Dear All, As discussed during the EURALO call yesterday, we are now calling for volunteers to help develop the EURALO position on ICANN’s Geographic Regions. The first task will be to provide input for the public consultation on the interim report of the Geographic Regions Review Working Group which ends on 30 January 2011. However, the working group will remain active even after the close of the consultation period and prepare a more comprehensive position paper in view of the final Geographic Review report. In addition to issues of direct concern to EURALO, such as the membership criteria for the European region, we will also look at the global implications of ICANN’s geographic model. In light of the shift in world population and, in particular, the world’s Internet users during the past 10 years, a re-assessment of ICANN’s geographic regions seems adequate. Background material: You can find important background material, including the recording of the Geographic Regions workshop in Cartagena and a PPT presentation given by Cheryl Langdon-Orr, on the At-Large Geographic Regions Review Workspace at: https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/Interim+Report+of+Geographic+Reg... Current members of the EURALO working group: Olivier Crépin-Leblond Wolf Ludwig Yjrö Länsipuro For anybody interested in joining us, we created a Doodle poll to find a suitable date and time for discussion – please enter your availabilities or preferences below: http://doodle.com/aazherwmx6pycxxt If we are a small group with Skype connections each, we could do it in a Skype group call. Please reply to this email if you would like to join this working group. Thanks and kind regards, Matthias Langenegger and Wolf Ludwig comunica-ch phone +41 79 204 83 87 Skype: Wolf-Ludwig www.comunica-ch.net Digitale Allmend http://blog.allmend.ch - EURALO - ICANN's Regional At-Large Organisation http://euralo.org