Dear all, Last week, Russia held the sixth annual Internet Governance Forum (6. RIGF) in Moscow, a gathering of officials, business people, and other Web “stakeholders” to discuss Internet regulation. It was a very interesting and very good one-day event, held in Lotte Hotel on April 7, and You can check the agenda on www.rigf.ru. Small jokes in the names of the sessions were only the cover for very good and fruitful debates. I will save the best for last. J First session was revelation for me. Called „The Bottom Up and Upside Down“, this session was focused on Internet governance and the influence of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). The participants included Oleg Demidov (Russia), Lucky Masilela (South Africa), Marília Maciel (Brazil), Parminderjeet Singh (India) and Liyun Han (China). At the same time, the session called „We Share the Same Technology (Regardless of Ideology)“ was about the issues of the Internet of Things (IoT). The panel participants included Jari Arkko (IETF), Paul Vixie (Farsight Security, Inc.), Kaveh Ranjbar (RIPE NCC), Pavel Khramtsov (Netoscope) and Andrey Yarnikh (Kaspersky Lab). I skiped this one, but it was very interesting. The panel titled „Your Call Is Very Important for Us“ focused on cooperation between the Internet business community and governments. Vartan Khachaturov, Alexander Shepilov, Michael Yakushev, Dmitry Marinichev, as well as Frederic Donck (Belgium) and Julien Nocetti (France) took part in the discussion. I skiped this one also, because I was participant at the same time on the IDN panel. This year, registries representatives of nearly all national Cyrillic domains attended the forum, and on the session „Expanding the Cyrillic Universe“ we covered problems and challenges in the Cyrillic zone – participants: Mikhail Anisimov (Russia), Iliya Bazlyankov (Bulgaria), Pavel Gusev (Kazakhstan), Saso Dimitrijoski (Macedonia), Yuri Kargapolov (Ukraine), Sergey Povalishev (Belarus) and me. But the opening session was the one that raised bunch of questions and even this kind of articles https://meduza.io/en/feature/2015/04/09/listen-everybody-knows-who-controls-.... To see whole event - http://rigf.ru/en/press/?p=video All best, Dusan --- Ova e-pošta je provjerena na viruse Avast protuvirusnim programom. http://www.avast.com