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

[Vittorio Bertola]

Nick Ashton-Hart ha scritto:
> I'm wondering if the comments Carlton Samuels made recently are relevant 
> here with respect to all Small Island States.
> 
> Would there be value in discussing whether or not all small island 
> states might be either:
> 
> 1) Their own region - irrespective of their physical location;
> 2) In a region of their own, but also associated with the region they 
> are geographically in.

As a caveat to this discussion, keep in mind that at this point in time 
the addition of a region in ICANN implies the expansion of all the 
bodies that have a regional structure to accommodate representatives of 
the new region; the original design was to have a very limited number of 
regions, all more or less the same size (even if this is clearly untrue 
for Asia/Pacific) and thus having the same quantitative representation. 
If you wanted to create many new regions, or regions much smaller than 
the others, or "double region" affiliations... all of this would require 
significant changes in the Bylaws, in cost allocations, in 
representational mechanisms, and in the way ICANN works.

This isn't an impossible feat - and there definitely are parts of the 
world that are not well represented, while others are clearly 
overrepresented - but I don't want to give illusions to anyone that 
creating new regions (as opposed to moving some territories from one 
region to another, which is the intended subject of the consultation) 
would be an easy change. Perhaps there would be ways to address this 
problem other than creating further regions.
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