This would also be appealing for inclusion of a significant proportion of US population.

On 6/5/07, Jacqueline A. Morris < jam@jacquelinemorris.com> wrote:
Given that Puerto Rico is in NA - should you add Spanish now anyway? There's
one ALS from Puerto Rico - ISOC PR.
Jacqueline

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From: John L [mailto:johnl@iecc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:48 AM
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> - Official languages: The USA (as stated by congress) is English, Canada's

> official languages (at a federal level) are English and French

The US has no official language.  But English is the de facto national
language.

In the discussions I've heard, we agreed that if ICANN reorganized the
regions to put Mexico into NA, we would add Spanish as a working langauge.

R's,
John

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