Hendon is also adamant: "The really important point is that the EU doesn't want to see this change as bringing new government control over the internet. Governments will only be involved where they need to be and only on issues setting the top-level framework."

Will a new UN sanction be knocking someone off the DNS tree? Or assigning the TLD to whoever the UN feels should control it? I have very very bad feelings about the UN controlling the root servers and acting on "top-level" issues regarding the Internet.