<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>Actually, the ASO (comprised by the RIRs) have yet another different division of countries in geographic regions, even though being five of them. For instance, the Bahamas are served by ARIN, the RIR for North America, instead of LACNIC:<div class=""><a href="https://www.arin.net/knowledge/rirs/ARINcountries.html" class="">https://www.arin.net/knowledge/rirs/ARINcountries.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But if you look at the meetings division, it counts as Latin America:</div><div class=""><a href="https://meetings.icann.org/en/regions" class="">https://meetings.icann.org/en/regions</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Having GSE feature yet another set of regional divisions doesn't help solve the problem, but it doesn't come as a surprise. This was already a mess. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Rubens</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 1 Feb 2019, at 21:48, Ayden Férdeline <<a href="mailto:icann@ferdeline.com" class="">icann@ferdeline.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">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 class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><div class="">Ayden <br class=""></div></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-proton protonmail_signature_block-empty"><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐<br class=""></div><div class=""> On Friday, February 1, 2019 6:32 PM, Marika Konings <<a href="mailto:marika.konings@icann.org" class="">marika.konings@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class="protonmail_quote"><div class=""><p class="">Dear All,<br class=""></p><p class=""> <br class=""></p><p class="">In relation to a question previously received in relation to the regions referred to in the report, please note that:<br class=""></p><p class=""> <br class=""></p><p class=""><span style="" class="">“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 class=""></p><p class=""><span style="" class=""> </span><br class=""></p><p class=""><span style="" class="">Best regards,</span><br class=""></p><p class=""><span style="" class=""> </span><br class=""></p><p class=""><span style="" class="">Marika</span><br class=""></p><p class=""> <br class=""></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" class=""><p class=""><b class=""><span style="" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt" class="">From: </span></span></b><span style="" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt" class="">council <<a href="mailto:council-bounces@gnso.icann.org" class="">council-bounces@gnso.icann.org</a>> on behalf of "Drazek, Keith via council" <<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org" class="">council@gnso.icann.org</a>><br class=""> <b class="">Reply-To: </b>"Drazek, Keith" <<a href="mailto:kdrazek@verisign.com" class="">kdrazek@verisign.com</a>><br class=""> <b class="">Date: </b>Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 13:15<br class=""> <b class="">To: </b>"<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org" class="">council@gnso.icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org" class="">council@gnso.icann.org</a>><br class=""> <b class="">Subject: </b>[council] FW: [So-ac-sg-cleaders] Global Legislative & Regulatory (GLR) Report - 3rd Release</span></span></p></div><div class=""><p class=""> <br class=""></p></div><p class="">FYI<br class=""></p><p class=""> <br class=""></p><div class=""><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><b class="">From:</b> So-ac-sg-cleaders <<a href="mailto:so-ac-sg-cleaders-bounces@icann.org" class="">so-ac-sg-cleaders-bounces@icann.org</a>> <b class="">On Behalf Of </b>David Olive<br class=""></div><div class=""> <b class="">Sent:</b> Thursday, January 31, 2019 2:14 PM<br class=""></div><div class=""> <b class="">To:</b> <a href="mailto:so-ac-sg-cleaders@icann.org" class="">so-ac-sg-cleaders@icann.org</a><br class=""></div><div class=""> <b class="">Cc:</b> Luna Madi <<a href="mailto:luna.madi@icann.org" class="">luna.madi@icann.org</a>>; Susanna Bennett <<a href="mailto:susanna.bennett@icann.org" class="">susanna.bennett@icann.org</a>><br class=""></div><div class=""> <b class="">Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [So-ac-sg-cleaders] Global Legislative & Regulatory (GLR) Report - 3rd Release<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div><p class=""> <br class=""></p><div class=""><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class=""><div class=""><p class=""><span style="" class="">The announcement and the report have been published:</span><br class=""></p><p class=""><span style="" class=""> </span><br class=""></p><p class=""><span style="" class="">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=" class="">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2019-01-31-en
[icann.org]</a></span><br class=""></p><p class=""><span style="" class=""> </span><br class=""></p><p class=""><span style="" class="">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=" class="">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/legislative-regulatory-30jan19-en.pdf
[icann.org]</a></span><br class=""></p><p class=""><span style="" class=""> </span><br class=""></p><p class=""><span style="" class="">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=" class="">https://www.icann.org/legislative-report-2019
[icann.org]</a></span><br class=""></p><p class=""><span style="" class=""> </span><br class=""></p></div></blockquote><p class=""> <br class=""></p><div class=""><p class="">Sent from my iPhone<br class=""></p><div class=""><p class=""> <br class=""></p></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">David A. Olive<br class=""></div><div class=""> Senior Vice President<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size:13pt" class="">Policy Development Support</span><br class=""></p></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">council mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org" class="">council@gnso.icann.org</a><br class="">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/council<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>