Dear All, The ICANN Geographic Regions Review Working Group has published its Draft Final Report for comment. The draft final report outlines specific recommendations from the Working Group to the ICANN Board regarding how the present Geographic Regions Framework can be modified to ensure that the organizational principles of geographic and cultural diversity are honoured and maintained. A key recommendation from the Working Group is for ICANN to adopt its own Geographic Regions Framework based upon the assignment of countries to regions that currently underlies the organization of the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). The new Geographic Regions Framework would govern the make-up of the ICANN Board and should serve as the default for other parts of the ICANN community. The Working Group further recommends that the ICANN Board give the ICANN Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees the opportunity to either directly apply the new framework to their operations or to present the Board with their own particular diversity methodology that is more appropriate to their unique operational and community characteristics. There would be significant changes for LACRALO if the proposed Geographic Framework is adopted by ICANN and ALAC. Currently, there are 33 countries in the LAC region as recognized by ICANN. Under the proposed Geographic Regions Framework (assign countries to regions as allocated to RIRs), 5 countries would be added to the LAC region from the European Region: * Netherland Antilles * Aruba * Falkland Islands * French Guiana * South Georgia & S.Sandwich Islands and 9 countries would be removed from the LAC region to be added to the North American region: * Antigua & Barbuda * Barbados * Bahamas * Dominica * Grenada * Jamaica * Saint Kitts & Nevis * Saint Lucia * St. Vincent & the Grenadines The Draft Final Report is available in English, Spanish and French at http://www.icann.org/en/topics/geographic-regions/geo-regions-draft-final-re... http://www.icann.org/es/topics/geographic-regions/geo-regions-draft-final-re... http://www.icann.org/fr/topics/geographic-regions/geo-regions-draft-final-re... Kind Regards, Dev Anand Teelucksingh LACRALO Secretariat