{"id":12657,"date":"2015-06-26T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2015\/06\/26\/en-germany-igf-2015-overview\/"},"modified":"2015-06-26T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T12:00:00","slug":"en-germany-igf-2015-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2015\/06\/26\/en-germany-igf-2015-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"VII. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland (IGF-D 2015) \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-2015-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2015 \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-2015-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2015 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The seventh German IGF (IGF-D 2015) met on 21 May 2015 in the Wappensaal of Berlin&#39;s Rotes Rathaus, opened by a keynote from Ambassador Norbert Riedel, the foreign office&#39;s special envoy for cyber foreign policy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The dominant theme was the IANA transition \u2014 moving stewardship of internet resources away from the US \u2014 debated by ICANN board member Wolfgang Kleinw\u00e4chter, DENIC&#39;s CEO and others weighing a multistakeholder model against an intergovernmental council.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>With the Snowden fallout still raging, MPs from four parties debated &#39;the Digital Agenda and the intelligence services&#39; \u2014 Germany&#39;s surveillance controversy distilled into the national IGF in the UN forum&#39;s tenth-anniversary year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>VII. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland (IGF-D 2015)<\/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-2015-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2015 \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>VII. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland (IGF-D 2015)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>21 May 2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Wappensaal, Rotes Rathaus (Red Town Hall), 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 national meeting in the year of the 10th UN IGF in Jo\u00e3o Pessoa, focused on the IANA transition and German cyber foreign policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Led by the DGVN (German UN Association), with Reporters Without Borders, eco and others co-organising<\/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-2015-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2015 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Three Pillars of Cyber Foreign Policy \u2014 Security, Trust and Freedom<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Keynote &quot;Cyber Foreign Policy&quot; (9:30) by Ambassador Norbert Riedel, the federal government&#39;s special envoy for cyber foreign policy<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The cyber domain is too complex to be managed by one person or one stakeholder alone&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Norbert Riedel (Ambassador, Special Envoy for Cyber Foreign Policy, Federal Foreign Office)<\/strong> [3][1]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Norbert Riedel (as above)<\/strong> [3][1]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Riedel framed German cyber foreign policy around three strategic pillars \u2014 security, trust and freedom \u2014 aiming at &#39;a free, secure, decentralised and open internet&#39; [3][1]<\/li>\n<li>He described UN-track work on norms of state behaviour (an &#39;international law of the net&#39;), bilateral cyber consultations with China, the US, Russia and Brazil, and Germany&#39;s role in the 26-nation Freedom Online Coalition [3][1]<\/li>\n<li>Individuals, he stressed, hold the same rights online as offline \u2014 backing the creation of a UN special rapporteur on privacy (appointed June 2015) [3][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. The IANA Transition \u2014 Multistakeholder Model or Intergovernmental Council?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Lightning talk and interview Q&amp;A (10:00\u201310:45, Prof. Wolfgang Kleinw\u00e4chter) and panel &quot;A New Government for the Net: the IANA Transition&quot; (11:15\u201312:00, moderated by Monika Ermert)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prof. Kleinw\u00e4chter, by then an ICANN board member, framed the question \u2014 multistakeholder participation model or intergovernmental council? \u2014 in a lightning talk followed by Q&amp;A with the economics ministry&#39;s digital-policy chief Stefan Schnorr, ICANN senior advisor Tarek Kamel and ISOC trustee Hans-Peter Dittler [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>A second panel moderated by tech journalist Monika Ermert brought eco&#39;s Oliver S\u00fcme, Reporters Without Borders director Christian Mihr and DENIC CEO J\u00f6rg Schweiger to probe post-transition accountability and Germany&#39;s stake [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>With the US Commerce Department&#39;s original September 2015 deadline looming, press-freedom advocates, the .de registry, industry and government examined the transition&#39;s terms at one table [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. The Digital Agenda and the Intelligence Services \u2014 A Cross-Party Debate amid the BND Affair<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &quot;Digital Agenda &amp; Intelligence Services: Where Next for the Net?&quot; (12:00\u201313:00, moderated by Lena Kampf)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heavyweights from four parties \u2014 Jarzombek (CDU), Klingbeil (SPD), Spitz (Greens) and Wawzyniak (Left) \u2014 debated how the government&#39;s Digital Agenda squares with intelligence practices [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>In spring 2015 the scandal over the BND&#39;s cooperation with the NSA in spying on European targets was rocking German politics, putting the tension between surveillance distrust and digital-policy ambition centre stage [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Investigative journalist Lena Kampf moderated; rapporteurs fed each session into the closing wrap-up led by DGVN secretary-general Beate Wagner [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Germany as a New-gTLD Laboratory \u2014 From .berlin to .saarland<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &quot;New Domain Endings in the Digital Agenda&quot; (14:00\u201315:00, moderated by Dirk Krischenowski)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chaired by Dirk Krischenowski of .berlin \u2014 the world&#39;s first city TLD \u2014 operators of .bayern\/.nrw, .koeln\/.cologne and .saarland joined eco to assess new gTLDs as regional digital strategy [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>New gTLDs, attacked at the first IGF-D in 2008 over the USD 185,000 application fee, now featured as working examples of regional branding \u2014 a measure of seven years&#39; change [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Later, Reporters Without Borders board member Matthias Spielkamp moderated a youth debate with blogger Michael Seemann, continuing the forum&#39;s youth track [1][2]<\/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 seventh national IGF, held in Berlin&#39;s town hall: a keynote by the foreign office&#39;s cyber envoy, then a full day examining the IANA transition with government, industry and press-freedom groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the central theme?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Who runs the &#39;new government of the net&#39;. With the US preparing to hand over IANA stewardship, the debate weighed a multistakeholder handover against an intergovernmental council.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The IANA transition underpins every domain name on earth, and the &#39;security, trust, freedom&#39; triad Riedel set out remains the template for democratic cyber diplomacy.<\/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-2015-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2015 \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 2015 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\/20200910195810\/https:\/\/www.igf-d.de\/igf-d-2015\/\">IGF-D 2015 \u2014 VII. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland\uff08\u516c\u5f0fHistorie\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u3001\u5168\u30a2\u30b8\u30a7\u30f3\u30c0\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:\/\/irights.info\/artikel\/internet-governance-forum-deutschland-tagt-am-21-mai-2015-in-berlin\/25445\">Internet Governance Forum Deutschland tagt am 21. Mai 2015 in Berlin<\/a> \u2014 iRights.info (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.auswaertiges-amt.de\/de\/newsroom\/150521-ca-b-international-governance-forum\/271842\">Cyber-Au\u00dfenpolitik. Rede des Sonderbeauftragten f\u00fcr Cyber-Au\u00dfenpolitik im Ausw\u00e4rtigen Amt, Norbert Riedel, beim Internet Governance Forum Deutschland\uff082015-05-21\u8b1b\u6f14\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u30c9\u30a4\u30c4\u9023\u90a6\u5916\u52d9\u7701\uff08Ausw\u00e4rtiges Amt\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dig.watch\/event\/internet-governance-forum-deutschland\">Internet Governance Forum Deutschland\uff08IGF-D\u8a2d\u7acb\u7d4c\u7def\u30fbMessages from Berlin\u306e\u4ed5\u7d44\u307f\uff09<\/a> \u2014 DiploFoundation (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 26 June 2015, 14:00 (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 seventh German IGF (IGF-D 2015) met on 21 May 2015 in the Wappensaal of Berlin&#8217;s Rotes Rathaus, opened by a keynote from Ambassador Norb<\/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":[163,161,160,2363,162,164],"class_list":["post-12657","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-germanyigf2015","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12657","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=12657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}