bucy wrote:
Paul Vixie is involved with this ... I'm not sure what the point is.

Vixie explains his motivations here. The point is the demonstrate that the international community can resolve national security and national sovereignty concerns related to US control of ICANN without resorting to UN control of ICANN or fragmenting the DNS. Furthermore, as Canada has demonstrated with their privacy policies, national TLD's need not comply with ICANN regulations when they violate local laws. So there is no problem here with US control of ICANN unless other countries wish to use DNS to coerce people. More info here. Make sure you read Vixie's comment.

RE: European Open Root Server Network with IPv6 Support