[lac-discuss-en] ICANN Geographic Regions Working Group Presentation from Singapore

[Dev Anand Teelucksingh]

Dear All,

At the ICANN meeting in Singapore, the Geographic Regions Review
Working Group gave a presentation to ALAC on its latest efforts to
produce a Final Report on Geographic Regions in ICANN.

The presentation can be viewed at
http://singapore41.icann.org/meetings/singapore2011/presentation-geo-regions-23jun11-en.pdf

The ICANN Geographic Regions Working Group also had its own meeting in
Singapore ; the audio from that meeting can be found at
http://singapore41.icann.org/node/24625

One of the provisional recommendations for the Geographic Regions
final report is to allocate countries in regions as allocated by the
Regional Internet Registries or RIRs. Currently there are 33 countries
in the LAC region as recognized by ICANN.

If the RIR structure was adopted for the LAC region, there would be 5
countries added to the LAC region from the European Region:
* Netherland Antilles
* Aruba
* Falkland Islands
* French Guiana
* South Georgia & S.Sandwich Islands

However, 9 countries from the LAC region would be removed from the LAC
region to be added to the North American region:
* Antigua & Barbuda
* Barbados
* Bahamas
* Dominica
* Grenada
* Jamaica
* Saint Kitts & Nevis
* Saint Lucia
* St. Vincent & the Grenadines

Other possible provisional recommendations include introducing
temporary or long term Special Interest Groups for groups of countries
with shared interests such as Small Island States or Caribbean
countries. Such Groups would not be part of the ICANN decision making
structure, but could lobby for support of official representatives.

Given the impact of the work being done by the Geographic Regions WG
to LACRALO, it is important that comments be sent to the WG before the
WG issues a final report.


Kind Regards,

Dev Anand Teelucksingh
LACRALO Secretariat