[NA-Discuss] Language

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

Evan:

With respect to the regional configurations, this originally went off  
of a UN list, where territories attached to a country were in the  
region of the country. For this reason, we have French islands in the  
Caribbean as a part of the European Region, etc.

On 5 Jun 2007, at 22:50, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> Jacqueline A. Morris wrote:
>
>> Well - from what I remember - feel free to correct - Puerto Rico  
>> is officially bilingual, isn't it? And it is part of NARALO. I  
>> leave it up to the Puerto Rican NARALO member to decide whether to  
>> take this forward or not. I believe that after the meeting in SJ,  
>> there will be more ALS applicants from PR, so maybe then they can  
>> call for Spanish if they want to.
>>
>
> Well, then you open the issue of why there should be a RALO with only
> three participating jurisdictions.
>
> Funny, elswehere in the world the RALO boundaries are drawn on
> continental boundaries. Newcomers can only wonder about the politics
> behind the decision to keep the Caribbean and Mexico out of North
> America on ICANN's globe.
>
> Of course, one other option is to ask the Puerto Rican ALSs if they'd
> prefer to be part of the LAC-RALO
>
> - Evan
>
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