AW: [governance] Report of the first Bulgarian IGF discussions

Sun Nov 25 15:46:38 EST 2012

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Von: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org im Auftrag von Iliya Bazlyankov
Gesendet: Sa 24.11.2012 18:15
An: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Betreff: [governance] Report of the first Bulgarian IGF discussions

Dear All,

Please find attached the report of the first Bulgarian IGF discussions.

Kind regards,
Iliya Bazlyankov

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The second Domain Forum and also the first Bulgarian Internet Governance
Forum were held in Sofia, Bulgaria on 15 and 16 November 2012. This
event is unique for the region of the Balkans. It gathered over 100
participants from ten countries, including a significant number of
representatives from Bulgarian Ministry of transport, information
technology and communication.

Domain Forum - 15 November
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Owing to the huge interest in 2011 Domain Forum returned for a second
time this year. Fourteen speakers presented the main topics in the
domain industry: new gTLDs, participation in ICANN, domain market,
technical issues. The community participated by asking questions and
discussing the issues during the breaks.

The new gTLDs were a dominant theme for all participants, introduced by
the presentation on the passing from namespace to names market where the
speaker compared the own TLDs with the well-known company representative
buildings, made by Amadeu Abril i Abril. This topic was followed by the
effect on new gTLDs on ICANN and its community by Stephane Van Gelder.
The media published articles for the challenges and issues of new
domains based on these discussions.

Geo TLDs took a notable part in the discussions, and the community was
encouraged by Dirk Krischenowski to work on '.sofia'. The European
ccTLDs also received a detailed explanation and comparison from Wim
Degezelle.

The domain market was another strong thematic area, started by a
presentation by Giovanni Seppia on the IDNs World Report by EURid and
UNESCO and a topic regarding building synergies between Cyrillic-script
TLDs from Werner Staub. The main conclusion is that it is essential for
Cyrillic TLD registries to work together in order to promote the
visibility of their TLDs. In a presentation by Leonid Todorov, Russia
was given as an example of stable working domain market.

The most expected was the legal presentation by Plamena Georgieva about
dispute resolution in domain names, which included cases from Bulgarian
law and court practice. Later Thomas Rickert focused on the
international issue for the importance of RAA negotiations and their
possible outcome and announced that Registrar Atlas 2013 will include
data from Bulgaria. The community received an invitation to take part in
the study.

The Vice President of ICANN for Europe Nigel Hickson made a general
update on ICANN projects, followed by a topic on the overview of the
ICANN model and the possibility for participation by the Bulgarian
interested parties by Dr. Olivier Crepin-Leblond.

The first day concluded with technical presentations on IPv6 by Ferenc
Csorba from RIPE NCC that included some statistics on the deployment in
Bulgaria and other European countries and also an alternative
authoritative DNS server that is fast, easy to configure and devoted to
the community, given by Jan Kadlec from CZ.NIC Labs.

Internet Governance Forum - 16 November

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The mail goal of the first Bulgarian Internet governance Forum is to
introduce the most important topics to the Bulgarian community.

Hristo Hristov, director of Directorate of Information Technology at the
Ministry of transport, information technology and communication opened
the second day discussions with an overview of the IT policies and
projects of the Bulgarian government. He focused on the Bulgarian IDN
ccTLD '.??' and announced that the government will not close the
Bulgarian application and will continue to participate in the PDP. This
was one of the central topics discussed by the attendees and after that
covered in the press.

A focused discussion about the problems in the development of the
Internet took part for the first time in Bulgaria. Members of the panel
were Justine Toms, an online media and marketing expert; Bisera Zankova,
Bulgarian representative in the Council of Europe; Metodi Drenovski,
member of the board of the Bulgarian Web Association and Biser Ivanov,
member of the board of the Bulgarian Association of Software Companies.

The key elements of the discussion were:
- More active involvement by the institutions with industry and business
organizations in discussing and resolving fundamental issues for
regulation and development of the Internet. For example, it was
mentioned that the business could be advising to the Ministry of
education regarding the exact experts they need.

- Timely updating the educational programs and introduction of adequate
time and training topics for using a computer - from kindergarten,
primary school age to university because after five years, the business
will have three times as many IT personnel needs than today. Even
nowadays they are less than enough.

- The need for a clearer self-regulation for the rights of people on the
Internet; protection of the data and the information of a sensitive
nature; enlightenment and education of the population.

Then, James Lawson from the Council of Europe continued with their
principles and strategies, and he put an emphasis on human rights. He
was followed by a speech from Prof. Wolfgang Kleinwaechter about the
basics of the Internet Governance process. After this presentation, the
attendees learned about the Internet Governance policies in Romania and
Russia from Dr. Eugenie Staicut of ICI Bucharest and Leonid Todorov of
ccTLD.ru

Finally, the event concluded with a discussion on the best legal
framework for Internet development by Veni Markovski and the World
Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) by Dr. Olivier
Crepin-Leblond. The attendees expressed their views that the current
model of Internet Governance is not perfect, but should not be changed.

The topic of Internet Governance is entirely new for the Bulgarian
community. It is essential to be discussed a lot further in order to be
understood the necessity of it. We have put the beginning.

Conclusion
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The Bulgarian Domain Forum and IGF 2012 was extremely well-received by
Bulgarian internet experts. The event woke an immense interest and led
to a debate in the media and the personal websites of local bloggers.

The Bulgarian Internet community had a lot of representatives at Domain
Forum but is not fully active and visible yet. The complete list of
Domain Forum's participants is available here:
http://domainforum.bg/participants/

Bulgarian Domain Forum and IGF 2013 in perspective
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Bulgarian IGF 2013 will take place in November 2013 in Sofia, Bulgaria,
and we will make an announcement as soon as the preparation starts. An
official website will launch soon at http://www.igf.bg <http://www.igf.bg/> 

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