Re: [ga] Are the Falkland Islands and Bermuda in Europe?

[Erick Iriarte Ahon <faia@amauta.rcp.net.pe>]

Hi Marc

we publicated an article about this in LatinoamerICANN: 
(http://latinoamericann.derecho.org.ar/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=295&mode=thread&order=1&thold=0) 


and some interesting things are:

 From LAC to Europe: .ai (Anguilla); .an (Antillas Holandesas); .aw 
(Aruba); .fk (Falkland Islands (Malvinas)); .gf (Guayana Francesa); .gp 
(Guadalupe); .gs (South Georgia y the South Sandwich Islands); .ky (Islas 
Kayman); .ms (Montserrat); .tc (Turks y Caicos Islands); .vg (Islas 
Virgenes Britanicas)

 From LAC to North America ??: .pr (Puerto Rico); .VI (Islas Virgenes USA)

Notes:

1. No pasaron nada para Africa
2. No pasaron nada Asia Pacifico
3. Quién dijo que no había colonialismo en el mundo?
4. Por qué no hay ningun país de otra región que ahora pase a ser LAC?
5. Porque de Africa y de Asia tambien pasan para Europa o Norte América?

Erick



At 04:24 p.m. 08/06/2003 +0200, Marc Schneiders wrote:
>The 5 regions used by ICANN to ascertain geographical representation have
>made me uncomfortable for several reasons. One of these is that they are
>not nearly of equal size in whatever way you measure that size
>(inhabitants, internet users, size of territory).
>
>A few days ago a revised version of the allocation of countries and
>territories has been put up on the ICANN website. It will be discussed in
>Montreal.
>
>http://www.icann.org/montreal/geo-regions-topic.html
>
>If I understand it, Bermuda and the Falkland Islands are now in Europe.
>The same is true for some French territories. Please, note that the
>European Union does think that some of these countries/territories are
>in Europe and others not. (http://europa.eu.int/abc/maps/index_nl.htm)
>
>The reason seems to be the citizenship of the people who live there.  I
>don't know about Bermuda and the Falklands, but the two former Dutch
>colonies, which are also in 'Europe' now, elect their own parliament etc.
>They are independent politically.  The Dutch government does not speak for
>Aruba or the Netherlands Antilles. It fights with them occasionally.
>
>Is this change to the regions not a step back to colonialism?
>
>Anyway, what I would really like to see, is a more balanced regional
>division. Look at the 'facts' (population and territory) of the present
>regions within ICANN:
>
>Asia-Pacific                    3798            15,568
>Africa                           840            11,698
>Europa                          728             8,875
>Latin America-Caribbean         531             7,964
>North America                   319             7,699
>
>(Source: http://www.prb.org/pdf/WorldPopulationDS02_Eng.pdf)
>
>The proposed changes don't influence these numbers much as they concern
>mainly small islands. There is no improvement in them, as far as I can
>see.
>
>Some may find it important to take the number of internet users into
>account. Here are some data (for what they are worth):
>
>Europe          190
>Asia/Pacific    187
>US/Canada       183
>Latin America   33
>Africa          6
>Middle East     5
>
>(Source: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/how_many_online/)
>
>This would suggest 3 regions not 5:
>
>America                         216
>Europe, Africa                  196
>Asia/Pacific/Middle East        192
>
>
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