The BBC has picked up on the same themes of yesterday's discussion on multistakeholder policy dialogue that were most significant to me.

Darren Waters reports on Lynn St Amour's remark that the IGF is not inclusive enough, therefore it should not seek to make recommendations (despite that this is part of its mandate in the Tunis Agenda). But rather than being defeatist about it, couldn't we instead endeavour to make it more inclusive?

This is not to downplay the difficulty of doing so. Resistence to change is endemic to the governmental stakeholders (and as we've seen, even to ISOC: though in making that observation my ISOC-AU board member hat is well and truly off).

This is seen again in the fact that the governments are holding their own private meeting today, to which the other stakeholder groups are not invited. Is it of significance that they have chosen the day of the "openness" theme to do so?

I am considering retitling my thesis, "Multi-Stakeholder Governance Networks: the Lost Opportunity of the Internet Governance Forum". I'll decide at the end of this week.