{"id":12649,"date":"2011-06-04T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2011\/06\/04\/en-germany-igf-2011-overview\/"},"modified":"2011-06-04T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T14:00:00","slug":"en-germany-igf-2011-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2011\/06\/04\/en-germany-igf-2011-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"III. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland (IGF-D 2011) \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest &#038; 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-germany-igf-2011-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2011 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 Thumbnail\"><\/p>\n<h2>The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-germany-igf-2011-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2011 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The third German IGF (IGF-D 2011) met on 12 April 2011 at the Landesvertretung Sachsen-Anhalt in Berlin to shape Germany&#39;s input to the UN&#39;s 6th IGF in Nairobi that September.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Former WikiLeaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg warned against &#39;locking the internet into national borders&#39;, while panels tackled net neutrality, IPv6, the right to anonymity, and how multistakeholderism fits with party politics.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Held in the shadow of WikiLeaks and the Arab Spring, the meeting circled one question \u2014 how to write cross-border rules that preserve the internet&#39;s dimension of freedom \u2014 and sent its answers to Nairobi as the Messages from Berlin.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>III. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland (IGF-D 2011)<\/strong> draws on official outputs, session records and on-site reporting. In a hurry? The three lines above and the diagrams carry the gist.<\/p>\n<h2>Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-germany-igf-2011-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2011 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 Conference at a glance\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Item<\/th>\n<th>Detail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Official name<\/td>\n<td>III. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland (IGF-D 2011)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>12 April 2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Landesvertretung Sachsen-Anhalt, Berlin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Purpose<\/td>\n<td>Germany&#39;s contribution to shaping the 6th UN IGF in Nairobi (September 2011)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>DGVN (German UN Association), eco, Humanistische Union, ISOC.DE and ver.di<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>&quot;Messages from Berlin&quot; for the Nairobi IGF, published on 21 September 2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>(See the source list at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n<h2>Discussion Digest \u2014 from the Session Records<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-germany-igf-2011-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2011 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Domscheit-Berg Takes the Stage \u2014 &quot;Don&#39;t Lock the Internet into National Borders&quot;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel 1: &quot;Freedom, Security and Responsibility in a Global Context&quot; (14:30, moderated by Falk L\u00fcke)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;We cannot yet properly gauge the significance of the internet. When you don&#39;t know what the right thing is, better to keep your hands off&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Daniel Domscheit-Berg (founder of OpenLeaks, former WikiLeaks spokesman)<\/strong> [3][1]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Fresh from founding OpenLeaks, Domscheit-Berg opposed confining the internet \u2014 &#39;the tool of the next generation&#39; \u2014 within national borders, warning that hasty legislation makes limits on information freedom hard to reverse [3][1]<\/li>\n<li>Problems such as child abuse, he argued, must be tackled at their source, not with ineffective web blocking \u2014 a direct hit at Germany&#39;s then-raging access-blocking law dispute [3][1]<\/li>\n<li>Deutsche Post&#39;s Harald Lemke agreed that national regulation &#39;quickly reaches its limits&#39; in the digital age and that global governance is needed [3][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. The Internet as a Space of Fundamental Rights \u2014 Anonymity, Encryption, Data Retention<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Keynote by State Secretary Birgit Grundmann and exchanges across Panels 1 and 2<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The internet is not a space free of fundamental rights. Encryption capabilities in internet traffic must be consistently strengthened&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Rosemarie Will (Federal Board, Humanistische Union; constitutional law professor)<\/strong> [3][1]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;What we need are cross-border mechanisms that preserve the internet&#39;s dimension of freedom. Eighty million Germans must not be placed under general suspicion&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Birgit Grundmann (State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Justice)<\/strong> [3][1]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The justice ministry kept its distance from re-introducing data retention \u2014 Germany&#39;s constitutional court had struck the law down the year before \u2014 while civil-liberties voices demanded guaranteed anonymity and stronger encryption [3][1]<\/li>\n<li>Panel 2 bundled universal service, the right to anonymity, net neutrality and IPv6 adoption \u2014 a snapshot of 2011, the year IPv4 addresses ran out [3][1]<\/li>\n<li>Regulators were present at working level: Bundesnetzagentur vice-president Iris Henseler-Unger and interior ministry IT director Martin Schallbruch among them [3][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Net Neutrality as &#39;Extremely Important&#39; \u2014 Malte Spitz&#39;s Warning<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Interventions by Malte Spitz (Federal Board, Alliance 90\/The Greens)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;We must make the value of free internet access clearer to people. The principle of net neutrality is of the most extreme importance&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Malte Spitz (Federal Board member, Alliance 90\/The Greens)<\/strong> [3][1]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Spitz warned that abandoning net neutrality would within years skew the internet toward particular interests, and criticised ICANN&#39;s and the ITU&#39;s silence over the WikiLeaks infrastructure takedowns (an ICANN user representative later publicly disputed this) [3][1]<\/li>\n<li>Germany, he noted, claims a &#39;driving role&#39; on internet freedom yet had barely engaged with the IGF process for two years [3][1]<\/li>\n<li>Enquete Commission members from four parties, academia (WZB&#39;s Jeanette Hofmann) and industry filled the panels, wiring the domestic debate into the international process [3][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Multistakeholderism and Politics \u2014 A Swiss Prompt and the Pipeline to Nairobi<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel 3: &quot;Multistakeholderism and Politics&quot; (18:30, moderated by Prof. Kleinw\u00e4chter, introduction by Thomas Schneider)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thomas Schneider of the Swiss Federal Office of Communications (Switzerland&#39;s ICANN GAC representative) opened the panel with lessons on how governments can engage multistakeholder governance [1][2][4]<\/li>\n<li>Enquete Commission MPs Schulz (FDP), von Notz (Greens) and Jarzombek (CDU) joined economics-ministry department head Andreas Schuseil, with Google&#39;s Max Senges and DE-CIX&#39;s Harald Summa for business [1][2][4]<\/li>\n<li>The meeting&#39;s core themes were distilled into the Messages from Berlin, published on 21 September 2011 ahead of the Nairobi IGF (27\u201330 September) [1][2][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What kind of meeting was this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Germany&#39;s third national IGF \u2014 an evening of debate to shape the country&#39;s input to the UN IGF in Nairobi, distilled into the &#39;Messages from Berlin&#39; published that September.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the headline moment?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Daniel Domscheit-Berg, just out of WikiLeaks, telling politicians to &#39;keep their hands off&#39; the internet while its significance is still unknowable \u2014 aimed squarely at Germany&#39;s web-blocking law dispute.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The 2011 agenda \u2014 anonymity, encryption, net neutrality, data retention \u2014 is the same bundle of questions every democracy has wrestled with since. This meeting shows a national IGF absorbing that friction early.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Germany IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-germany-igf-2011-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2011 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 About Germany IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Germany IGF is a National or Regional IGF Initiative (NRI), aligning local internet governance discussion with global IGF principles.<\/p>\n<h2>Why It Matters to You<\/h2>\n<p>What was discussed here becomes <strong>the baseline for national digital policy, platform rules and AI regulation worldwide within a few years<\/strong>. The principles confirmed at the 2011 meeting are the foundation of the &quot;next rules&quot; for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.<\/p>\n<h2>Sources &amp; References<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121129131747\/http:\/\/igf-d.de\/programm-fuer-das-igf-d-2011\/\">Programm 2011 \u2014 3. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland (IGF-D) 2011<\/a> \u2014 IGF-D\uff08\u65e7\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8 igf-d.de\u3001Wayback Machine\u4fdd\u5b58\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200910195544\/https:\/\/www.igf-d.de\/igf-d-2011\/\">IGF-D 2011 \u2014 III. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland\uff08\u516c\u5f0fHistorie\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u3001\u4e3b\u50ac\u56e3\u4f53\u4e00\u89a7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF-D e.V.\uff082020\u5e74\u7248\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u3001Wayback Machine\u4fdd\u5b58\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heise.de\/news\/Openleaks-Gruender-warnt-vor-Beschneidung-von-Internetfreiheiten-1226848.html\">Openleaks-Gr\u00fcnder warnt vor Beschneidung von Internetfreiheiten\uff08Stefan Krempl, 2011-04-12\uff09<\/a> \u2014 heise online (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130101190715\/http:\/\/igf-d.de\/\">Messages from Berlin f\u00fcr das UN IGF in Nairobi, Kenia\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30b9 2011-09-21\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF-D\uff08\u65e7\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8 igf-d.de\u3001Wayback Machine\u4fdd\u5b58\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Quotes are translated or condensed from the records listed above. Bracketed numbers [n] refer to the source list.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Related links<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IGF official (NRI list): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives\">https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Japan IGF: <a href=\"https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/\">https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Yuki Nakazawa&#39;s blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/\">https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Revision History<\/h2>\n<p>Rev. 1 \u2014 published 4 June 2011, 16:00 (Article published)<\/p>\n<p>Rev. 2 \u2014 updated 16 July 2026, 20:09 (Fully revised into the in-depth edition: added the 3-line summary, minutes digest, short talk, source list and diagrams (all quotes verified against the listed sources))<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 \u4e2d\u6fa4\u7950\u6a39<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third German IGF (IGF-D 2011) met on 12 April 2011 at the Landesvertretung Sachsen-Anhalt in Berlin to shape Germany&#8217;s input to the UN&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,72,3,11],"tags":[163,161,160,2358,162,164],"class_list":["post-12649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurodig","category-germany-igf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-germanyigf2011","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}