Today (September 17) is the last day of the 5th Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting held in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. Previous meetings have been held yearly, starting in Athens in 2006 and then moving on to Rio, Hyderabad and Sharm El Sheikh. This meeting is the last in the current IGF schedule (although it appears a new 5-year round of meetings is set to be announced).

So what happened in Vilnius? Well I wasn't there so I'm obviously not in any position to answer that question, but according to people who were, not much. To be fair, the IGF isn't supposed to be anything other than a discussion forum, so the fact that nothing concrete comes out of the 4 days of meetings isn't surprising in itself. It's just that as ever, the discussions sound more partisan than constructive.

There's been the usual "ICANN vs governments" debate, with ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom defending his organisation's multistakeholder model. Several prominent members of the ICANN community were in attendance and spreading the good word, including Chairman of the Board Peter Dengate Thrush, newly nominated Board member (and ex French representative to the GAC) Bertrand de la Chapelle and GNSO Council Chair Chuck Gomes.

For an entertaining and offbeat look at what happened during the IGF in Vilnius, I recommend you have a gander at ex ICANN Manager of public participation Kieren McCarthy's entertainingly irreverent blog posts on the subject.