Thanks for the clarification. No opposition to your statement. --Wendy On 01/27/2011 02:29 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
Hi Wendy,
The pestering is not coming from staff.
It's coming from corners that are looking to put forward an ITU-like model that lumps the entirety of the Western Hemisphere under a single "Americas" region.
In this regard, I've been told that even a "hold the status quo" message is preferable to "no comment" which implies " everyone else can do whatever they want"
So I'm propose this wording:
"NARALO finds that the current situation in this region is satisfactory but encourages the work of other At-Large regions in which the current system may be seen to require change.We would strongly oppose any regional model (such as the ITU) that would amalgamate all of the Western Hemisphere into a single "Americas" region."
Is anyone here *in favour* of merging the two Americas regions?
- Evan
On 27 January 2011 14:17, Wendy Seltzer <wendy@seltzer.com> wrote:
In that case, I think NA should affirmatively say nothing, despite staff's pestering.
--Wendy
On 01/27/2011 02:07 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
On 27 January 2011 12:18, Gareth Shearman <shearman@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
This sounds about right to me.
The Caribbean issues do need to be addressed in the process however.
I have been told that this issue is actually being debated as an issue internal to LACRALO, and I'm personally hesitant to get NA involved. The Caribbean contingent is not known for its shyness, and will no doubt make its interests well known.
In casual conversations I have been asked for my personal opinion, if I would foresee any hostility or opposition *if* some LAC members wanted to join NA. I replied that I did not believe any such hostility would exist -- but I clearly said that as representative of nothing beyond my own viewpoint.
I'm very conscious of the fine line between meddling and wanting to be helpful. Maybe I'm being a little too self-silencing, but the rest of the ICANN world already sees itself as getting lectured to by North Americans. IMO, if we have something to say about someone else's regional business it had *better* be both novel and useful.
- Evan