<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">There have been many efforts for many years by many people and organisations to put the IGF on a sustainable financial footing but it wasn't enough of a priority for enough stakeholders to make it happen (being completely candid).<div><br></div><div>My hope is that the current situation will actually end up with the prioritisation of a sustainable fix by enough stakeholders that it gets sorted out at last.</div><div><br><div><div>On 26 Jul 2013, at 22:48, Fouad Bajwa <<a href="mailto:fouadbajwa@gmail.com">fouadbajwa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">So the question is that how do stakeholders prevent such future crashes, second, what is plan B and third, why hasn't a sustainability mechanism evolved even six years after the IGF was started?</span><br style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>