[governance] FW: [IP] About ICANN and Crimea

[Norbert Bollow]

What precisely is the actual issue here?

I mean, what exactly happened?

Greetings,
Norbert



On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 09:31:27 -0800
"Michael Gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: David Farber via ip [mailto:ip at listbox.com] 
> Sent: March 5, 2015 7:01 AM
> To: ip
> Subject: [IP] About ICANN and Crimea
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> Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation
> <http://minsvyaz.ru/en/> Report mistakes
> <http://minsvyaz.ru/en/contacts/letter/> 
> 
> Events <http://minsvyaz.ru/en/events/list/> / Official statement
> <http://minsvyaz.ru/en/events/list/?type=22> 
> 
> 
> Russia Disputed Against Removal of Crimean Domains in ICANN 
> 
> 
> Published:
> Feb. 11, 2015
> Event type:
>  <http://minsvyaz.ru/en/events/list/?type=22> Official statement 
> Directions:
>  <http://minsvyaz.ru/en/events/list/?directions=298> Cooperation with
> ICAAN, <http://minsvyaz.ru/en/events/list/?directions=274> Internet
> regulation on behalf of global community Regions:
> The Republic of Crimea
> <http://minsvyaz.ru/en/events/list/?words=The%20Republic%20of%20Crimea>
> Countries: Russia <http://minsvyaz.ru/en/events/list/?words=Russia> ,
> Singapore <http://minsvyaz.ru/en/events/list/?words=Singapore> 
> Persons:
> 
> Print <http://minsvyaz.ru/en/events/32631/> Share
> <http://minsvyaz.ru/en/events/32631/> 
> 
> Singapore, February 11, 2015. — Julia Elanskaya, Deputy Director of
> Department on International Collaboration of Ministry of Telecom and
> Mass Communications, made an official statement on 52nd meeting of
> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), opened
> at the beginning of the week in Singapore. She paid attention to
> recent decision of American registrar, cancelling domains, registered
> on the territory of Crimea.
> 
> Full text of the statement is presented below.
> 
> “We want to draw your attention to recent decision of American
> registrar. It informed its clients, located in a specific region,
> about cancellation of accounts, domains and their withdrawal starting
> from January 31, 2015. Registrar refers to trading limitations that
> don’t allow American companies to run a business with individuals and
> enterprises, located in Crimea.
> 
> Russia has always been against introduction of sanctions in ICT
> sphere, particularly, regarding the Internet.
> 
> Sanctions, especially those, that are imposed on the Internet users,
> must be considered as restriction of right of every person to receive
> and distribute information and ideas through mass media independently
> of state borders, as it is established in Article 19 of the Universal
> Declaration of Human Rights.
> 
> This precedent contradicts with values of International meeting at
> the highest level on information society, especially with principles
> of using ICT for ensuring general access to information in accordance
> with Tunisian program on information society.[MG]  (presumably the
> WSIS Declaration).
> 
> We want to mention that this precedent shows real situation in sphere
> of Internet-governance, when one government unilaterally adopts
> measures, discriminating users rights on area basis. At the same time
> this government controls governance of domain name system throughout
> the world.
> 
> Such unilateral restrictions undermine universally multilaterally
> recognized principles and values and trust in open and interconnected
> information space. They can also damage development of
> Internet-governance mechanisms and lead to its fragmentation.
> 
> These restrictions also damage multilateral model of
> Internet-governance and clearly demonstrate its inefficiency. We
> suppose that it’s necessary to ensure more fair allocation of
> Internet-governance means based on international agreements between
> countries under the aegis of the United Nations.
> 
> Russian Federation encourages all interested parties of all countries
> refrain from blocking in the Internet, including blocking of domain
> names for political purposes and make efforts for enforcement
> Internet-users rights. 
> 
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