My understanding was that ICANN's Geographic Regions Strategy (which holds that there are five geographic regions) was developed by the cross-community Geographic Regions Review working group, so I don't really understand why GSE has its own, distinct set of regions which differs from those found in the ICANN bylaws?

Ayden 


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On Friday, February 1, 2019 6:32 PM, Marika Konings <marika.konings@icann.org> wrote:

Dear All,

 

In relation to a question previously received in relation to the regions referred to in the report, please note that:

 

“The Middle East is not one of the ICANN’s 5 geographic regions, but it is one of the regions covered by the Global Stakeholder Engagement (GSE) team, and it has its own regional engagement strategy developed by the community. Information in the report below comes from the GSE team, hence it’s been reported per each of the GSE regions. ICANN has 5 regional offices, one of which is in Istanbul and it serves Middle East and Africa (MEA) region.”

 

Best regards,

 

Marika

 

From: council <council-bounces@gnso.icann.org> on behalf of "Drazek, Keith via council" <council@gnso.icann.org>
Reply-To: "Drazek, Keith" <kdrazek@verisign.com>
Date: Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 13:15
To: "council@gnso.icann.org" <council@gnso.icann.org>
Subject: [council] FW: [So-ac-sg-cleaders] Global Legislative & Regulatory (GLR) Report - 3rd Release

 

FYI

 

From: So-ac-sg-cleaders <so-ac-sg-cleaders-bounces@icann.org> On Behalf Of David Olive
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2019 2:14 PM
To: so-ac-sg-cleaders@icann.org
Cc: Luna Madi <luna.madi@icann.org>; Susanna Bennett <susanna.bennett@icann.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [So-ac-sg-cleaders] Global Legislative & Regulatory (GLR) Report - 3rd Release

 

The announcement and the report have been published:

 

Announcement: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2019-01-31-en [icann.org]

 

Report: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/legislative-regulatory-30jan19-en.pdf [icann.org]

 

The report has also been added to the Legislative / Regulatory Reports page here under 2019: https://www.icann.org/legislative-report-2019 [icann.org]

 

 

Sent from my iPhone

 

David A. Olive
Senior Vice President

Policy Development Support

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)