Eduardo, One of the unintended consequences of the construction of the "North American Region" is quite recent. Several ICANN ByLaws entities agreed to form a Joint DNS Security and Stability Analysis Working Group (DSSA-WG). The call for volunteers was circulated on several lists, though not this one (North American regional At Large participation may have been overlooked, or not sought). One of the DSSA-WG chartering ByLaws entities is the ccNSO. A significant portion of the subject matter (DNS Security and Stability Analysis) experts are residents of North America. A significant portion of the subject matter (DNS Security and Stability Analysis) experts are not employed by Verisign, Afilias, or NeuStar, or employed by CIRA or NeuStar. Everyone is entitled to their unsupported speculative opinion, my unsupported speculative opinion is that these three of these four corporate entities are unlikely to recommend independent subject matter experts to this working group. The existence of PR in the "North American Region" allows that ccNSO member to recommend one or more North American resident subject matter experts to the DSSA-WG. Were MX currently allocated to the same region, it too could recommend one or more North American resident subject matter experts to the DSSA-WG. The point of this note, which no one is obliged to read, is that the restriction of "North America" to two property managers, one with an issue relative to the majority Fracophone region of the continent, the other a for-profit corporation pursuing shareholder profit maximization goals, restricts, in the DSSA-WG case, basic access to DNS data of profound import to operational stability and policy making. A goal of accountability and transparency is difficult to achieve by first allocating control of access to information to as few as two operators, one very active in the pursuit of its own profits as a gTLD registry operator. "Diversity" should not shield any regime, or any for-profit operator, from scrutiny. Personally I appreciate greatly the independence of both the PR operator and the MX operator, and I'm honored to call their principles friends. Eric