19 November 2025

Japan Network Information Center

JPNIC signs a submission of an input to Revision 1 of WSIS+20 Outcome Document by A Technical Community Coalition for Multistakeholderism (TCCM)

At the Virtual Stakeholder Consultation held by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) on November 14, 2025, to gather comments on the Revision 1 of the Outcome Document on the 20-Year Review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20), A Technical Community Coalition for Multistakeholderism (TCCM) presented its views and submitted them to UN DESA. Twenty-five organizations, including JPNIC, signed this statement (additional signatories may be added in the future).

The full text of the submitted comments and the list of signatory organizations can be viewed below:
https://www.tccm.global/input-to-rev-1-of-the-wsis20-outcome-document/

The key points of the statement and submitted comments are as follows:

• Permanent IGF: We strongly support making the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) permanent and strengthening its secretariat. To support a permanent IGF, we believe future funding must be both stable and diverse. We request the UN Secretary-General to initiate future funding efforts following consultations with a broad range of stakeholders.
• Cooperation and Coordination: We consider the IGF to be the ideal center for cooperation and coordination as the primary multistakeholder forum for discussing Internet governance issues. To further enhance the IGF's inclusiveness and relevance, clear linkages should be established between the IGF and other Internet governance ecosystem entities (including National and Regional IGFs (NRIs)), ICANN, the IETF, and UN system agencies dealing with digital issues. Recognizing the IGF's role in promoting agenda-setting and consistency across the entire Internet governance ecosystem, and to strengthen this role, the IGF calls for enhanced collaboration within the Internet governance ecosystem on annual outcomes.
• Avoid Fragmentation: Reaffirming that fragmentation undermines the Internet as a global and inclusive infrastructure. Recommends reinstating the zero draft language rejecting nationally managed or fragmented architectures, and asserts that the Internet must maintain openness, global reach, and interoperability.
• Sustained Collaboration: Supports the commitment from the Revision 1 to maintain and improve sustained coordination among international organizations, intergovernmental bodies, and all other stakeholders to foster inclusive and resilient digital societies.

The revision 2 of the outcome document, incorporating the content of this consultation and the results of subsequent intergovernmental negotiations at the United Nations, is scheduled to be published by the United Nations in early December. It is expected that its content will be adopted as a resolution at the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on December 16 and 17, 2025.