[trebuch3t]

The issue is less about the UN trying to take control of Internet authority, it is more about what seems to be growing discontent with the US having all of the control. See the Chinese RFC about "internal internets" mentioned yesterday.

This seems to come up every few years ago, then there's buzz about it, and then everyone realizes that the Internet works just fine and everything goes back to normal.

[grecy]

> the Internet works just fine.

From a technology standpoint, sure.

From a jurisdiction, big brother, we hold all the power standpoint, the current setup of "the Internet" is dysfunctional at best.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

Sorry to be pedantic; it was an Internet Draft, which anyone can submit, not an IETF RFC.

[rmc]

The USA has started throwing it's weight around w.r.t. .com namespace. People are starting to realise that's not right.