Other nations upset US won’t relinquish control of “the net” to UN – Far as I can tell, the Department of Commerce hasn’t done *anything* that could be considered discriminatory or otherwise bad in their managment of the DNS infrastructure and the root servers. This talk by developing countries about being shafted when it comes to IP addresses is a joke. There are name registries per region, DNS has a common-carrier status, and there has not been any shortage of IPs, including netblocks being reallocated (i.e. revoked from people who have way too many) as needed. And if a point comes when the DNS system somehow gets untenable, nothing stops other countries from taking the (at this point, stupid) step of creating and using an alternative DNS structure. This is just silly political posturing by people who I would trust far less, at this point, to manage this thing competently and keep politics out of it.