[ALAC] [EURO-ALS] ACTION ITEM: Consultation on makeup of ICANNRegions underway

[Roberto Gaetano]

I think that also Frank, from the Pacific Islands, might have something to
add to this (re: the fact that some islands are AP, some EU).

RG

 

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> Of Wendy Seltzer
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> Subject: Re: [EURO-ALS] [ALAC] ACTION ITEM: Consultation on 
> makeup of ICANNRegions underway
> 
> Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
> > Just a reminder, there is an open consultation on the Geographic 
> > Regions of ICANN, and whether the regions should be changed.
> > 
> > The At-Large community's views would be welcomed - this point was 
> > actually reinforced to me today by Paul Twomey amongst others.
> > 
> > Might I suggest at least two points which could be 
> communicated, these 
> > two points being ones I have heard mentioned by others, and 
> not being 
> > personal observations?
> > 
> > 1) Some member-states of the European Union are located in regions 
> > outside of Europe, which ought to be changed. In fact, candidate 
> > states of the EU might also be better situated within the European 
> > region than in others (Turkey comes to mind as an obvious 
> example of 
> > this);
> > 2) The Asia-Pacific region is currently enormous. I have 
> heard it said 
> > in particular that some representatives of Middle-Eastern groups 
> > believe it ought to be a region of it's own, not in the APAC region.
> 
> I encouraged our Puerto Rican ALS applicants to comment 
> directly, but we should further recall that at least some of 
> them feel they'd be better served by participating in the LAC region.
> 
> --Wendy
> bracing for the set of bounces from regional lists...
> > 
> > For the full text of the consultation announcement, please visit 
> > http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-rev-28nov06.htm.
> > 
> > 
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