Hello Sam,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Our chair @Joan can see how we can promote it within the global IGF as per NPOC and within our regional gatherings.</div><div><br></div><div>Just my little thoughts </div><div><br></div><div>Poncelet </div><div><br>On Wednesday, 30 October 2019, Sam Lanfranco <<a href="mailto:sam@lanfranco.net">sam@lanfranco.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA">NPOC
colleagues, <br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA">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. <br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA">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. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12808-z" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext"><span> </span>https://www.nature.com/<wbr>articles/s41467-019-12808-z</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-CA">The impact
of
sea level rise on the infrastructure of the Internet ecosystem
will be equally
catastrophic and is approaching fast.</span></b><span lang="EN-CA"> Rather than belaboring the point
that some action is necessary here, I will just share a short
bibliography on
the subject. <b>Do we need a discussion?</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA">Sam Lanfranco<b><br>
</b> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA">The Internet
May Be Underwater in 15 Years: <u><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/07/news-internet-underwater-sea-level-rise/" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr>nationalgeographic.com/<wbr>science/2018/07/news-internet-<wbr>underwater-sea-level-rise/</a></u></span><u><span></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Buried
Internet infrastructure at
risk as sea levels rise: <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180716141627.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">https://www.sciencedaily.com/<wbr>releases/2018/07/180716141627.<wbr>htm</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Rising Seas
Could Cause Problems for
Internet Infrastructure <a href="https://biodiversityfunders.org/rising-seas-could-cause-problems-for-internet-infrastructure/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">https://biodiversityfunders.<wbr>org/rising-seas-could-cause-<wbr>problems-for-internet-<wbr>infrastructure/</span></a><br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Sea Level
Rise to Jeopardize U.S.
Internet Infrastructure In 15 Years <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2018/08/11/sea-level-rise-to-jeopardise-u-s-internet-infrastructure-in-15-years-study-says/%231fdac65a7cb0" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">https://www.forbes.com/sites/<wbr>federicoguerrini/2018/08/11/<wbr>sea-level-rise-to-jeopardise-<wbr>u-s-internet-infrastructure-<wbr>in-15-years-study-says/#<wbr>1fdac65a7cb0</span></a></span></p>
<p><span>Internet
infrastructure will be
inundated as sea levels rise: </span><u><span><a href="https://www.networkworld.com/article/3290250/internet-infrastructure-will-be-inundated-as-sea-levels-rise-says-report.html" target="_blank">https://www.networkworld.com/<wbr>article/3290250/internet-<wbr>infrastructure-will-be-<wbr>inundated-as-sea-levels-rise-<wbr>says-report.html</a><br>
</span></u></p>
<p><span>Key
Internet Connections and Locations are at Risk from Rising
Seas: <a href="https://www.americanscientist.org/article/key-internet-connections-and-locations-are-at-risk-from-rising-seas" target="_blank"><span>https://www.americanscientist.<wbr>org/article/key-internet-<wbr>connections-and-locations-are-<wbr>at-risk-from-rising-seas</span></a></span></p>
<p><span>The
internet is at risk from rising sea levels | World Economic
Forum: <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/rising-sea-levels-are-coming-for-the-internet" target="_blank"><span>https://www.weforum.org/<wbr>agenda/2018/07/rising-sea-<wbr>levels-are-coming-for-the-<wbr>internet</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span>Rising
sea levels are going to mess with the internet, sooner than you
think: <a href="https://www.popsci.com/sea-level-rise-internet-infrastructure/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">https://www.popsci.com/sea-<wbr>level-rise-internet-<wbr>infrastructure/</span></a></span></p>
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