{"id":12801,"date":"2011-10-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2011\/10\/11\/en-usa-igf-2011-overview\/"},"modified":"2011-10-11T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T16:00:00","slug":"en-usa-igf-2011-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2011\/10\/11\/en-usa-igf-2011-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF-USA 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-usa-igf-2011-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"USA IGF 2011 \u30ef\u30b7\u30f3\u30c8\u30f3D.C. \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-usa-igf-2011-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"USA IGF 2011 \u30ef\u30b7\u30f3\u30c8\u30f3D.C. \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The third IGF-USA drew more than 200 participants to Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., on 18 July 2011, with sessions spanning new gTLDs, cloud computing and a 2025 scenario exercise.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Closing the day, NTIA administrator Larry Strickling declared this &#39;a very critical time in the history of the Internet&#39; and urged the audience not to let the newly adopted OECD Internet policymaking principles gather dust.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>With ICANN&#39;s new-gTLD approval and IPv4 exhaustion both landing that year, the record captures a moment when the Internet&#39;s foundations were shifting.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IGF-USA 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-usa-igf-2011-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"USA IGF 2011 \u30ef\u30b7\u30f3\u30c8\u30f3D.C. \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>IGF-USA 2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>Third annual IGF-USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>18 July 2011 (one-day event)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, D.C.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>Over 200 participants (per Elon University&#39;s documentation)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>IGF-USA multistakeholder steering committee (chief catalyst Marilyn Cade)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>Outcomes, including the 2025 scenario exercise, were presented at the 6th global IGF in Nairobi, Kenya (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-usa-igf-2011-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"USA IGF 2011 \u30ef\u30b7\u30f3\u30c8\u30f3D.C. \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. A Critical Moment for Multistakeholderism \u2014 Don&#39;t File Away the OECD Principles<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Closing plenary remarks by NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;We are at a very critical time in the history of the Internet&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Lawrence Strickling (Assistant Secretary of Commerce; NTIA Administrator)<\/strong> [2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;If all that happens with the OECD principles and people file them away in a filing cabinet, then we&#39;ve failed&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Lawrence Strickling (Assistant Secretary of Commerce; NTIA Administrator)<\/strong> [2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Strickling framed the OECD&#39;s June 2011 Internet policymaking principles as ammunition for multistakeholder \u2014 not treaty-based \u2014 solutions, asking the room &#39;what&#39;s the call of action for all of you?&#39; [2]<\/li>\n<li>Citing the 27 adopted ICANN accountability-and-transparency (ATRT) recommendations, he noted that &#39;now the focus turns to ICANN&#39;s management and staff&#39; [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. The New gTLD Expansion \u2014 Hopes and Homework after ICANN&#39;s Approval<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Workshop on new gTLDs, moderated by Frederick Felman (Mark Monitor)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Held weeks after ICANN&#39;s board approved the new gTLD programme in Singapore (June 2011), the workshop heard that expanding the gTLD space would allow a &#39;greater degree of innovation and choice&#39; [1]<\/li>\n<li>As the dedicated DNS-evolution track, it also worked through operational questions such as brand protection [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Scenarios for 2025 \u2014 Regionalization, Government Prevails, Youth Rising<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Scenario breakouts &#39;Youth Rising&#39;, &#39;Regionalization&#39; and &#39;Government Prevails&#39; (about 40 participants each)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Building on 2010&#39;s exercise, participants gamed out three 2025 futures \u2014 a regionally fragmented Internet, tightening government control, and a youth-driven net \u2014 in small breakout groups [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>The results were presented at the global IGF in Nairobi that September, cementing the national-to-global feedback loop [1][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Cloud and Critical Internet Resources \u2014 the Year IPv4 Ran Out<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Workshops on cloud computing and critical Internet resources<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With the IANA central pool of IPv4 addresses exhausted that February, IPv6 migration and DNS security topped the technical agenda; ISOC&#39;s Sally Wentworth moderated the critical-Internet-resources panel [1]<\/li>\n<li>The cloud workshop, led by Georgetown&#39;s Michael Nelson, examined what role governments should play in cloud governance [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. Digital Natives and ICTs for Disaster Response \u2014 Widening the Circle<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Best Practice Forums on digital natives and ICTs in disaster response<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A roundtable on digital natives and a forum on ICTs in disaster response broadened the agenda, with more than ten college-age youth serving as moderators [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>Pew Research&#39;s Lee Rainie keynoted on &#39;Understanding Users&#39; Views&#39;, grounding the day&#39;s debates in usage data [1][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What made this year special?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The Internet&#39;s foundations moved: IPv4&#39;s central pool ran dry in February, and ICANN approved the massive gTLD expansion in June. The forum met weeks later, and the urgency showed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Most memorable line?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Strickling&#39;s warning that if the OECD&#39;s new Internet principles just get &#39;filed away in a filing cabinet, then we&#39;ve failed&#39; \u2014 international principles only matter if they&#39;re used.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why does it matter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. IPv6 migration became every country&#39;s homework, and the new gTLD programme later produced hundreds of new domain endings. This is where the U.S. community first debated both.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is USA IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-usa-igf-2011-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"USA IGF 2011 \u30ef\u30b7\u30f3\u30c8\u30f3D.C. \u2014 About USA IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>USA 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:\/\/igfusa.us\/igf-usa-2011\/\">IGF-USA 2011\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF-USA (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elon.edu\/u\/imagining\/event-coverage\/igf-usa\/igf-2011\/larry-strickling-remarks\/\">Internet Governance Forum \u2013 USA, 2011: NTIA&#39;s Larry Strickling&#39;s afternoon remarks<\/a> \u2014 Elon University Imagining the Internet (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elon.edu\/u\/imagining\/event-coverage\/igf-usa\/igf-2011\/\">Internet Governance Forum \u2013 USA, 2011\uff08\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u5225\u8a18\u9332\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Elon University Imagining the Internet (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/giswatch.org\/en\/country-report\/internet-governance\/united-states-igf-usa\">United States: IGF-USA\uff08GISWatch\u56fd\u5225\u5831\u544a\uff09<\/a> \u2014 APC \/ Global Information Society Watch (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 10 October 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 IGF-USA drew more than 200 participants to Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., on 18 July 2011, with sessions sp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,90],"tags":[163,161,160,162,164,2416],"class_list":["post-12801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-regional-igf","category-usa-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced","tag-usaigf2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12801","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=12801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}