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The dinner looks a lot snazzier on video than it was in person – not that it wasn’t nice, as it should be given all the excess profit ICANN will be making under the .Com settlement. The interior was festooned with VeriSign banners but nary an ICANN logo in sight.
For comparison sake, there was a lot of VeriSign swag in the meeting bags at Sao Paulo but none at Lisbon. And the entertainment at the Sao Paulo gala dinner (also a VeriSign event) was a lot more engaging (acrobats, dancers, pulsating Latin drumbeats. etc.) than at Lisbon, where the crowd got restless and started talking over the Fado singer after his second song.
Finally, while a complete ICANN meeting video would also show hours of intense (and sometimes tedious) meetings, there are moments, like the dinner, where ICANN and VeriSign seem joined at the hip.
Weird. I was under the impression the Salvation Army was against vertical dancing, and there they are – with their timbrels – in a circle with some guy getting down in the centre. ***FS***
Little 3 min video speaks volumes.
The dinner looks a lot snazzier on video than it was in person – not that it wasn’t nice, as it should be given all the excess profit ICANN will be making under the .Com settlement. The interior was festooned with VeriSign banners but nary an ICANN logo in sight.
For comparison sake, there was a lot of VeriSign swag in the meeting bags at Sao Paulo but none at Lisbon. And the entertainment at the Sao Paulo gala dinner (also a VeriSign event) was a lot more engaging (acrobats, dancers, pulsating Latin drumbeats. etc.) than at Lisbon, where the crowd got restless and started talking over the Fado singer after his second song.
Finally, while a complete ICANN meeting video would also show hours of intense (and sometimes tedious) meetings, there are moments, like the dinner, where ICANN and VeriSign seem joined at the hip.
On to San Juan!!!
That was the Portugese ALAC group [in the video] waving their flag of surrender to Verisign.
frank, all of that was the local host putting on their best airs when they heard that the ICA was making the scene!
by the way, did you notice the two handsome guys in the middle of the clip?
***FS*** Ha.. I wish I could look that suave.
Weird. I was under the impression the Salvation Army was against vertical dancing, and there they are – with their timbrels – in a circle with some guy getting down in the centre. ***FS***