That's exactly where the whole story started, few years ago, to bring GP and MQ into Europe. I tried my best to make the point htat it was not a wise idea, but was unsuccessful. _____ From: euro-als-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:euro-als-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of jam@jacquelinemorris.com Sent: 07 February 2007 15:13 To: alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [EURO-ALS] [ALAC] ACTION ITEM: Consultation on makeup ofICANN Regions underway I've sent the email on to some Caribbean contacts - there's the same concern from Guadeloupe and Martinique (apparently currently France) Jacqueline Quoting Wendy Seltzer <wendy@seltzer.com>:
Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
Just a reminder, there is an open consultation on the Geographic Regions of ICANN, and whether the regions should be changed.
The At-Large community's views would be welcomed - this point was actually reinforced to me today by Paul Twomey amongst others.
Might I suggest at least two points which could be communicated, these two points being ones I have heard mentioned by others, and not being personal observations?
1) Some member-states of the European Union are located in regions outside of Europe, which ought to be changed. In fact, candidate states of the EU might also be better situated within the European region than in others (Turkey comes to mind as an obvious example of this); 2) The Asia-Pacific region is currently enormous. I have heard it said in particular that some representatives of Middle-Eastern groups believe it ought to be a region of it's own, not in the APAC region.
I encouraged our Puerto Rican ALS applicants to comment directly, but we should further recall that at least some of them feel they'd be better served by participating in the LAC region.
--Wendy bracing for the set of bounces from regional lists...
For the full text of the consultation announcement, please visit http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-rev-28nov06.htm.
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