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

Suresh Ramasubramanian suresh at hserus.net
Fri Mar 6 07:13:14 EST 2015 

I am not sure how - assets of embargoed individuals if found in the USA may be subject to seizure. 

I haven't seen the actual domains so I am not sure if they were simply removed from the registrar's records, or moved to a special NS operated to host seized domains

--srs (iPad)

> On 06-Mar-2015, at 17:23, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> 
> So this is about US-based registrars of 2LD registrations, and
> registrants who fall under the terms of the sanctions?
> 
> Would the registrants be able to work around the issue without
> changing any URIs (and therefore breaking links etc) by means of
> transferring their domain registrations to a registrar outside the
> US?
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> 
> 
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 17:17:42 +0530
> Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
> 
>> 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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