Ukrainian Crisis Prompts Sanctions against Internet Backbone: What is the Stakeholders’ Response?
... suggestions included revising RIPE NCC’s policy to vest it with the power to suspend the governance of assigned IP addresses as well as AS numbers in RIPE NCC’s for countries targeted by the EU and the U.S. sanctions. Further, on February 28 and March 2, ICANN and RIPE NCC respectively received two identical official letters [1] [2] signed by Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Digital Transformation, whereby Ukraine requested support from the Internet organizations. Ukraine ...