation.
We will have many UA (Acceptance and Awareness) sessions at NamesCon next month also: http://www.namescon.vegas/ and I suspect many from this list will be there as well.
-Jothan
Jothan Frakes Tel: +1.206-355-0230
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:28 AM, Don Hollander <don.hollander@icann.org> wrote:
Jothan,
Very interesting ideas.
Regrettably, in my opinion, we are not quite ready with good documentation to use to address CIOs.
But something for the Community Outreach group to think about for next year.
As we’re putting together a budget for the next financial year now, any ideas on costs?
Don
On 11/12/2015, at 2:47 PM, Jothan Frakes <jothan@jothan.com> wrote:
Don,
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.
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, say, for example, they could get space that week and announce and hold summits or workshops - and having a fairly solid presence during that event that might attract those CIOs to have the right conversations if aligned with some announcements and marketing.
I am partially being sarcastic because I have a suspicion that this would be a challenge to get approval for in such a short span of time, not to mention that it is unlikely reasonably accomplished given the many coordination and messaging steps that would have to happen to execute on this effectively so that it would be a wise spend.
That said, I really wonder how many folks on this list saw what I wrote and said, 'OMG did he really say that... but WOW, You know, that is EXACTLY the type of action we need to see', and then spent a moment envisioning such an expenditure of resources or time, realized the likelihood was minimal, and in a crestfallen manner resumed to look at mild volunteering efforts again.
The volunteering by so many in the community towards helping improve the situation is impressive, and appreciated, and my note is really more one to suggest that the path forward needs a bit of oomph so that CIOs will engage on this topic. Or as I playfully say, we need something to get king 'Enry to peek up over the mutton leg they're gnawing.
I was encouraged slightly by talk of a UA hack-a-thon for example, that's creative. CES instead of the Marrakech meeting would be a place to hold something like that. Or even NamesCon. Bring it.
Appreciating that approval for the budget to do something big at CES is not likely, instead I'd gladly make space available during the show for a UA (Acceptance) Hack-A-Thon. And we could all collectively invite CIOs to NamesCon on UA (Awareness) to learn about the new naming options. They just stay a couple extra days in Las Vegas. Not a hard sell. UA (awareness) is one of the core principles of NamesCon already.
Any takers?
-Jothan
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On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Don Hollander <don.hollander@icann.org> wrote:
As we move forward on the completion of our documentation, we’re looking for some community CIO’s to provide guidance about what should be in and what shouldn’t be in a CIO Guidebook.
Our plan is to have a focus group of people that we know very well and who understand the issue but have the role of CIO or senior IT staff and can look at the documentation from that perspective.
And after that, we will have a focus group of CIO’s from outside the industry who will be able to critique the result.
So, if you’re a CIO, or know a CIO, and would be willing to read the existing documentation and provide feedback, would you please let me know.
We’d like to try to do this through e-mail but we can organise a call if that will be useful.
Thanks.
Don
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
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
The internet is supposed to make it easier for businesses and business people to connect and get things done faster, like, for example, recruiting business people, but ironically internet governance connected groups spend most of their time physically traveling to places to get mostly nothing done, and say "more work needs to be done". Anybody remember NamesCon 2008? Me niether. There hasn't ever been a Conference that the whole world benefitted from, because conferences in the internet age are not meant for progress, conferences are just excuses for people to travel, to see and be seen, to party, in my opinion, and in my opinion proven by the fact that the internet's supposed and oft-mentioned purpose is to facilitate the entire business process, making the decision making/meeting process at conferences obsolete, unnecessary in a business sense, and also laughable, when some business people who could easily talk and compare business notes any time of day via the internet say, "Let's wait for the conference to decide on that." Why? So Travelers can say they are leaders who physically traveled to meet and talk with relevant business people, when I am as much of a leader writing this single critique via email as they are traveling to vegas to walk around and say, "ooh, that's interesting" 1000 times. While it might be fun to do, the internet community is waiting for real tangible progress and real solutions to real world problems and all the tech community has provided them in the past 12 months is an IWatch. I would argue that the "constant conference culture" limits real progress by getting people stuck in a never ending travel loop, where all they begin to care about is the quality of the next travel destination. Ron
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
Agree with Mike on CES. I’ve got good contacts with the CES team once we’ve got all our ducks in a row - clear deliverables to a clearly chosen narrow audience who can convert on clear action items we hand them. We’re getting there. We aren’t getting there by January - but then again, next CES is just around the corner and I can start talking to CTA in February about planning something good for CES 2017. -Christian
On Dec 11, 2015, at 11:08 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
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Ron Baione