Again, aside from turning off the ICANN-operated root servers (which would be pointless), the remainder of the requests from the UA Government Advisory Committee member are not something ICANN could/would do unilaterally regardless of the validity of the justification.

Regards,
-drc

On Mar 1, 2022, at 4:00 PM, virendra rode <virendra.rode@gmail.com> wrote:

I concur, this is an extremely dangerous slippery slope that ICANN should refrain. There’s the possibility for misfires, misattribution and miscalculation that could backfire which is extremely concerning.

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regards,
/vrode 

On Mar 1, 2022, at 00:56, Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> wrote:




On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 12:19 AM George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com> wrote:

https://pastebin.com/DLbmYahS

Ukraine (I think I read as) want ICANN to turn root nameservers off, revoke address delegations, and turn off TLDs for Russia.

Seems… instability creating…

-george


Information sharing should increase during wartime, not decrease.

Restricting information is more often the playbook of authoritarian regimes, 
and not something we should generally support.  

Besides, GhostWriter is based out of Belarus, not Russia proper.  ^_^;

Matt