[Npoc-discuss] Internet Infrastructure and Sea Level Rise: Food/Question for Thought

Wed Oct 30 14:46:25 UTC 2019

Spot on Sam,

Way to go 👍🏿

Poncelet

On Wednesday, 30 October 2019, Sam Lanfranco <lanfran at yorku.ca> wrote:

> 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 at ymca.gm>
> *To*: "Sam Lanfranco" <sam at lanfranco.net>
> *Cc*: "NPOC Discuss" <npoc-discuss at 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 thoughts
>
> Poncelet
>
> On Wednesday, 30 October 2019, Sam Lanfranco <sam at 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/articles/s41467-019-12808-z
>> <https://www.nature.com/articles/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:  *https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/07/news-internet-underwater-sea-level-rise/
>> <https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/07/news-internet-underwater-sea-level-rise/>*
>>
>> Buried Internet infrastructure at risk as sea levels rise:
>> https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180716141627.htm
>>
>> Rising Seas Could Cause Problems for Internet Infrastructure
>> https://biodiversityfunders.org/rising-seas-could-cause-prob
>> lems-for-internet-infrastructure/
>>
>> Sea Level Rise to Jeopardize U.S. Internet Infrastructure In 15 Years
>> https://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/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/article/3290250/internet-infrastructure-will-be-inundated-as-sea-levels-rise-says-report.html
>> <https://www.networkworld.com/article/3290250/internet-infrastructure-will-be-inundated-as-sea-levels-rise-says-report.html>
>> *
>>
>> Key Internet Connections and Locations are at Risk from Rising Seas:
>> 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:
>> 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:  https://www.popsci.com/sea-level-rise-internet-infrastructure/
>>
>>
>>
>
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