On 1/28/11 5:02 AM, Thomas Lowenhaupt wrote:
Regarding the Geographic Regions Statement, three points:
1. Knowing shamefully little about indigenous peoples, I draw your attention to those possibly trans-national/regional peoples that inhabit the most northern part of our planet. How can the DNS serve their needs?
There is the Inuit Cicumpolar Congress, which includes Siberian Yupick. A friend of my attended the most recent ICC games (but I didn't get a tee-shirt). In the north connectivity is difficult as geo-stationary satellites are very low on the southern horizon. Layer 1 and 2 (physical and link) onnectivity is more of a concern than layer 3 (routing) and layer 4 (DNS) services. The Northern European Sami are not ICC participants as far as I know. In addition to Avri another resource is the director of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, a non-Sami interested in Sami issues. But you've asked the right question -- is there a there there (to borrow from Gertrude Stein's comment about Oakland California) in the context of regional constructions of similarity of material condition? I think so, hence the mention I initially made for the Greenland Home Rule government. Obviously, there are firmly held opinions to the contrary as well. Eric