Poncelet,Thank you for your comments. I agree that the looming crisis around Internet Infrastructure and Sea Level Rise is not central to ICANN's mandate, and do not see it as occupying a central position on the ICANN agenda. But, as multiple stakeholder constituencies we (including ICANN and ICANN org) have to press for greater attention elsewhere, where stakeholder awareness and engagement are raised with regard to such issues.The IGF is one of those venues and I support NPOC developing a strategy (say as NPOC org, with an independent budget and above and beyond its ICANN constituency existence) to take on such tasks.I remind us that this is more or less how the other ICANN constituencies operate outside ICANN, targeting their efforts at areas that impact their core interests. Our interests are two fold, the impact of the Internet ecosystem on the NGO, not-for-profit, community constituency, and on "the public good". Within NPOC we focus on the DNS, but our concerns are wider. This is a good opportunity to mature NPOC as a concerned constituency within the challenges facing the wider Internet ecosystem.<Food for though>Sam L.---- Original Message ----
From: Poncelet Ileleji <pileleji@ymca.gm>
To: "Sam Lanfranco" <sam@lanfranco.net>
Cc: "NPOC Discuss" <npoc-discuss@icann.org>
Sent: Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 5:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Npoc-discuss] Internet Infrastructure and Sea Level Rise: Food/Question for Thought
Hello Sam,I think it’s more of an issue within the overall internet governance domain so within Berlin discuss we can do it. As under the realm of ICANN we won’t get far with the discuss as it centers on infrastructure not DNS.Our chair @Joan can see how we can promote it within the global IGF as per NPOC and within our regional gatherings.Just my little thoughtsÂPonceletÂ
On Wednesday, 30 October 2019, Sam Lanfranco <sam@lanfranco.net> wrote:NPOC colleagues,
I am raising this within the NPOC discussion group because I want to get a sense of whether this is an issue that should be somewhere on the ICANN agenda. At a minimum ICANN and its communities are constituent stakeholders in this issue.Most analysis sees serious problems within 15 years.
Much of the Internet’s physical infrastructure is situated in locations close to coastal shorelines, connected to the half-million miles of undersea cables. New estimates of sea level rise driven by climate change have tripled earlier estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding.  https://www.nature.com/articl
es/s41467-019-12808-z The impact of this on human habitation, and human migration, will be catastrophic. Estimates are that by mid-century up to 340 million people will live on land below projected annual flood levels. Current estimates put one billion people now occupying land less than 10 meters above current high tide lines, including 250 million living below 1 meter above current high tide lines. These populations will become a migration tsunami. But that is not the issue I want to raise here.
The impact of sea level rise on the infrastructure of the Internet ecosystem will be equally catastrophic and is approaching fast. Rather than belaboring the point that some action is necessary here, I will just share a short bibliography on the subject. Do we need a discussion?
Sam Lanfranco
The Internet May Be Underwater in 15 Years:Â https://www.nationalgeographic
.com/science/2018/07/news- internet-underwater-sea-level- rise/ Buried Internet infrastructure at risk as sea levels rise:Â https://www.sciencedaily.com/r
eleases/2018/07/180716141627.h tm Rising Seas Could Cause Problems for Internet Infrastructure https://biodiversityfunders.or
g/rising-seas-could-cause-prob lems-for-internet-infrastructu re/
Sea Level Rise to Jeopardize U.S. Internet Infrastructure In 15 Years https://www.forbes.com/sites/f
edericoguerrini/2018/08/11/sea -level-rise-to-jeopardise-u-s- internet-infrastructure-in-15- years-study-says/#1fdac65a7cb0 Internet infrastructure will be inundated as sea levels rise: https://www.networkworld.com/a
rticle/3290250/internet-infras tructure-will-be-inundated-as- sea-levels-rise-says-report. html
Key Internet Connections and Locations are at Risk from Rising Seas:Â https://www.americanscientist.
org/article/key-internet-conne ctions-and-locations-are-at- risk-from-rising-seas The internet is at risk from rising sea levels | World Economic Forum:Â https://www.weforum.org/agenda
/2018/07/rising-sea-levels- are-coming-for-the-internet Rising sea levels are going to mess with the internet, sooner than you think:Â https://www.popsci.com/sea-lev
el-rise-internet-infrastructur e/ Â
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