Yes, I think that somebody mentioned quite some time ago that there are more Spanish speakers in the US than there are people in Canada…  So, it would definitely make sense.  If this is something that we can do WITHOUT taking a separate vote on the OP Principles, we should do it.  If not, that should be right near the top of the list (along with making things better for individuals) to get changed in our first year of operation.

Or is this something for our MOU?  In which case, we DO have time to discuss it as it deserves to be discussed.

D

Darlene A. Thompson

Community Access Program Administrator

Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP

c/o P.O. Box 1000, Station 910

Iqaluit, NU  X0A 0H0

Phone:  (867) 975-6531

Fax:  (867) 979-8870

dthompson@gov.nu.ca

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From: na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Michael Maranda
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 12:21 PM
To: jam@jacquelinemorris.com
Cc: NA Discuss
Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Voting Update

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

-----Original Message-----
From: John L [mailto:johnl@iecc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:48 AM
To: Robert Guerra
Cc: NA Discuss
Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Voting Update

> - 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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