{"id":13096,"date":"2013-06-08T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2013\/06\/08\/en-russia-igf-2013-overview\/"},"modified":"2013-06-08T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T13:00:00","slug":"en-russia-igf-2013-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2013\/06\/08\/en-russia-igf-2013-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"4th Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF 2013) \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-2013-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Russia IGF 2013 \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-2013-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Russia IGF 2013 \u30e2\u30b9\u30af\u30ef \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 4th Russian IGF met on 25 April 2013 at Moscow&#39;s Marriott Grand Hotel, drawing Communications Minister Nikolay Nikiforov, ICANN board chair Steve Crocker and EU Commission VP Neelie Kroes (by video).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Crocker, one of the internet&#39;s founding engineers, delivered a special address on the multistakeholder model, alongside six roundtables: cross-border law, child safety, cybersecurity, e-government and the domain economy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Coming months after the WCIT summit split the world over internet control, the striking twist was hearing the multistakeholder defence argued from inside Russia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>4th Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF 2013)<\/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-2013-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Russia IGF 2013 \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>4th Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF 2013)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>25 April 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Marriott Grand Hotel, Moscow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Award<\/td>\n<td>ICANN board chair Steve Crocker received the Coordination Center&#39;s internet merit award (Virtuti Interneti)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Coordination Center for TLD RU\/\u0420\u0424, supported by RAEC and ICANN; general sponsor: Technical Center of Internet (TCI)<\/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-2013-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Russia IGF 2013 \u30e2\u30b9\u30af\u30ef \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Steve Crocker&#39;s Special Address \u2014 &#39;When Less is More&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Special report &#39;When Less is More: The Past and Future of the Multi-Stakeholder Model of Internet Governance&#39; (11:00\u201312:00)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Since its introduction, the .\u0420\u0424 TLD is still a leading IDN in the entire world&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Steve Crocker (Chair of the Board, ICANN)<\/strong> [3][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Many things that seem common to us today have arisen from the assertiveness, minds and engineering skills of the like of Steve Crocker&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Andrei Kolesnikov (Director, Coordination Center for TLD RU\/\u0420\u0424)<\/strong> [3][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The Coordination Center honoured Crocker \u2014 creator of the RFC series and &#39;an Internet legend&#39; \u2014 with its internet merit award [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>His address argued that light-touch, voluntary coordination rather than intergovernmental control had let the internet grow, and sketched the model&#39;s future [3][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. After WCIT \u2014 Rebuilding the Governance Conversation<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable 5 &#39;Prospects of the Internet governance system&#39; (16:30\u201318:00)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The differing opinions in Dubai show that all stakeholders are trying their best to facilitate Internet development (paraphrased from the official press release)&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Veni Markovski (ICANN VP for stakeholder engagement)<\/strong> [2][4]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Four months after WCIT-12 in Dubai split the world over the new telecom regulations \u2014 with Russia among the signatories \u2014 the post-mortem played out on a Moscow stage [2][4]<\/li>\n<li>Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, IFRI&#39;s Julien Nocetti and PIR Center&#39;s Oleg Demidov debated how the intergovernmental and multistakeholder camps could be reconciled [2][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. The Cross-Border Net and the Law \u2014 &#39;Laws Cannot Keep Up&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable 1 &#39;Transborder or no borders: Internet and its legal aspects&#39; (13:00\u201314:30)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Laws are adopted at a very slow pace while the technology rushes forward&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Lee Hibbard (Council of Europe)<\/strong> [2][3][4]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Bertrand de la Chapelle of the Internet &amp; Jurisdiction Project, ISOC, Microsoft and Russia&#39;s communications ministry wrestled with applying national law to a borderless network [2][3][4]<\/li>\n<li>Council of Europe director general Philippe Boillat declared &#39;there&#39;s no freedom without security,&#39; listing child safety, cybercrime and personal data protection as priorities [2][3][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Child Safety Online \u2014 Beyond Regulation<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable 2 &#39;Creating a playground in the Internet&#39; (13:00\u201314:30)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moscow&#39;s children&#39;s ombudsman, UKCCIS council member John Carr, the creator of the hit cartoon Smeshariki, psychologists and educators discussed building positive online spaces for children rather than just blocking content [2][4]<\/li>\n<li>Russia&#39;s child-protection website blacklist law had taken effect in November 2012, making the regulate-or-cultivate balance an immediate policy question [2][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. Cybersecurity and e-Government \u2014 &#39;A New Culture for Government&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable 3 &#39;Cybersecurity: evasive virtuality&#39; and Roundtable 4 &#39;e-Government: handiness made possible&#39; (14:30\u201316:00)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;A new culture has to be created in the government sector&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Barbara-Chiara Ubaldi (E-Government project leader, OECD)<\/strong> [2][4]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The cybersecurity table seated the UK&#39;s Keir Giles and Li Yan of China&#39;s CICIR alongside ICANN&#39;s Jeff Moss, Cisco and Kaspersky Lab \u2014 a genuinely multipolar panel [2][4]<\/li>\n<li>The e-government table, with Estonia&#39;s e-Governance Academy, Moldova&#39;s deputy minister and the OECD, agreed that secure and convenient digital government requires public-private collaboration [2][4]<\/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. Nothing binding \u2014 its value was the timing. Right after WCIT split the world over who governs the internet, Russian officials, ICANN and European players held the post-mortem in one room.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the most contentious topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Intergovernmental control versus the multistakeholder status quo. Russia had signed the intergovernmental side at WCIT, yet ICANN&#39;s chair defended the multistakeholder model from a Moscow podium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The state-control-versus-multistakeholder fault line contested here still runs through UN negotiations on cybercrime and AI governance \u2014 debates that shape how free your internet stays.<\/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-2013-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Russia IGF 2013 \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 2013 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:\/\/rigf2013.ru\/en\/\">Russian Internet Governance Forum \u2013 2013\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u30ed\u30b7\u30a2\u56fd\u5225\u30c9\u30e1\u30a4\u30f3\u8abf\u6574\u30bb\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\uff08Coordination Center for TLD RU\/\u0420\u0424\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rigf2013.ru\/en\/prog\/?p=list\">Program of Russian Internet Governance Forum 2013\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\/\u0420\u0424\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rigf2013.ru\/en\/press\/index.html%3Fid%3D36.html\">Steve Crocker: &#39;Since its introduction, the .\u0420\u0424 TLD is still a leading IDN in the entire world&#39;\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30d7\u30ec\u30b9\u30ea\u30ea\u30fc\u30b9\u30fb\u958b\u4f1a\u5831\u544a\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u30ed\u30b7\u30a2\u56fd\u5225\u30c9\u30e1\u30a4\u30f3\u8abf\u6574\u30bb\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\uff08Coordination Center for TLD RU\/\u0420\u0424\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rigf2013.ru\/en\/press\/index.html%3Fid%3D37.html\">RIGF-2013 ends in Moscow, Russia\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30d7\u30ec\u30b9\u30ea\u30ea\u30fc\u30b9\u30fb\u9589\u4f1a\u5831\u544a\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u30ed\u30b7\u30a2\u56fd\u5225\u30c9\u30e1\u30a4\u30f3\u8abf\u6574\u30bb\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\uff08Coordination Center for TLD RU\/\u0420\u0424\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 8 June 2013, 15:00 (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 4th Russian IGF met on 25 April 2013 at Moscow&#8217;s Marriott Grand Hotel, drawing Communications Minister Nikolay Nikiforov, ICANN board ch<\/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":[163,161,160,162,2477,164],"class_list":["post-13096","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-russiaigf2013","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13096","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=13096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}