[Chapter-delegates] A new top-level domain: .cat

[Norbert Klein]

Rosa Delgado wrote:

>I join Fred in congratulating all the people who worked hard for the
>past 2 years in the "CAT" initiative.   
>
>Rosa
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org
>[mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] On Behalf Of Fred
>Baker
>Sent: Tuesday, 20 September 2005 00:10
>To: Miquel Strubell Trueta
>Cc: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org; f.huhardeaux at a-e-r.org;
>jd at isoc-cat.org; davythhicks at yahoo.co.uk
>Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] A new top-level domain: .cat
>
>
>congratulations to all who have been involved.
>
>On Sep 16, 2005, at 7:48 AM, Miquel Strubell Trueta wrote:
>  
>
>>Dear friends round the world,
>>
>>You may be interested to know that ICANN decided, on September
>>15th, to
>>endorse the proposed .CAT sTLD Registry Services Agreement.
>>
>>http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/cat/proposed-cat-agmt-09aug05.pdf
>>(PDF)
>>
>>This means that the Catalan-speaking community, whose seven million 
>>speakers live autochthonously in Andorra, France and Italy, as well as in Spain, will now be identifiable on the Net.
>>
>>ISOC-CAT, as one of the promoters of the project, wishes to share its 
>>satisfaction with the wider internet society.
>>
>>    
>>
May I ask - for my own education on this subject, as I was not aware: 
roughly, what percentage of the Catalan speaking population lives in 
Andorra, France, Italy as well as in Spain, and especially in Cataluña? 
And about how many people are Catalan speaking?

We may get asked about such possibilities also in different contexts, so 
it would be good to have some reference numbers from .cat

Thanks,

Norbert Klein
Cambodia