<div>My understanding was that ICANN's Geographic Regions Strategy (which holds that there are five geographic regions) was developed by the cross-community Geographic Regions Review working group, so I don't really understand why GSE has its own, distinct set of regions which differs from those found in the ICANN bylaws?<br></div><div><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><div>Ayden  <br></div></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-proton protonmail_signature_block-empty"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐<br></div><div> On Friday, February 1, 2019 6:32 PM, Marika Konings <marika.konings@icann.org> wrote:<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote type="cite" class="protonmail_quote"><div><p>Dear All,<br></p><p> <br></p><p>In relation to a question previously received in relation to the regions referred to in the report, please note that:<br></p><p> <br></p><p><span style="color:black">“The Middle East is not one of the ICANN’s 5 geographic regions, but it is one of the regions covered by the Global Stakeholder Engagement (GSE) team, and it has its own regional engagement strategy developed by
 the community. Information in the report below comes from the GSE team, hence it’s been reported per each of the GSE regions. ICANN has 5 regional offices, one of which is in Istanbul and it serves Middle East and Africa (MEA) region.”</span><br></p><p><span style="color:black"> </span><br></p><p><span style="color:black">Best regards,</span><br></p><p><span style="color:black"> </span><br></p><p><span style="color:black">Marika</span><br></p><p> <br></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p><b><span style="color:black"><span style="font-size:12pt">From: </span></span></b><span style="color:black"><span style="font-size:12pt">council <council-bounces@gnso.icann.org> on behalf of "Drazek, Keith via council" <council@gnso.icann.org><br> <b>Reply-To: </b>"Drazek, Keith" <kdrazek@verisign.com><br> <b>Date: </b>Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 13:15<br> <b>To: </b>"council@gnso.icann.org" <council@gnso.icann.org><br> <b>Subject: </b>[council] FW: [So-ac-sg-cleaders] Global Legislative & Regulatory (GLR) Report - 3rd Release</span></span></p></div><div><p> <br></p></div><p>FYI<br></p><p> <br></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p></p><div><b>From:</b> So-ac-sg-cleaders <so-ac-sg-cleaders-bounces@icann.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>David Olive<br></div><div> <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 31, 2019 2:14 PM<br></div><div> <b>To:</b> so-ac-sg-cleaders@icann.org<br></div><div> <b>Cc:</b> Luna Madi <luna.madi@icann.org>; Susanna Bennett <susanna.bennett@icann.org><br></div><div> <b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [So-ac-sg-cleaders] Global Legislative & Regulatory (GLR) Report - 3rd Release<br></div><p></p></div></div><p> <br></p><div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p><span style="color:black">The announcement and the report have been published:</span><br></p><p><span style="color:black"> </span><br></p><p><span style="color:black">Announcement: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_news_announcement-2D2019-2D01-2D31-2Den&d=DwMGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=7_PQAir-9nJQ2uB2cWiTDDDo5Hfy5HL9rSTe65iXLVM&m=3vmoZE3LxzVAoA4Ve7mVCZVegvtF-9W_82NB3ydWiY0&s=55hYbA4PwfHm7UwpuoPv51Fg8YUbJIQn3hcIEWCx56c&e=">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2019-01-31-en
 [icann.org]</a></span><br></p><p><span style="color:black"> </span><br></p><p><span style="color:black">Report: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_en_system_files_files_legislative-2Dregulatory-2D30jan19-2Den.pdf&d=DwMGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=7_PQAir-9nJQ2uB2cWiTDDDo5Hfy5HL9rSTe65iXLVM&m=3vmoZE3LxzVAoA4Ve7mVCZVegvtF-9W_82NB3ydWiY0&s=8Mbl0haPHHDfMyMO5CHtc63-W0fPXG6wYj08MXlGHus&e=">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/legislative-regulatory-30jan19-en.pdf
 [icann.org]</a></span><br></p><p><span style="color:black"> </span><br></p><p><span style="color:black">The report has also been added to the Legislative / Regulatory Reports page here under 2019: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_legislative-2Dreport-2D2019&d=DwMGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=7_PQAir-9nJQ2uB2cWiTDDDo5Hfy5HL9rSTe65iXLVM&m=3vmoZE3LxzVAoA4Ve7mVCZVegvtF-9W_82NB3ydWiY0&s=XxvdoMIJFJg-w-_N78eoMqnGgTTq2zoKfKzCJQ6ZR5Y&e=">https://www.icann.org/legislative-report-2019
 [icann.org]</a></span><br></p><p><span style="color:black"> </span><br></p></div></blockquote><p> <br></p><div><p>Sent from my iPhone<br></p><div><p> <br></p></div><div><p></p><div>David A. Olive<br></div><div> Senior Vice President<br></div><p></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:13pt">Policy Development Support</span><br></p></div><div><p></p><div>Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)<br></div><div> <br></div><div> <br></div><div> <br></div><div> <br></div><p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>