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I heard recently informally that there were ongoing discussions amongst Alaska, Yukon, and BC to try to make the US-Canada border there open in order to facilitate trade and exchange. This would not affect the rest of the US-Canada border. Does anyone know of any precedents, currently or previously, where two countries officially had part of their border(s) open (soft) and part of their border(s) not open (hard). UK-Ireland would not seem to be an analogy because, currently, UK-Ireland have an open land, sea, and air border and the air/sea borders between this CTA and Schengen etc. are not open. Pairs of countries with separate land borders between them include China/Russia, China/India, Austria/Switzerland, Spain/France, numerous examples of large and small exclaves and enclaves, and perhaps even US customs/immigration at departure airports outside the US (is the boarding area legally US sovereign territory or not?). Are there any examples where separate land borders between two countries are treated in a different manner? Perhaps embassies/consulates and similar? Or are there examples where different parts of a contiguous border between two countries were officially treated in a separate manner? Thank you! Ilan http://www.ilankelman.org Twitter @IlanKelman