Issue 89: Ukraine’s Libraries, Russia’s Internet, and the Big Deal

Issue 89: Ukraine’s Libraries, Russia’s Internet, and the Big Deal

The first story below is one from National Public Radio on Ukraine libraries’ efforts are undertaking.
Let’s not forget the terror they are facing, the people stepping up to meet their community’s needs, and those who have lost their lives in the Russian war.
The threads this week:
Ukraine Libraries Doing What Libraries Do
Can the Internet Sanction a Country? Should It?
Thursday Threads 2011
: The Demise of the Big Deal?
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Ukraine Libraries Doing What Libraries Do
«Refugee reception points, hostels and logistics points are organized here,» [Oksana Brui, president of the Ukrainian Library Association] said. «Camouflage nets for the military are also woven here. Home care courses are held here. Books are collected here to be transferred to libraries in neighboring countries that receive Ukrainian refugees.»
—
Ukraine’s libraries are offering bomb shelters and camouflage classes
, NPR, 9-Mar-2022
I’m not surprised.
I presume the libraries mentioned in the NPR article are «public libraries,» but they could be libraries of any type.
It brings to mind the stories about the
library in Ferguson
, Missouri, during the riots for the shooting of Michael Brown by local police.
The NPR story also mentions Nicholas Poole’s «we will reschedule just as soon as we have vanquished our invaders» tweet that was in
Thursday Threads
two weeks ago
.
Can the Internet Sanction a Country? Should It?
The invasion of Ukraine poses a new challenge for multistakeholder Internet infrastructure governance. In this statement, we discuss possible sanctions and their ramifications, lay out principles that we believe should guide Internet sanctions, and propose a multistakeholder governance mechanism to facilitate decision-making and implementation.
—
Multistakeholder Imposition of Internet Sanctions
[PDF], Packet Clearing House, 10-Mar-2022
Last week,
Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation called on internet bodies to sanction Russia
over its government’s war on Ukraine.
This would include revoking Russia’s top-level country domains (e.g. «.ru»), canceling SSL certificates associated with Russian sites, disabling the root DNS servers, and withdrawing the right for Russian internet service providers to use the IP addresses that have been assigned to the country.
The
Multistakeholder Imposition of Internet Sanctions
document describes why this would be a bad idea and lays out a plan for what can be done.
For more depth, see the
article I wrote last week
on the document.
Thursday Threads 2011
: The Demise of the Big Deal?
Looking backward, the
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