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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Just to note that the region “<b>Middle East</b>” does not have an agreed upon definition by any institute or organization. There are different definitions that include a different set of countries.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>For ICANN, the definition of “<b>Middle East</b>” as per our engagement within the Global Stakeholder Engagement (GSE) Team includes the 22 Arab States, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The mentioned 26 countries were included as part of the “<b>Middle East</b>” we cover due to geographical, linguistic, and cultural reasons.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Unless there is a strong reason to do otherwise, I’d suggest we stick to the term “<b>Middle East</b>” to reflect the 26 countries mentioned earlier.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Fahd<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Middle-East <middle-east-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Nadira Alaraj <nadira.araj@gmail.com><br><b>Date: </b>Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 4:10 PM<br><b>To: </b>Hadia El Miniawi <Hadia@tra.gov.eg><br><b>Cc: </b>"middle-east@icann.org" <middle-east@icann.org><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ME ICANN] Montreal ME Space statement first draft for your comment : MEAC or ME Space??<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Hadia and Foad,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Here what I have replied on the thread with some editing and addition.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The "ME Space" was approved by Baher and Fahd and the MEAC-SWG since the inception of ME Space.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The reasoning that MEAC term is not being used to describe ICANN geographical subregion. Hence when ME Space sessions are scheduled in ICANN meeting it has to go per the common name.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This issue of MEAC was debated in length at the MEAC-SWG but this discussion lead no where. (MEAC-SWG emails are publicly available and you can search through it. Given the fact that some members objected on the use of MEAC).<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hence, I shall be careful of starting this discussion here and leaving the name as ME Space as the status quo.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Nadira <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Oct 8, 2019, 15:20 Hadia Abdelsalam Mokhtar EL miniawi <<a href="mailto:Hadia@tra.gov.eg">Hadia@tra.gov.eg</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Dear All,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>One issue that Foad puts forward on the google document and I think is worth discussing on the list is whether it should be the ME Space or the MEAC Space, some of the contributors to the document are from the wider ME east – the MEAC region. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>So my question to the list should it be the MEAC Space or the ME Space and why?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hadia </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> Nadira Alaraj [mailto:<a href="mailto:nadira.araj@gmail.com" target="_blank">nadira.araj@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 08, 2019 2:12 PM<br><b>To:</b> Hadia Abdelsalam Mokhtar EL miniawi<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ME ICANN] Montreal ME Space statement first draft for your comment</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Thank you Hadia </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I provided some replies to Fouad, </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>you can follow with them as well.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 3:10 PM Hadia Abdelsalam Mokhtar EL miniawi <<a href="mailto:Hadia@tra.gov.eg" target="_blank">Hadia@tra.gov.eg</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>It is resolved, I do have ownership</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> Hadia Abdelsalam Mokhtar EL miniawi <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 08, 2019 2:05 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Nadira Alaraj'<br><b>Cc:</b> Tijani BENJEMAA; <a href="mailto:middle-east@icann.org" target="_blank">middle-east@icann.org</a>; <a href="mailto:hadiaminiawi@yahoo.com" target="_blank">hadiaminiawi@yahoo.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [ME ICANN] Montreal ME Space statement first draft for your comment</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thank you</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hadia</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> Nadira Alaraj [mailto:<a href="mailto:nadira.araj@gmail.com" target="_blank">nadira.araj@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 08, 2019 2:04 PM<br><b>To:</b> Hadia Abdelsalam Mokhtar EL miniawi<br><b>Cc:</b> Tijani BENJEMAA; <a href="mailto:middle-east@icann.org" target="_blank">middle-east@icann.org</a>; <a href="mailto:hadiaminiawi@yahoo.com" target="_blank">hadiaminiawi@yahoo.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ME ICANN] Montreal ME Space statement first draft for your comment</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Dear Hadia,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I thought you have created a new document.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Let me check the Google document and see how to give you the ownership.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Best wishes <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Nadira <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On Tue, Oct 8, 2019, 14:37 Hadia Abdelsalam Mokhtar EL miniawi <<a href="mailto:Hadia@tra.gov.eg" target="_blank">Hadia@tra.gov.eg</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thank you Tijani for your updates. It is better that you put the edits on the word document as I do not have the right to accept on the google document. Zakir has made some edits that I was going to add to the original, but could not accept through the google document.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Kind regards</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hadia</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> Middle-East [mailto:<a href="mailto:middle-east-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank">middle-east-bounces@icann.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tijani BEN JEMAA<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 08, 2019 1:33 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:middle-east@icann.org" target="_blank">middle-east@icann.org</a>; <a href="mailto:middle-east@icann.org" target="_blank">middle-east@icann.org</a>; <a href="mailto:hadiaminiawi@yahoo.com" target="_blank">hadiaminiawi@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:nadira.araj@gmail.com" target="_blank">nadira.araj@gmail.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ME ICANN] Montreal ME Space statement first draft for your comment</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=m1179425825769497168gmail-m489388584618859896m2133034115915789863p1><span class=m1179425825769497168gmail-m489388584618859896m2133034115915789863s1><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Dear Hadia and all,</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=m1179425825769497168gmail-m489388584618859896m2133034115915789863p2><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=m1179425825769497168gmail-m489388584618859896m2133034115915789863p1><span class=m1179425825769497168gmail-m489388584618859896m2133034115915789863s1><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>First of all, I would like to thank Hadia for this excellent draft. I have some inputs that I want to provide (see the file).</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=m1179425825769497168gmail-m489388584618859896m2133034115915789863p1><span class=m1179425825769497168gmail-m489388584618859896m2133034115915789863s1><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I used the red color for text that I propose to remove, blue for text I propose to add and Green for my comment.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=m1179425825769497168gmail-m489388584618859896m2133034115915789863p2><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:69.3pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy'>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Tijani BENJEMAA</span></strong><br>Executive Director<br>Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations (<strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>FMAI</span></strong>)<br>Telephone: +216 52 385 114<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></body></html>