Actually, the ASO (comprised by the RIRs) have yet another different division of countries in geographic regions, even though being five of them. For instance, the Bahamas are served by ARIN, the RIR for North America, instead of LACNIC: https://www.arin.net/knowledge/rirs/ARINcountries.html <https://www.arin.net/knowledge/rirs/ARINcountries.html> But if you look at the meetings division, it counts as Latin America: https://meetings.icann.org/en/regions <https://meetings.icann.org/en/regions> Having GSE feature yet another set of regional divisions doesn't help solve the problem, but it doesn't come as a surprise. This was already a mess. Rubens

On 1 Feb 2019, at 21:48, Ayden Férdeline <icann@ferdeline.com> wrote:

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

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ 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] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_news_announcement-2D2019-2D01-2D31-2Den&d=DwMGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=7_PQAir-9nJQ2uB2cWiTDDDo5Hfy5HL9rSTe65iXLVM&m=3vmoZE3LxzVAoA4Ve7mVCZVegvtF-9W_82NB3ydWiY0&s=55hYbA4PwfHm7UwpuoPv51Fg8YUbJIQn3hcIEWCx56c&e=>

Report: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/legislative-regulatory-30jan19-e... [icann.org] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_en_system_files_files_legislative-2Dregulatory-2D30jan19-2Den.pdf&d=DwMGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=7_PQAir-9nJQ2uB2cWiTDDDo5Hfy5HL9rSTe65iXLVM&m=3vmoZE3LxzVAoA4Ve7mVCZVegvtF-9W_82NB3ydWiY0&s=8Mbl0haPHHDfMyMO5CHtc63-W0fPXG6wYj08MXlGHus&e=>

The report has also been added to the Legislative / Regulatory Reports page here under 2019: https://www.icann.org/legislative-report-2019 [icann.org] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_legislative-2Dreport-2D2019&d=DwMGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=7_PQAir-9nJQ2uB2cWiTDDDo5Hfy5HL9rSTe65iXLVM&m=3vmoZE3LxzVAoA4Ve7mVCZVegvtF-9W_82NB3ydWiY0&s=XxvdoMIJFJg-w-_N78eoMqnGgTTq2zoKfKzCJQ6ZR5Y&e=>

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