{"id":12946,"date":"2016-06-23T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2016\/06\/23\/en-armenia-igf-2016-overview\/"},"modified":"2016-06-23T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T12:00:00","slug":"en-armenia-igf-2016-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2016\/06\/23\/en-armenia-igf-2016-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd Armenian Internet Governance Forum (ArmIGF 2016) \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-armenia-igf-2016-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Armenia IGF 2016 \u30a8\u30ec\u30d0\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-armenia-igf-2016-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Armenia IGF 2016 \u30a8\u30ec\u30d0\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 2nd ArmIGF met in Yerevan on 5 October 2016 under the theme &#39;Internet governance for sustainable and inclusive development&#39;, packing OTT regulation, cybersecurity and the fight against misinformation into one day.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The transport and communications minister opened alongside ICANN VP Mikhail Yakushev, who reported on the IANA stewardship transition completed just four days earlier; the cybersecurity panel mixed international experts with a general.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The line that survives is the organiser&#39;s: neither bureaucracy nor legislation can keep up with the internet&#39;s pace \u2014 the same gap every platform-regulation debate wrestles with today.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>2nd Armenian Internet Governance Forum (ArmIGF 2016)<\/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-armenia-igf-2016-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Armenia IGF 2016 \u30a8\u30ec\u30d0\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>2nd Armenian Internet Governance Forum (ArmIGF 2016)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>5 October 2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Yerevan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Internet governance for sustainable and inclusive development<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>The inter-agency Internet governance working group (IGC), the Ministry of Transport and Communications, and the Internet Society NGO<\/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-armenia-igf-2016-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Armenia IGF 2016 \u30a8\u30ec\u30d0\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Regulating OTT Services \u2014 Newcomers on the Telcos&#39; Turf<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Regulating OTT Services in the Market&#39; (10:20\u201311:30, moderated by Grigori Saghyan)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As messaging and streaming services moved onto telecom turf, the panel \u2014 including ISOC&#39;s Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Donck \u2014 asked whether OTT players should carry licensed operators&#39; obligations [2]<\/li>\n<li>It localised the OTT-regulation debate then brewing around the ITU, prefiguring today&#39;s platform-regulation arguments [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Cybersecurity \u2014 DDoS, Online Casinos and the State&#39;s Role<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Cybersecurity: Today&#39;s Imperative&#39; (15:15\u201316:30)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The development rates of internet are so high nowadays that neither bureaucratic government system nor legislation keep up with it (as reported in English by Arminfo)&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Grigori Saghyan (IGC Secretary; VP, ISOC Armenia)<\/strong> [3][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The panel spanned PIR Center&#39;s Oleg Demidov, ICANN&#39;s Alexandra Kulikova, DNSSEC pioneer Richard Lamb and General Hayk Kotanjyan [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>Press coverage lists DDoS defence, child protection online, online casino operations and state-community cooperation as the key threads [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>Saghyan contrasted Armenia&#39;s horizontal, democratic governance model \u2014 built on network-neutrality principles \u2014 with content control delegated to operators [3][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. The IANA Transition, Four Days After \u2014 History Reported Firsthand<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Talk &#39;IANA Transition Updates&#39; (15:00\u201315:15, ICANN VP Mikhail Yakushev)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>US oversight of IANA ended on 1 October 2016; four days later an ICANN vice-president explained what that meant at a national forum [2]<\/li>\n<li>A small country&#39;s domestic forum received the news of core internet resources leaving single-government control essentially in real time [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Fighting Misinformation \u2014 Confronting Unreliable Sources<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Fighting Misinformation Online&#39; (17:15\u201318:15, moderated by Samvel Martirosyan)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Editors and communications experts debated how to handle unreliable online sources \u2014 weeks before the US election&#39;s fake-news storm made the topic global [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Adjacent sessions covered social networks as business tools, the IT labour market, and the data-protection agency&#39;s enforcement under Gevorg Hayrapetyan, rounding out the &#39;inclusive development&#39; theme [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What did this meeting decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nothing binding \u2014 the second edition of an annual forum where government, business and civil society spend a day on issues like OTT regulation and misinformation, then send the conclusions to the authorities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the biggest news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. An ICANN vice-president reporting on the IANA stewardship transition four days after it completed \u2014 the moment core internet resources left US-government oversight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The organiser&#39;s line \u2014 bureaucracy and law can&#39;t keep up with the internet \u2014 is the exact tension every platform- and AI-regulation debate still turns on.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Armenia IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-armenia-igf-2016-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Armenia IGF 2016 \u30a8\u30ec\u30d0\u30f3 \u2014 About Armenia IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Armenia 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 2016 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:\/\/armigf.am\/2016\/\">ARMIGF 2016\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff09<\/a> \u2014 ArmIGF\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/armigf.am\/2016\/agenda\/\">ArmIGF 2016 Agenda\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u30fb\u5168\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u3068\u767b\u58c7\u8005\uff09<\/a> \u2014 ArmIGF\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arminfo.info\/full_news.php?id=22331&#038;lang=3\">Armenian Internet Governance Forum finished in Yerevan\uff082016\u5e7410\u67087\u65e5\u4ed8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Arminfo\uff08\u30a2\u30eb\u30e1\u30cb\u30a2\u901a\u4fe1\u793e\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isoc.am\/armenian-internet-governance-forum-armigf\/\">Armenian Internet Governance Forum (ArmIGF)\uff08\u7cfb\u5217\u6982\u8981\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Internet Society NGO\uff08ISOC Armenia\u3001.am\/.\u0570\u0561\u0575\u30ec\u30b8\u30b9\u30c8\u30ea\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 23 June 2016, 14:00 (Article published)<\/p>\n<p>Rev. 2 \u2014 updated 17 July 2026, 12:32 (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 2nd ArmIGF met in Yerevan on 5 October 2016 under the theme &#8216;Internet governance for sustainable and inclusive development&#8217;, packing OTT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,3,11],"tags":[163,2423,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-12946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armenia-igf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-armeniaigf2016","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946","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=12946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}