Re: [ga-icann] Geographical Zones

["L Gallegos" <jandl@jandl.com>]

For the At-large, it would be better to use the demographics of 
those who actually attempted to register to vote in the elections 
rather than the GA list.  It was interesting.  

Leah


On 31 Aug 2001, at 22:27, William S. Lovell wrote:

> >From Art. 5, Sect. 6, ICANN Bylaws of  31 March, 1999:
> 
> "As used herein, each of the following shall be a "Geographic Region":
> Europe; Asia/Australia/Pacific; Latin America/Caribbean Islands;
> Africa;
> 
> North America."
> 
> The geographic distribution of registered voters of the General
> Assembly
> 
> of the Domain Name Supporting Organization, as of Wed., Aug. 29, 2001,
> is given below.  Not to analyze here, but some incongruities seem to
> be present.  To analyze, however, requires at least the addition of
> the countries of residence of each of the Directors, and I'll tote
> those up tomorrow.
> 
> (It should not be assumed from the presentation of these data that any
> attempt is being made to settle the matter of geographic distribution
> issue on the basis of registered voters -- it is merely that at the
> moment, those are the only hard data of which I am presently aware,
> and one must start somewhere. What may be of some use, at least, is
> the Director/Voter ratio for each Region and I'll provide those
> tomorrow, or anyone else can who wants to -- I'm too wasted tonight.)
> 
> The underlying questions, of course, are at least (a) whether each
> Director should "represent" roughly equal numbers of people; and (b)
> which people
> 
> are these?  Registered voters?  Those active in the GA?  Domain name
> holders? Everyone on earth who has an email address?  And should the
> "Geographic Regions" of ICANN as a whole even be used as any kind of
> model (good or bad) for the "Geographical Zones" of the ALSO? _____
> 
> Europe
> 
>  Austria   4
>  Belgium   1
>  Denmark   2
>  "Europe"  1
>  Finland   1
>  France   77
>  Germany   31
>  Ireland   2
>  Italy   6
>  Netherlands  3
>  Norway   2
>  Slovenia  1
>  Spain   1
>  Sweden   1
>  Switzerland  3
>  UK   18
>         ___
>         152
> 
> Asia/Australia/Pacific
> 
>  Australia  9
>  China   2
>  India   6
>  Israel   3
>  Japan   11
>  Jordan   1
>  Korea (Republic of) 1
>  Korea (South)  3
>  Malaysia  1
>  New Zealand  5
>  Pakistan  2
>  Philippines  2
>  Taiwan   1
>  Thailand  1
>  Turkey   1
>  Uzbekistan  1
>               ___
>                 50
> 
> Latin America/Caribbean islands
> 
>  Argentina  2
>  Bolivia   1
>  Brazil   2
>  Chile   1
>  Cuba   1
>  Dominican Republic 1
>  Ecuador   1
>  Mexico   3
>  Panama   1
>  Peru   1
>  Puerto Rico  1
>  Virgin Islands  1
>                     __
>                     16
> 
> Africa
> 
>  Algeria   1
>  Benin   1
>  Cameroon  1
>  Nigeria   1
>  Togo   1
>                 _
>                 5
> 
> North America
> 
>  Canada   21
>  USA   197
>             ___
>             218
> 
> Bill Lovell
> --
> The URLs for Best Practices:
> DNSO Citation:
> http://www.dnso.org/dnso/gaindex.html
> (Under "Other Information Documents"; "August 2001:
> Proposal for Best Practices for the DNSO GA." This
> page also includes much else about the DNSO.)
> Part I:
> http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BestPractices.html
> Part II:
> http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BP-flowchart.pdf
> (Access to the .pdf file requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader,
> available for free down load at
> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.)
> Part III:
> http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BP-PartIII.html
> 
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