{"id":12695,"date":"2015-10-30T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2015\/10\/30\/en-japanigf-2015-overview\/"},"modified":"2015-10-30T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T05:00:00","slug":"en-japanigf-2015-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2015\/10\/30\/en-japanigf-2015-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Governance Conference Japan (IGCJ) \u2014 2015 Meetings \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-japanigf-2015-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Japan IGF 2015 \u6771\u4eac \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-japanigf-2015-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Japan IGF 2015 \u6771\u4eac \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>In 2015 the Internet Governance Conference Japan (IGCJ) held six open meetings in Tokyo (its 5th through 10th), bringing government officials, engineers, businesses and civil society to one table.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The dominant topic was the IANA stewardship transition away from US-government oversight, tracked all year from proposal briefings to a review of the community&#39;s own public-comment submission; the WSIS+10 negotiations and Japanese IDN rules were also on the agenda.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The roughly bimonthly, open-to-anyone format took root this year, laying the groundwork for Japan&#39;s multistakeholder internet-governance dialogue.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Internet Governance Conference Japan (IGCJ) \u2014 2015 Meetings<\/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-japanigf-2015-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Japan IGF 2015 \u6771\u4eac \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>Internet Governance Conference Japan (IGCJ) \u2014 2015 Meetings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>29 January \u2013 19 November 2015 (six meetings)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>JPNIC conference room (Kanda, Tokyo) and other Tokyo venues (Cisco Systems Japan HQ; Fujisoft Akiba Plaza during Internet Week 2015)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Internet Governance Conference Japan (IGCJ; secretariat: JPNIC)<\/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-japanigf-2015-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Japan IGF 2015 \u6771\u4eac \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. IANA Stewardship Transition \u2014 Tracking a Historic Handover All Year<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: 5th meeting (29 Jan), &#39;On the IANA stewardship transition&#39;; 9th meeting (29 Sep), &#39;Review of the community input submitted on the combined transition proposal&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At the 5th meeting, JPNIC&#39;s Akinori Maemura walked participants through the transition proposals drafted separately for names, numbers and protocols, followed by open discussion [2][4]<\/li>\n<li>The 9th meeting reviewed how volunteers from the IGCJ community had submitted comments on the combined transition proposal \u2014 a case of Japan&#39;s community speaking directly into the global process [2][4]<\/li>\n<li>With the handover heading toward implementation in 2016, IGCJ was one of the few domestic venues continuously tracking its progress [2][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. WSIS+10 and Global Currents \u2014 Direct Dialogue with the Ministry<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: 8th meeting (28 July, Cisco Systems Japan HQ) and others<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mitsuhiro Hishida of the communications ministry (MIC) briefed the community on the WSIS+10 review negotiations, taking questions directly from the floor [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>JPNIC&#39;s Akinori Maemura reported on the NETmundial Initiative and JPRS&#39;s Yuri Takamatsu on APrIGF 2015 in Macao, channelling international debates back into Japan [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>At the 5th meeting, Izumi Aizu (Institute for HyperNetwork Society) examined China&#39;s World Internet Conference, adding a lens on the multipolarisation of governance debates [3][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. IGF Japan FY2014 Debrief \u2014 Restarting the Domestic Report-back<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: IGF Japan FY2014 Debrief (24 March, AP Shibuya Dogenzaka; hosted by IGF Japan, supported by MIC and Tama University&#39;s Institute)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Japanese-language debrief covered the year&#39;s accelerating international scene \u2014 the Snowden-triggered NETmundial meeting and the Istanbul IGF among them [6]<\/li>\n<li>After opening remarks including Jun Murai&#39;s, the programme featured MIC&#39;s domain-name policy committee report (Tatsuya Kawauchi), an explanation of the NETmundial Initiative (Akinori Maemura) and cybersecurity trends (Yasuhiko Taniwaki) [6]<\/li>\n<li>The invitation stated frankly that such debates were &#39;not yet sufficient in Japan&#39; \u2014 a marker on the road toward stronger domestic IGF activity [6]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Homegrown Agenda-setting \u2014 A Security Paper and Japanese Domain Names<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: 8th to 10th meetings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A drafting team used IGCJ as its platform to develop a community paper setting out a shared way of thinking about security [3][4][5]<\/li>\n<li>JPRS&#39;s Hirofumi Hotta, chair of the Japanese Generation Panel, reported at the 9th and 10th meetings on rule-making for Japanese IDN TLD strings [3][4][5]<\/li>\n<li>At the year-end 10th meeting during Internet Week 2015, Tsuyoshi Kinoshita and others reviewed IGCJ&#39;s overall activity and debated its future direction [3][4][5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What exactly is IGCJ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. An open conference on internet governance launched in June 2014 \u2014 unusually, &#39;a gathering of individuals hosted by the community itself&#39; with no named organiser, JPNIC serving as secretariat. Anyone can attend and speak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the big theme of 2015?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The IANA stewardship transition \u2014 moving oversight of the internet&#39;s core resources away from the US government to the global community. Participants studied the proposals together, and volunteers even filed comments into the international process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The rules for Japanese domain names and the community&#39;s security thinking discussed here feed directly into the internet you use daily. And the very fact that government, business and individuals now debated as equals in Japan was a milestone in itself.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Japan IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-japanigf-2015-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Japan IGF 2015 \u6771\u4eac \u2014 About Japan IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Japan 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:\/\/igcj.jp\/meetings\/\">\u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u4f1a\u8b70\uff08IGCJ\uff09\u30df\u30fc\u30c6\u30a3\u30f3\u30b0\u4e00\u89a7<\/a> \u2014 \u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u4f1a\u8b70\uff08IGCJ\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igcj.jp\/meetings\/2015\/0129\/\">\u7b2c5\u56de\u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u4f1a\u8b70\uff082015\u5e741\u670829\u65e5\uff09\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u30fb\u8cc7\u6599<\/a> \u2014 \u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u4f1a\u8b70\uff08IGCJ\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igcj.jp\/meetings\/2015\/0728\/\">\u7b2c8\u56de\u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u4f1a\u8b70\uff082015\u5e747\u670828\u65e5\uff09\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u30fb\u8cc7\u6599<\/a> \u2014 \u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u4f1a\u8b70\uff08IGCJ\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igcj.jp\/meetings\/2015\/0929\/\">\u7b2c9\u56de\u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u4f1a\u8b70\uff082015\u5e749\u670829\u65e5\uff09\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u30fb\u8cc7\u6599<\/a> \u2014 \u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u4f1a\u8b70\uff08IGCJ\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igcj.jp\/meetings\/2015\/1119\/\">\u7b2c10\u56de\u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u4f1a\u8b70\uff082015\u5e7411\u670819\u65e5\u3001Internet Week 2015\u5185\uff09\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u30fb\u8cc7\u6599<\/a> \u2014 \u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u4f1a\u8b70\uff08IGCJ\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaipa.or.jp\/topics\/2015\/03\/749.php\">IGF Japan 2014\u5e74\u5ea6 \u5831\u544a\u4f1a \u958b\u50ac\u6848\u5185<\/a> \u2014 \u4e00\u822c\u793e\u56e3\u6cd5\u4eba\u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30d7\u30ed\u30d0\u30a4\u30c0\u30fc\u5354\u4f1a\uff08JAIPA\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igcj.jp\/about.html\">\u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u4f1a\u8b70\uff08IGCJ\uff09\u3068\u306f<\/a> \u2014 \u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u4f1a\u8b70\uff08IGCJ\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 30 October 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>In 2015 the Internet Governance Conference Japan (IGCJ) held six open meetings in Tokyo (its 5th through 10th), bringing government official<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,140,11],"tags":[163,161,160,669,162,164],"class_list":["post-12695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aprigf","category-igf","category-japan-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-japanigf2015","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12695","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=12695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}