Dear Ahlam, Thank you for taking the time to contribute to the statement. The name of the strategy working group "MEAC SWG" was decided by the community when the group was formed to work on the strategy. As for the ME region according to an email sent by Fahd in relation to this matter the ICANN, definition of “Middle East” as per the engagement within the Global Stakeholder Engagement (GSE) Team includes the 22 Arab States, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Fahd said " The mentioned 26 countries were included as part of the “Middle East” we cover due to geographical, linguistic, and cultural reasons." Baher also sent an email confirming the above and explaining why the SWG is called "MEAC" . To conclude the ME region as defined and understood by the ICANN community includes all 26 countries and therefore the name is inclusive. When we refer to the strategy working group we need to use its name, which as explained was determined by the working group. This issue in relation to the statement was raised in earlier emails and therefore were the above correspondence. I hope I was able to explain the reason we call it the ME space and we refer to the SWG as the "MEAC" working group. Kind regards Hadia Eng. Hadia Elminiawi (M.Sc.) Director, DNS-Entrepreneurship Center [Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/268513_180152888707645_7698168_n.jpg][logo] National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority Tel: +202 3534 4392 Fax: +202 3537 4000 Email: hadia@tra.gov.eg<https://mail.dnsec.eg/owa/redir.aspx?C=8f4aa197b9f840be8139d76b29a0df99&URL=...> From: Ahlam Abu-Jadallah [mailto:ahlam.abujadallah@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2019 11:26 AM To: Nadira Alaraj Cc: middle-east@icann.org; MEAC-SWG; Hadia Abdelsalam Mokhtar EL miniawi; Hadia El Miniawi; Tijani BENJEMAA Subject: Re: [MEAC SWG] 2 days to finalize the comments on the ME statement Dear Nadia, Thank you for being Hadia the pen-holder of drafting the ME Statement. Its good and contains all the issues related to our community. I have only one comment, why we say ME in some places and then refer to MEAC SWG in other statements? Can we unify the name of our community to be MEAC as we agreed. Best Regards, Ahlam On Oct 11, 2019, at 9:14 PM, Nadira Alaraj <nadira.araj@gmail.com> wrote: Dear ME Community, Greetings to all, In addition to what would be discussed at the ME Statement at ICANN 66, the ME Space Lead Team along with the pen-holder Hadia El-Miniawi would like to take this opportunity to post the ME statement as public comment. Given the fact the closing date of the public comment is on 14 Oct 2019 23:59 UTC. We appreciate taking the time until Sunday 13 October 23:59 UTC to review the attached statement and provide your comment if you have any by replying to this email or through the following Google Doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/166dt6mzneVwT2yB2P7XN-_Ol3uMo-o3kYaaE4t6F... Best regards, ME Space Lead Team -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MEAC SWG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to icann-meac-swg+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com<mailto:icann-meac-swg+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/icann-meac-swg/CAJdpWNC3RQcWe8ekqq%2BvoYBxuWOWqzZTtMv4dWm2b91n%2Br4NSA%40mail.gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/icann-meac-swg/CAJdpWNC3RQcWe8ekqq%2BvoYBxuWOWqzZTtMv4dWm2b91n%2Br4NSA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. <ME Space Statement_final draft.docx>
