Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] EU or not on the Euro<br/>
Date: Sep 20, 2002 @ 09:59<br/>
Author: Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell &lt;kevin@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-809893114"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt;the definition of  continents is but a convention, but again the one I&#39;m <br/>
&gt;familiar with<br/>
&gt;says Cyprus is in Europe. What do others think?<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>According to the UN definitions, Cyprus is in Asia...<br/>
<br/>
         <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/methods/m49regin.htm">http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/methods/m49regin.htm</a><br/>
<br/>
These definitions actually give no end of grief. In the past, I was asked <br/>
to organise the election of a European ccTLD representative for the <br/>
Internet governing body (ICANN), but unfortunately no-one had bothered to <br/>
define which countries this should include.<br/>
<br/>
I therefore decided to use the UN definitions as a starting point, but <br/>
included Cyprus and Ascension Island (!) who had always come to the <br/>
European regional meeting. However, this brought complaints from Armenia <br/>
and Georgia who claimed they were part of Europe. Then there was Greenland <br/>
which is considered part of Europe for Internet purposes (as the links go <br/>
via Denmark), but is definitely not part of it geographically. And so it <br/>
goes on...<br/>
<br/>
Regards,<br/>
<br/>
Kevin Meynell</div>