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 > /* > > German Chancellor Fellow 21' (Bundeskanzler-Stipendiatin) | Alexander > von Humboldt Foundation <https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/> > > Visiting Researcher (Gastwissenschaftlerin) | Wissenschaftszentrum > Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) <https://wzb.eu/en> > > Member | Coalizão Direitos na Rede <https://direitosnarede.org.br/> > Chair | Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group at ICANN > <https://gnso.icann.org/en/about/stakeholders-constituencies/ncsg> > Co-Coordinator | Internet Governance Caucus <https://igcaucus.org/> > > Twitter: @boomartins <https://twitter.com/boomartins> // Skype: > bruna.martinsantos > [log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>_ and [log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>