[Bureau] RE: ICANN meeting in Luxembourg - July 2005

Dear Patrick, It is great to hear from you. Congratulations on getting ICANN Luxemburg! PIR will of course be a sponsor of ICANN Luxemburg. The procedure that we have established with other ICANN sponsorships is that because we are a non-profit, we generally get a discount, yet receive equivalent visibility as large "for profit" sponsors. For example if a gold level sponsorship is USD$10,000, we would get Gold level sponsorship as a non-profit for USD$5,000. Our VP of Operations, Bruce Beckwith bbeckwith(a)pir.org <mailto:bbeckwith@pir.org> coordinates PIR sponsorships for ICANN. Please forward Bruce any of the material we need to confirm our sponsorship. I look forward to seeing you in Washington, DC. Safe Travels, Ed Edward G. Viltz (V) +1-703-464-7005 President & CEO (F) +1-703-464-7006 1775 Wiehle Ave. Suite 102A Reston, VA 20190 www.pir.org "Serving the Public Interest" -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Vande Walle [mailto:patrick@isoc.lu] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 8:23 AM To: Edward G. Viltz Subject: ICANN meeting in Luxembourg - July 2005 Dear Ed, You may remember me as the guy sitting next to you at the INET Barcelona gala dinner earlier this year. It is my pleasure to inform you that the Luxemburg Chapter of ISOC, together with the Prime Minister's office and the Restena Foundation, will organise a meeting of the ICANN in Luxembourg from 9 to 15 July 2005. Luxembourg is quite central in Europe. Hence, we expect a large number of attendees to this meeting. Furthermore, since Luxembourg will preside the European Union during the first semester, it will be a a major focus on all agendas, whether political or cultural and generate a lot of activities alongside the political events. Obviously, organising such a large conference requires a lot of resources for which we need to rely on sponsorship. For PIR, sponsorship at the meeting provides various opportunities to have visible exposure and reach out to the highest level of the international community. As organisers, we wish to form sponsorships with companies and organisations that will take an intelligent approach communicating with and among the Internet international community. We also want to learn from our sponsors by actively involving them and together, identifying the most relevant areas to their needs. I will be in Washington DC to attend the ISOC Board of Trustees meeting on 12th and 13th November. I hope we can meet to discuss how PIR could get involved in this meeting. Yours sincerely, Patrick Vande Walle ISOC Phone: +352 021 26.88.91 E-mail: icann(a)isoc.lu Provisional event web site: http://www.isoc.lu/icann-2005 ICANN meetings calendar: http://www.icann.org/meetings ICANN: http://www.icann.org