Originally Posted by Webby

Mmmm.... any "authority" which has control of the net will, in one way or other, screw it up - that can be the US government or the UN. It may be fine for the UN to have a democratic "net governance" committee for a while, but once they get their teeth into the net, hell knows what crazy shit may evolve.

Pressure is back on to remove the net from the control of ICANN and this will happen, prob sooner than later. Other nations are objecting to the lack of democratic "management" of the net and control over their own TLD's blah.

Who knows.. it may actually be good for some countries - as long as they stay on the admin/domain side of net governance, but with others, they will prob screw it to shit and back. That is likely to come for "industrialized" countries first - they have nothing better to do than make local laws about shit.