Great to see you taking the initiative to get comments underway, Ayden.

I added some comments to the Google doc.

Personally, I believe that the statement overstates the significance of geographic diversity when what we are really interested in is overall population diversity, which might involve language and other culture, religion or ideology, economic status, etc. Geography is but a rough proxy for social differences, and often a bad one. I would like to see a comment raising consciousness about this. Given how arbitrary some of these dividing lines are (e.g., is Mexico North America – which it is geographically – or LAC, or which tiny Caribbean island gets placed where) It might clarify things to state the actual purpose of these regional divisions.

 

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Hello, team- 

 

I have drafted a response to the final report of the Geographic Regions Review Working Group. Comments are due in about 25 days time but if we do decide to reply, I hope we can submit something in advance of that deadline. I've shared my first draft on Google Docs here and have also attached it to this email for those without access to that website.

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-c2vVT2DNO73l89wfZTvKtY70rmaid8g7XBO-Vto9SM/edit  

 

You can read the Working Group's final report here: 

https://www.icann.org/public-comments/geo-regions-2015-12-23-en 

 

I suspect that we will have a wide birth of opinions on this topic, so please know that I'm very much open to reviewing or rethinking anything that appears in this early draft. I am also new to writing public comments like this one so welcome any feedback you would be kind enough to share. I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

 

Best wishes,


Ayden Férdeline

 

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