Freedom for all Ossetians

With the crisis in South Ossetia, I find it interesting that so few people are asking a fairly obvious question - what about North Ossetia? North Ossetia is in the Russian Federation, on the other side of the Caucus mountains which divide Russia from Georgia. Ossetians are neither Georgian nor Russian, as such a nation state for the Ossetian people must surely be considered as a solution to this problem.