Dear Joanna, Thank you very much for your wonderful explanation and for all your support. Today, on March 10 2022, It is very late for Ukraine to discuss all Russian threats to Ukrainian Internet critical infrastructure. Tomorrow, March 11 2022, it can be late to discuss all Russian threats to global Internet critical infrastructure. I absolutely understand that we can not discuss this issue just now in the proper way. But we have to include this issue into our minutes. Kind regards, Oksana On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 3:18 PM <jkuleszaicann@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
Please let me add to what has been said already: Oksana indeed raised this issue yesterday, taking the floor during the GAC drafting session, speaking au lieu of the GAC UA rep who was not able to participate. Manal agreed for us to consider looking into this issue during the brief Q&A session in today’s bilateral. I encouraged Oksana to share her statement with the group, in case our time today might run short today. We have not agreed to add an agenda item, rather a question has been raised on the list ahead of the meeting.
GAC is working on including individual all UA related GAC contributions in its final statement. It might be useful for the ALAC to reference the EURALO statement and the support it had gotten.
Should more discussion be useful, we can ensure it is continued intersessionally.
Thank you and kind regards,
Joanna
*From:* At-Large <at-large-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org> *On Behalf Of *Oksana Prykhodko via At-Large *Sent:* Thursday, March 10, 2022 2:01 PM *To:* Roberto Gaetano <roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com> *Cc:* nabok@thedigital.gov.ua; At Large <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> *Subject:* Re: [At-Large] 2019 year Russian legislation on sovereign Internet
Dear all,
Yesterday this question was discussed by GAC, and it was said, that this session - AOB - is the best opportunity to discuss it with GAC.
Kind regards,
Oksana
On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 2:50 PM Roberto Gaetano via At-Large < at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:
Dear Maureen,
I agree that it is not a good idea to add a discussion point to the agenda, all I wanted to do is to have an answer to the simple question on what, if anything, has the GAC done to take position on this international crisis. Maybe they did, and I am not aware.
I will ask the question in the chat.
Cheers,
Roberto
On 10.03.2022, at 13:40, Maureen Hilyard <maureen.hilyard@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Roberto
While we share you concerns about the situation in the Ukraine our joint session this morning which has already required much preparation would not be a suitable time to raise the issue. However it is something that we can discuss post ICANN73.. Perhaps EURALO needs to lead on this being the region that has the closest contacts.
M
On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 2:20 AM Roberto Gaetano via At-Large < at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:
Dear all,
I am wondering whether the GAC has produced any document about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, knowing that a motion has been passed even at the UN GA. I have not followed all the GAC sessions, as I had other commitments, but it would be good to have a report on that during our joint session. It would be strange - or even worrisome - if the GAC did not take position.
One of the issues that we share with the GAC is the joint effort for a unique, interoperable internet and the way to use dialogue to achieve consensus: the recent actions ordered by Putin go against both these objectives, because war destroys communication links and make collaboration more difficult - if at all possible for quite some time to come.
So the question to all of us is what we can do to stop this - and the GAC, being representative of the Governments, has authority to bring forward a position - and immediately afterwards what we can do to recover the damage unilaterally inflicted.
I observe that it has taken decades for Germany for gaining the reputation that it had lost before and during WWII, and I wonder how long it will take to the Russian people, most of whom are not guilty of the actions of their leader, to regain the confidence of the international community.
Cheers,
Roberto
On 10.03.2022, at 12:14, Oksana Prykhodko via At-Large < at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:
Dear all,
Once again thank you very much for all your support! We in Ukraine are really impressed by all your words and decisions - we urgently need your help and support just now!
I will do my best to participate in the joint GAC and ALAC session today.
On Monday I participated in At-Large Leadership session under bombing alert and with problems with Internet (just now I also hear bombing alert).
That is why I am writing to you beforehand about my point for AOB:
2019 year Russian legislation on sovereign Internet and rumours that Russia will disconnect itself from global Internet on 11 March 2022.
(you can read more about this legislation here: https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/10/31/russia-new-law-expands-government-contro... )
Yes, I know that Russian representatives say that the news regarding the 11 March disconnection is fake, but they have said that all warnings from our Western partners on the Russian war against Ukraine are also fake. It's up to you: to believe them or not.
From my side I am sure that they will not disconnect - not because they do not want, but after the failure with their famous Era cryptophones in Ukraine ( https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ukraine-russian-militarys-own-enc... )
Nevertheless, 2019 legislation went into force, and I am not sure that ICANN and the worldwide Internet community are ready for ALL consequences.
In case I can not participate in the session in person, I would kindly ask Joanna Kulesza to be my proxy.
Thank you very much in advance,
Kind regards,
Oksana Prykhodko,
director of iNGO European Media Platform,
EURALO ALS,
Kyiv, Ukraine
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