[NA-Discuss] Language

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

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On 6 Jun 2007, at 15:56, Jacqueline A. Morris wrote:

> Hi Nick
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> I thought that Jocob took comments from the Caribbean to collate –  
> I know there was a discussion on it. I can collate if that didn’t  
> happen…
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> Jacqueline
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> From: Nick Ashton-Hart [mailto:nick.ashton-hart at icann.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:19 AM
> To: jam at jacquelinemorris.com
> Cc: 'Evan Leibovitch'; ediaz at dconsultinggroup.com; 'NA Discuss'
> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Language
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> The region consultation is still going on - every month I'm asked  
> by someone within ICANN to get -SOME- response on that consultation  
> from the At-Large community.
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> At the moment, PR is in North America because of the regional  
> configuration of the ICANN Geographic Regions. If PR wants to move  
> to LAC, again, now would be the time to put that suggestion  
> forward....
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> On 6 Jun 2007, at 01:18, Jacqueline A. Morris wrote:
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> Actually, they did ask if they could be LACRALO members - LACRALO  
> determined
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> it had no issue accepting them if they wanted to be - but that was  
> last year
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> before there was movement on forming the NARALO.
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> But with regard to languages - if the agreement was for the official
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> languages of the members of the regions, then, as PR is a member of  
> the
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> region, Spanish should be included. No matter how many or how few  
> people
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> speak it.
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> ICANN did have a consultation going on the regional classification  
> a while
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> ago -I can check back to see what came of it - I don't recall seeing a
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> report or anything yet.
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> Jacqueline
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: Evan Leibovitch [mailto:evan at telly.org]
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 5:50 PM
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> To: jam at jacquelinemorris.com
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> Cc: 'Robert Guerra'; ediaz at dconsultinggroup.com; 'NA Discuss'
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> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Language
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> Jacqueline A. Morris wrote:
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> Well - from what I remember - feel free to correct - Puerto Rico is
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> officially bilingual, isn't it? And it is part of NARALO. I leave  
> it up to
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> the Puerto Rican NARALO member to decide whether to take this  
> forward or
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> not. I believe that after the meeting in SJ, there will be more ALS
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> applicants from PR, so maybe then they can call for Spanish if they  
> want to.
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> Well, then you open the issue of why there should be a RALO with only
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> three participating jurisdictions.
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> Funny, elswehere in the world the RALO boundaries are drawn on
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> continental boundaries. Newcomers can only wonder about the politics
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> behind the decision to keep the Caribbean and Mexico out of North
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> America on ICANN's globe.
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> Of course, one other option is to ask the Puerto Rican ALSs if they'd
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> prefer to be part of the LAC-RALO
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> - Evan
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