Hello all, Some remarks: 1. Countries in NARALO Using http://www.icann.org/montreal/geo-regions-topic.htm we can see that the countries in ICANN's North American region include: * American Samoa * Canada * Guam * Northern Mariana Islands * Puerto Rico * United States Minor Outlying Islands * United States * Virgin Islands, U.S. 2. NARALO's official languages To answer Bret's remarks about languages, I agree that much of the communications in the NARALO community will be in English, as email list activity will most probably continue to be in English only. I also agree that in order not to unduly limit the org or person responsible for the secretariat function (which by the way should, in my view, be funded by ICANN), they should be allowed to rely on translation services. They should, however, be sensitive to multinlingual issues and be able to answer email and accept ALS applications in the official languages we will decide on for the NARALO. I suggested English and French for our official languages because they represent the union of official languages in Canada and the US. However, given the 6 other countries that are part of our region, we may need to define other official languages, as Samoan, Spanish and Philipinos (amongst others) are spoken in these other countries and may be considered official languages in them. Or we could wait to have ALS's from those countries and see then. In any case, I suggest we limit ourselves to official languages. 3. Responsibilities of the NARALO Regarding exactly what the NARALO will do, we should refer to Section 5 of the NARALO MOU. Points 5.1 and 5.2 (outreach) could allow for very broad-reaching activities, so the NARALO's role isn't necessarily as limited as electing ALAC reps and acting as an information relay between ICANN and ALS's. I guess it all depends on how much funding and energy ICANN/we are ready to spend, and where we want to take this thing. _________________________________________ Luc Faubert Conseiller en gouvernance TI et en gestion du changement / IT governance and change management consulting GFI Solutions +1 514 236 5129 <http://www.gfisolutions.com/> www.GFISolutions.com <http://www.gfisolutions.com/> www.LucFaubert.com <http://www.lucfaubert.com/>
that the countries in ICANN's North American region include:
* American Samoa * Canada * Guam * Northern Mariana Islands * Puerto Rico * United States Minor Outlying Islands * United States * Virgin Islands, U.S.
Not really. The countries in the NA region are the US and Canada. All of those little islands are included due to a peculiar ICANN rule that says that political dependencies are placed with the mother country rather than where they really are. Since they are all legally territories or the equivalent, if ICANN were being consistent, they'd list Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut separately, too, but they don't. I gather this was at the insistence of France which did not want DOM and TOM such as St. Pierre grouped with their physical neighbors. There is some chance that ICANN will revisit this rule in the near future so I would not make any big plans based on it. As far as languages go, I agree that for now it makes sense to do work in English and French. If ICANN realigns the boundaries with reality and moves Mexico into North America, we would add Spanish. Once we realize that there are only two countries, the ICANN rule that requires that both reps cannot be from the same country means that there has to be one Canadian and one American, which should streamline the selection process. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://johnlevine.com, Mayor "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.
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