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

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

OFAC sanctions - there are a bunch of companies tied to individuals involved in the crimean conflict that are slapped with a US trade embargo.

For a US company to do business with them means jail time, if not heavy fines.

http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Pages/ukraine.aspx

--srs (iPad)

> On 06-Mar-2015, at 17:05, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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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