Re: [At-Large] UA asking ICANN to introduce sanctions targeting Russian Federation’s access to the Internet: nabok@thedigital.gov.ua to ICANN: "Ukraine urgently need ICANN's support"

The attached letter seems official enough. O. On 02/03/2022 02:01, Barry Shein via At-Large wrote:

I'm not sure that the ICANN GAC representative from Ukraine has the authority to request this except inasmuch as I suppose anyone can request removal of a ccTLD, IP allocations, etc. But as an official representative of their country.

How would we know if someone higher up in Ukrainian authority, Zelensky for example, would think this a terrible idea? Perhaps for reasons you won't think of off the top of your heads.