[At-Large] Geographic diversity in the NARALO

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

On 19/05/07, John L <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
> > As to your point about relative population, this could have been said
> > in other regions as well. China and India could have argued this point
> > in Asia, others in LAC, others still in Europe. Nobody has done so.
>
> Right.  All of the other regions have more countries than seats.  NA is
> different.
>

How would that be different? The other regions seek to guarantee that
no one country can monopolise the ALAC seats. That is what the
provisions they have adopted effectively does. It would have the same
effect in North America.

> > English-centric. I would ask you all to consider the message that
> > would be sent if North America were to adopt less diversity guarantees
> > than any other region.
>
> No other region has language that guarantees seats to specific countries.
> That's about the most anti-diversity approach I can imagine.
>

That's one way to interpret it. The other is that requiring different
countries to be represented guarantees that BOTH countries in the
region have a seat at the table.

> R's,
> John
>


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