Ukraine and recents requests for "Internet sanctions"

[Johan Helsingius]

Here is the RIPE NCC response to the Ukrainian government’s recent request:

https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/ripe-ncc-response-to-request-from-ukrainian-government

Daniel Karrenberg has started this appeal by network engineers:

https://keepitopen.net/

     Julf


On 10/03/2022 15:36, Bruna Martins dos Santos wrote:
> Dear NCSG,
> 
> Circling back on the topic of the Ukraine invasion, I'd like to once 
> again express my solidarity to everyone in the middle of this 
> unnecessary conflict. And I do hope that Olga, Oksana and any other of 
> our members situated in any of the invaded cities remains safe. The 
> level of human rights violations performed by the Russian Government is 
> just unacceptable.
> 
> Having acknowledged that, I believe it might be of your knowledge the 
> recent request from their representative at the GAC for ICANN to 
> "/revoke, permanently or temporarily domain names and SSL certificates 
> for .ru", ".pQ" and ".su" and shut down DNS root servers situated in the 
> Russian Federation. 
> /(https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/fedorov-to-marby-28feb22-en.pdf 
> <https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/fedorov-to-marby-28feb22-en.pdf>). 
> Recently, Org has replied to the request reinforcing that the Internet 
> is a decentralized system and ICANN’s role is to ensure the security, 
> stability, and resiliency of the Internet, and we do this by ensuring 
> that the identifiers we allocate through the Internet Assigned Numbers 
> Authority functions are unique and consistent, in line with global 
> policies 
> (https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/marby-to-fedorov-02mar22-en.pdf 
> <https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/marby-to-fedorov-02mar22-en.pdf>). 
> 
> 
> On that note, it has also come to my attention today that some members 
> from the IG community issued a founding statement + technical paper on 
> /'Multistakeholder Imposition of Internet Sanctions'/ 
> (https://www.pch.net/resources/Papers/Multistakeholder-Imposition-of-Internet-Sanctions.pdf 
> <https://www.pch.net/resources/Papers/Multistakeholder-Imposition-of-Internet-Sanctions.pdf>), 
> that might be of your interest. Last but not least, I'd like to stress 
> that I'm sharing this document on our list not as an endorsement to its 
> content but solely because I believe it is something of our membership 
> interest as what it proposes is a multistakeholder process for setting 
> Internet Infrastructure Governance Sanctions.
> 
> Since I noted some of our members' interest in the discussion I thought 
> that maybe we could get a conversation going on the list.
> 
> Best,
> 
> -- 
> */Bruna Martins dos Santos
> /*
> 
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> 
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> 
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