{"id":13090,"date":"2010-06-05T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2010\/06\/05\/en-russia-igf-2010-overview\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T11:00:00","slug":"en-russia-igf-2010-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2010\/06\/05\/en-russia-igf-2010-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF 2010) \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-russia-igf-2010-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Russia IGF 2010 \u30e2\u30b9\u30af\u30ef \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-russia-igf-2010-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Russia IGF 2010 \u30e2\u30b9\u30af\u30ef \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 1st Russian Internet Governance Forum met on 13\u201314 May 2010 at Moscow&#39;s Expocentre, hosted by the Coordination Center for TLD RU with the Telecom Ministry \u2014 over 500 participants attended.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The star attraction was the ceremonial launch of the Cyrillic ccTLD .\u0420\u0424, which had gone live the day before. Six roundtables covered security, law, privacy and critical infrastructure, and a resolution backed the multistakeholder model.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In a country better known for state control of the network, this was the historic start of a national IGF where government, business and civil society talked as equals \u2014 and an early deep dive into internationalised domain names.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>1st Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF 2010)<\/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-russia-igf-2010-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Russia IGF 2010 \u30e2\u30b9\u30af\u30ef \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>1st Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF 2010)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>13\u201314 May 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Expocentre at Krasnaya Presnya, Pavilion 8, Moscow<\/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>500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Coordination Center for TLD RU; co-organised by the RF Ministry of Telecom and Mass Media<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>Forum resolution backing the multistakeholder model, bridging the digital divide, prioritising access and security, and supporting participation in the global IGF and ICANN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Milestone<\/td>\n<td>Ceremonial launch of the Cyrillic ccTLD .\u0420\u0424 \u2014 billed as the first global domain-industry event in Russia and Eastern Europe<\/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-russia-igf-2010-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Russia IGF 2010 \u30e2\u30b9\u30af\u30ef \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. The Launch of .\u0420\u0424 \u2014 A Cyrillic Domain Is Born<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable 4 &#39;Internationalized Domain Names&#39; (13 May, 16:00\u201317:30) and the launch ceremony<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;I typed yesterday \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0437\u0438\u0434\u0435\u043d\u0442.\u0440\u0444 \u2013 that&#39;s great! Seems I&#39;ve been doing it all my life&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Andrei Kolesnikov (Director, Coordination Center for TLD RU)<\/strong> [3][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom handed the .\u0420\u0424 commemorative certificate to Kolesnikov; the domain had gone live at 17:41 on 12 May, with the first sites up at 18:00 [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>Some 80,000 Russian trademarks had already applied for priority .\u0420\u0424 registration, signalling strong demand for Cyrillic domains [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>Mikhail Fedotov of the Russian Journalists Alliance asked whether non-Latin domains might drive &#39;nationalisation and defragmentation&#39; of the internet [3][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Global Internet Security \u2014 Cybercrime Up 30% Year on Year<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable 2 &#39;The Global Internet Security&#39; (13 May, 14:00\u201315:30)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Cybercrime has grown 30% compared with the previous year&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Rod Beckstrom (CEO\/President, ICANN)<\/strong> [3][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The Conficker response \u2014 100+ countries coordinating through ICANN against 3\u20135 million infected PCs \u2014 was presented as a model of international cooperation [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>The Friendly RUnet Foundation reported 9,700 child-exploitation reports in 2009, with 3,300 resources fully or partially removed [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>Kaspersky Lab&#39;s Andrey Yarnykh detailed black-market malware pricing, showing how organised cybercrime had become [3][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Law and Privacy \u2014 &#39;Guided by Common Sense&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable 1 &#39;Legal Issues of Internet Governance&#39; and Roundtable 3 &#39;Balance between Transparency and Protection of Privacy&#39; (13 May)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;In the current volatile Internet reality, it is very hard to think up and enact promptly new laws, so we are also guided by common sense&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Lesley Cowley (CEO, Nominet)<\/strong> [3][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Mail.ru&#39;s Maxim Bobin put provider liability for user-generated content \u2014 then a gap in Russian law \u2014 squarely on the table [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>Practitioners from DENIC, Nominet and academia (Prof. Rolf Weber, Zurich) compared regulatory and self-regulatory balances across Europe [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>The closing wrap-up called for a Russian internet-governance glossary: untranslated English terms were causing genuine mutual misunderstanding [3][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. The Digital Divide and the Resolution \u2014 Drop One Partner and Decisions Go Wrong<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening plenary &#39;Bridging the Digital Divide and the Future of the Internet&#39; (13 May) and closing plenary (14 May)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;IG involves three partners, i.e. government, business and civil society. Once any of them falls out, the decisions made turn out to be flawed&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Mikhail Yakushev (Chairman of the Council, Coordination Center for TLD RU)<\/strong> [1][3][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Our country is most proactive in shaping the global information environment&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Igor Schegolev (RF Minister of Telecom and Mass Media)<\/strong> [1][3][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The adopted resolution called for nurturing the multistakeholder model, making affordable access a priority for regional regulators, keeping access and security on the agenda, and boosting participation in the global IGF and ICANN [1][3][2]<\/li>\n<li>The opening plenary seated US Assistant Secretary Lawrence Strickling, ICANN&#39;s Rod Beckstrom and State Duma security-committee members side by side \u2014 East and West on one stage [1][3][2]<\/li>\n<li>IGF Secretariat coordinator Markus Kummer announced the 5th global IGF (Vilnius, September 2010), plugging the Russian debate into the worldwide forum [1][3][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. So what did the conference actually decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It adopted a resolution backing the multistakeholder model and affordable access. The bigger story: it celebrated the launch of the Cyrillic .\u0420\u0424 domain and started Russia&#39;s first national IGF where government, business and civil society talk as equals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the most contentious topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Whether native-script domains might fragment the internet along national lines \u2014 plus the unresolved question of whether providers are liable for what users post.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. .\u0420\u0424 belongs to the same family as Japanese, Arabic or Chinese domain names: internationalised domain names that let people use the net in their own script. This forum toasted one of the first large-scale rollouts.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Russia IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-russia-igf-2010-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Russia IGF 2010 \u30e2\u30b9\u30af\u30ef \u2014 About Russia IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Russia 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 2010 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:\/\/rigf2010.ru\/eng\/\">First Russian Internet Governance Forum\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u30fb\u6c7a\u8b70\u8981\u65e8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u30ed\u30b7\u30a2\u56fd\u5225\u30c9\u30e1\u30a4\u30f3\u8abf\u6574\u30bb\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\uff08Coordination Center for TLD RU\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rigf2010.ru\/eng\/program.php.html\">RIGF 2010 Program\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u30ed\u30b7\u30a2\u56fd\u5225\u30c9\u30e1\u30a4\u30f3\u8abf\u6574\u30bb\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\uff08Coordination Center for TLD RU\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rigf2010.ru\/eng\/report.php.html\">RIGF 2010 Forum Report\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30d5\u30a9\u30fc\u30e9\u30e0\u5831\u544a\u66f8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u30ed\u30b7\u30a2\u56fd\u5225\u30c9\u30e1\u30a4\u30f3\u8abf\u6574\u30bb\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\uff08Coordination Center for TLD RU\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/russia-igf\">Russia IGF\uff08\u56fd\u9023IGF\u306eNRI\u30ec\u30b3\u30fc\u30c9\u3002\u521d\u56de2010\u5e74\u958b\u50ac\u306e\u8a18\u8f09\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UN IGF Secretariat (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 5 June 2010, 13:00 (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 1st Russian Internet Governance Forum met on 13\u201314 May 2010 at Moscow&#8217;s Expocentre, hosted by the Coordination Center for TLD RU with th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,11,93],"tags":[163,161,160,162,2475,164],"class_list":["post-13090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurodig","category-igf","category-regional-igf","category-russia-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-russiaigf2010","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13090","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=13090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}