[Chapter-delegates] Request for participation in ISOC survey- Proposed New Initiatives ISOC workplan

[Alejandro Pisanty]

Hi,

at the risk of sounding too candid, the best we should strive for is to 
use the regions division of some other, somehow better qualified, 
authority.

The United Nations Statistics Division and other bodies like that have and 
use regional classifications of varying degrees of granularity. One of 
those is in use in ICANN, for example, though it is admittedly the 
broadest one, and it wouldn't work for our needs.

What we in Chapters can do is go study and quickly forward an opinion on 
which fits each one's region.

Certainly for Mexico, as one of you has asked, there are many choices 
depending on what the needs are. So we are in North America, Mesoamerica, 
Latin America, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Pacific Rim, the Gulf 
of Mexico Coast, and in Ibero-america (a class not much used in English) 
which encompasses both Latin America, at least parts of the Caribbean, and 
the Iberic Peninsula ie Spain, Andorra, and Portugal.

Where would some of you rather place us? ;-).

Alejandro Pisanty


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UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Narelle Clark wrote:

> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:55:57 +1100
> From: Narelle Clark <Narelle.Clark at optus.com.au>
> To: Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Request for participation in ISOC	survey
>     	Proposed New Initiatives ISOC workplan
> 
>
> Please excuse my jocular interruption here, but given Anne is (I think)
> Australian it is no wonder she is confused.
>
> We Austalians are used to the concept of 'one continent one nation',
> though most of us do genuinely try to respect and recognise the many
> different cultures we embrace.
>
> :-)
>
> I trust you will discuss and determine what the best groupings are. I
> presume the regionalisation is to make the individual lists shorter, and
> group resources??
>
>
> Narelle
> VP ISOC-AU speaking purely personally
>
>
>> From: Wladyslaw Majewski
>> Sent: Friday, 16 November 2007 10:35 AM
>>
>> Dear Anne,
>>>
>>> http://www.isoc.org/isoc/mission/initiative/chapters.shtml
>>
>> I regret I cannot respond to above survey because I am unable
>> to identify region where my country is supposed to belong.
>>
>> Two entries ("Western Europe" and "CEE/Russia") refer to
>> ancient divisions discoutinued in current century.
>
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