Dear Councilors, For your information, David circulated ICANN CEO's reply to the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine on restricting Russia's access to the Internet. Regards, Philippe Orange Restricted From: soac-chairs <soac-chairs-bounces@icann.org> On Behalf Of David Olive via soac-chairs Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2022 4:50 AM To: soac-chairs@icann.org; mason.cole@appdetex.com; lschulman@inta.org; wuknoben@gmail.com; bruna.mrtns@gmail.com; benakin@gmail.com; plommer@gmail.com; aheineman@godaddy.com; sdemetriou@verisign.com; seun.ojedeji@gmail.com; sb@inapp.com; sebastien@bachollet.fr; aho@usma.ac.pa; eduardodiazrivera@gmail.com Cc: Team-leaders@icann.org; Sally Newell Cohen <sally.newellcohen@icann.org> Subject: [soac-chairs] Reply to the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Dear Community Leaders: As you are likely aware, on 28 February, we received a letter from the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine addressed to Göran. ( https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/fedorov-to-marby-28feb2...) The ICANN org Executive Team understands that there is wide community interest in this matter. As such, and for transparency, I would like to share with you Göran's reply. https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/marby-to-fedorov-02mar2.... The Internet is a decentralized system. No one actor can control it or shut it down. ICANN's role is to ensure the security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet, and we do this by ensuring that the identifiers we allocate through the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority functions are unique and consistent, in line with global policies. I wish to emphasize that ICANN's role with country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) is limited and predominantly involves validating requests that come from within the respective country or territory. ICANN cannot take unilateral action against a country to limit or restrict Internet access and we do not play a role in the day-to-day management of ccTLDs, which is a local responsibility. The ICANN org Executive Team understands that this is a difficult time for many members of the ICANN community. We thank you all for your continued commitment to our multi-stakeholder model of participation, inclusiveness, and representativeness, and we look forward to engaging further with you at ICANN73 next week. Best regards, David Olive Senior Vice President, Policy Development Support ICANN David Olive Senior Vice President Policy Development Support Managing Director - ICANN Washington DC Office Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ce message et ses pieces jointes peuvent contenir des informations confidentielles ou privilegiees et ne doivent donc pas etre diffuses, exploites ou copies sans autorisation. Si vous avez recu ce message par erreur, veuillez le signaler a l'expediteur et le detruire ainsi que les pieces jointes. Les messages electroniques etant susceptibles d'alteration, Orange decline toute responsabilite si ce message a ete altere, deforme ou falsifie. Merci. This message and its attachments may contain confidential or privileged information that may be protected by law; they should not be distributed, used or copied without authorisation. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this message and its attachments. As emails may be altered, Orange is not liable for messages that have been modified, changed or falsified. Thank you.