[At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Action Items

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight]

Danny Younger wrote:
> With regard to the Draft Operating Principles point #4
> that states "Public documents will be produced in
> English and French", I would like to know why a
> decision was made not to include Spanish.
> 
> I'm told that Canada's population is currently about
> 33 million (with Wikipedia reporting that "roughly 31%
> of Canadian citizens are French-speaking).  That
> translates into around 10 million speakers of French. 
> As of the last U.S. Census, America had 1,700,000
> French speakers.  Combined figures would therefore
> total around 12 million French speakers in the region.
> 
> Spanish speakers in the U.S. totaled a little more
> than 17 million in the year 2000 and everyone knows
> that the U.S. has been inundated lately with illegal
> immigrants from South of the border.  Clearly, Spanish
> is a language used in the North American region to a
> greater degree than French.  
> 
> Let me also remind everyone that in Puerto Rico (part
> of ICANN's North American Region) the dominant
> language spoken is Spanish.


All very interesting, but what about the rest of the planet?




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