[FAmSCo] What's up?

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Freitag, den 26.08.2011, 16:16 +0200 schrieb Joerg Simon: 
> Am 26.08.2011 12:32, schrieb Buddhika Kurera:
> I already stated the FAmA Position in
> "BUG ON
> <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MembershipService/Verification>"
> 
> <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2921>
> 
> I understand that you want to solve what you think is a Bug and think i
> understand what you are trying to achieve - but as already stated the
> division of countries in our scripting is based on
> 
> http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm#asia
> and
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_Asia
> 
> these are clear guidelines that we are able/willing to maintain and we
> do not want to maintain the script with a informal set of rules that
> changes anytime someone "feels" more connected to a region. These can
> only lead to confusion (especially for outsiders).

Hi Jörg,

I don't think that any of these definitions apply here because they
define *Asia* as a *continent* but not *EMEA* or *APAC* as *regions*.

According to 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East#Territories_and_regions or
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/maps/refmap_middle_east.html
Israel, Lebanon, Saudi-Arabia and UAE are definitely Middle East,
even Kyrgyzstan is supposed to be in the wider Middle East, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Middle_East

Regards,
Christoph