In geographical terms all of the land that is north of South America, ie the border between Columbia and Panama and all of the islands of the Caribbean and the islands north of the Antilles are North America. There are numerous categorizations of the countries that are south of the US and north of South America based on language or other factors like economy that produce other than geographical terms. By the way the CIA reference that you gave puts DR on a map of Central America and the Caribbean which is a cartographic view of the area. One should also note that many portions of the Caribbean to not consider themselves to be part of Latin America or North America for different specific reasons. Bottom line a categorization discussion here is somewhat a wasted exercise when we should be discussing how to further the development of the Internet in this portion of the world. Many of the problems/issues that are seen in other developing parts of the globe exist in the Caribbean.
Ray > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-nanog- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rodney Joffe > Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 2:56 PM > To: Nanog Futures > Subject: Re: meeting in the Dominican Republic > > > On Feb 26, 2007, at 11:31 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > > > On Feb 26, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote: > > > >> What reason would NANOG have for holding a meeting in DR? Not a lot > >> of context. DR is also in the LACNIC region. LACNIC has meetings > >> similiar to RIPE in content i.e. policy and ops. > >> > >> http://lacnic.net/en/eventos/lacnicix/index.html > > > > LACNIC is not the equivalent of NANOG any more than ARIN is. > > According to <http://lacnic.net/en/sobre-lacnic/cobertura/ > > index.html>, LACNIC covers Mexico. If a meeting were suggested in > > Mexico, would you say NANOG should not meet there because LACNIC > > has meetings there? > > > > Perhaps the DR is not considered North America, but I thought it > > was. It is closer to Florida than Puerto Rico, which is part of > > the US. If the DR is not in NA, then we can have a discussion > > about the applicability of NANOG meeting there. > > Probably the appropriate discussion to have first... > > DR is considered Central America, not North America. > https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/dr.html > >
