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<div>indeed the size of the organizations varies widely. That is one of the facts that guided the design.</div>
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<div>Some organizations may claim to have 150,000 members and others 50. The Web-of-trust concept applies first to obtain some certainty about the validity of these claims. The vetting process allows for that too. And you more or less know, at least within
 the region of the RALO, whom you are actually speaking with.&nbsp;</div>
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<div>Another significant point against Dev's and in general &quot;ICANN chapter&quot; designs is that ALSs are diverse in another sense: functional diversity. Some would be primarily engineering or technical organizations (though in practice most of these abhor the At
 Large), others are lawyers' associations, others are primarily oriented to the defense of consumer or other rights, etc. This is one of the design principles that has more or less panned out.</div>
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<div>We could do much better if we assessed ALSes for 1. fit under ICANN's mission, 2. ability to represent or transmit users concerns, 3. relevant activity - and repeat this assessment periodically. The salutary effects of this practice would reverse much
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<b>Enviado el:</b> lunes, 13 de febrero de 2017 14:47<br>
<b>Hasta:</b> 'ALAC Working List'; 'At-Large Worldwide'<br>
<b>Asunto:</b> Re: [At-Large] [ALAC] Idea for an alternative to the EMM proposed in the At-Large Review<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif">I think we</span></a><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt">’</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif">re
 missing a point that the report inadvertently revealed and which it is trying to indirectly address.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif">The RALOs are all very, very different. Size, state of the Internet, and concerns of the region, not to mention the governments that tend to be prevalent. Creating
 a one size fits all type of RALO will be hard. If we seek to restructure the concept of RALOs, the new structure has to address the diverse ecosystems that exist within these geographical areas.</span></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Javier Rua<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 13, 2017 2:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> John R. Levine &lt;johnl@iecc.com&gt;<br>
<b>Cc:</b> ALAC Working List &lt;alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org&gt;; At-Large Worldwide &lt;at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org&gt;<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [At-Large] [ALAC] Idea for an alternative to the EMM proposed in the At-Large Review</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Two sovereign states. &nbsp;&quot;A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent
 or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics.&quot;&nbsp;<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country</a><br>
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On Feb 13, 2017, at 4:24 PM, John R. Levine &lt;<a href="mailto:johnl@iecc.com" target="_blank">johnl@iecc.com</a>&gt; wrote:</p>
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These are US territories whcih for historical reasons have ISO 3166 codes:<br>
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The minor outlying islands are uninahbited, the rest other than Puerto Rico are tiny with a combined population less than Wyoming, the smallest US state.<br>
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Really, there are two countries in the NA region, the US and Canada. &nbsp;It is vanishingly unlikely there will ever be an ALS from any US territory other than Puerto Rico because they are so small.<br>
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Canada also has three thinly populated territories but since they are contiguous with the rest of Canada, ISO 3166 never noticed them.<br>
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Canada is divided into provinces and the US into states, but in both countries the large provinces and states are vastly larger than the smallest ones so they're not a very good way to subdivide, either.<br>
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We now return you to whatever we were talking about before.<br>
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R's,<br>
John<br>
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