<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">-drc<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 1, 2022, at 4:00 PM, virendra rode <<a href="mailto:virendra.rode@gmail.com" class="">virendra.rode@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">—<div class="">regards,</div><div class="">/vrode </div></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mar 1, 2022, at 00:56, Matthew Petach <<a href="mailto:mpetach@netflight.com" class="">mpetach@netflight.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 12:19 AM George Herbert <<a href="mailto:george.herbert@gmail.com" class="">george.herbert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">Posted by Bill Woodcock on Twitter… <a href="https://twitter.com/woodyatpch/status/1498472865301098500?s=21" target="_blank" class="">https://twitter.com/woodyatpch/status/1498472865301098500?s=21</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><a href="https://pastebin.com/DLbmYahS" target="_blank" class="">https://pastebin.com/DLbmYahS</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ukraine (I think I read as) want ICANN to turn root nameservers off, revoke address delegations, and turn off TLDs for Russia.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Seems… instability creating…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-george<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Information sharing should increase during wartime, not decrease.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Restricting information is more often the playbook of authoritarian regimes, </div><div class="">and not something we should generally support. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Besides, GhostWriter is based out of Belarus, not Russia proper. ^_^;</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/ghostwriter-hackers-belarus-russia-misinformationo/" class="">https://www.wired.com/story/ghostwriter-hackers-belarus-russia-misinformationo/</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Matt</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div>
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