Defining IUF Regions Defining regional representative regions will determine how many RR slots will be available. This is a very important part of the Unified Proposal, but not an issue in the Andy proposal. In this proposal the size and definition of regions is not important as it is based on volunteers being found to represent whatever areas we can. The chart suggests candidates for 10 representatives. The above criteria are based on my experience as the de facto representative for Asia.
Language is especially important.
Merely dividing the world into five regions based on geography, as is done by the Olympics, is impractical because of the very real language barrier and because the IUF has no budget for translation. That the number of Regional Representatives is increased by 5 each year for 3 years until the maximum is reached. That 5 regions is a better and more manageable than 15. That we follow John Foss' suggestion to start putting the system into practice on a limited scale. I agree with all the above, except for reducing the number of regions to 5, because I believe, based on my experience in Asia, that it is too much of a burden for a single Regional Representative to to handle too many countries at once, and the language barrier.