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

["Asaad Y. Alnajjar - Millennium Inc." <alnajjar@any-dns.com>]

We need to increase the number of regions and allow each region to evolve and
expand to parallel paths of the other regions.

For example, The Middle East, it has been always included with Asia/Africa and
this caused massive delay and damage to advancing the Arabic Domain Name
standardization and the official launch of Arabic URLs.

Many of us did in fact reach out to ICANN since the year 2001 and had repeatedly
explained this need, however, no genuine action has taken place nor any real
effort shown to even consider this in the near future. In the end what will
happen is each group will independently develop their own regardless of ICANN's
regions.

Regards,

Asaad Alnajjar
CEO Millennium Inc.
Founding member MINC / AINC






----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Schneiders" <marc@fuchsia.bijt.net>
To: <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 7:24 AM
Subject: [ga] Are the Falkland Islands and Bermuda in Europe?


> 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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