Yuri Kargapolov

Country:	Ukraine
Email:	yvk [at] uanic.net
LinkedIn:	[Yuri's LinkedIn Yuri Kargapolov]
Has attended 10+ ICANN Meetings

Yuri Kargapolov is a Member of the Coordination Council for the Ukrainian Network Information Center (UANIC ), one of the developers of the administration and technical rules for IDN ccTLDs.

Yuri Kargapolov graduated from the Odessa Polytechnic Institute, Radio-engineering faculty, in 1980 received diploma Dipl. Eng. Radio Designer and Technologist.

He created the ISP, has built and launched more than 25 technical platforms in different cities of Ukraine to provide broadband wired and wireless access.

Yuri Kargapolv took active part in the processes of document preparation for .УКР IDN ccTLD application and .0.8.3.e164.arpa application (Ukrainian ENUM domain). On November 16, 2009 Ukraine - during IGF in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egipt - initiated an application to ICANN for assignment of the Cyrillic top-level domain name .УКР.

During preparation launching of domain .УКР IDN ccTLD he held position Chair of Technical Group of UANIC .

Yuri was participant more than 50 international and local meetings and conferences of ICANN, IGF, RIPE, ITU, TLDCON, IGF-UA , RIGF etc.

Yuri has attended 10+ ICANN Meetings, including ICANN 51 in Los Angeles. He is interested in Internet Governance and the DNS.

Career History

Since the 90s he built more than 40 networks on the basis of X.25/X.28, FR, IP-technologies with implemented data transfer, VoIP, video and special-oriented services for banks and corporation with gateways into PSTN and mobile Telcos for banks and corporations.

In 2003 he took part in the launch SWIFTNet - transfer SWIFT from X.25 protocol to IP-protocol.

From 2006 up to 2011 he held various positions as civil servant in National Commission for Communication Regulation of Ukraine (Head Department of IP-technologies, broadband and Internet, Assistant Chairman of NCCR) and in Ministry of Transport and Communication of Ukraine – State Administration of Communication of Ukraine (Head Department of Strategic Development of Communication).

From 2007 he Adviser from Ukraine in GAC.

On 2004 he was elected to position of Chair of the Reglament Committee of UANIC.

On May 2014 he became a member of Coordination Centre UANIC.

On Feb 2012 he was included into the Programme Committee ENOG

On 2011 he worked as observer in Cyrillic case study team . Cyrillic Case Study group considered a possibility of using the apostrophe (U+02BC) in domain names. Ukrainian participants raised the issue that the apostrophe in the Ukrainian language is not a punctuation mark but a letter. The email in support of the use of the apostrophe to address of Cyrillic Case Study group was sent .

Since October, 2014 he took position of Chair of Cyrillic Generation Panel (as volunteer).

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Internet Governance Forum

International Telecommunication Union

Governmental Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN as they relate to concerns of governments, particularly matters where there may be an interaction between ICANN's policies and various laws and international agreements or where they may affect public policy issues (ICANN Bylaws).