The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus has been debating the terms of an appropriate statement or petition to outline a number of common concerns about shortcomings in the present structure and processes of the Internet Governance Forum.

There is really very little between the two documents (though it has been noted that a petition misleadingly implies that the stakeholders of the IGF are beholden to a superior authority). However the main reason why neither document has become an official policy of the IGC is that there has been insufficient input from which the existence of a consensus could be confidently declared in the short time available.

Still, I propose to take the bull by the horns, since the IGF meeting starts in four days and I'm leaving for Athens today, and I feel there should be some form of common statement to which stakeholders can register their agreement, even if the IGC is not amongst them. I guess that means that the petition, a document that I along with others from the IGC had a hand in, gets my recommendation for your signature.

Please read the petition, sign it if you agree, and forward the URL to your friends and colleagues. If you are going to be in Athens, then hopefully there will a paper copy there that can be signed as well (but I really don't know what the IGC will end up deciding, so I can't promise anything there).