"In Montevideo, Uruguay this week, the Directors of all the major Internet
organizations – ICANN, the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet
Architecture Board, the World Wide Web Consortium, the Internet Society, all
five of the regional Internet address registries – turned their back on the
US government. With striking unanimity, the organizations that actually
develop and administer Internet standards and resources initiated a break
with 3 decades of U.S. dominance of Internet governance.
A statement released by this group called for “accelerating the
globalization of ICANN and IANA functions, towards an environment in which
all stakeholders, including all governments, participate on an equal
footing.”
http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/10/11/the-core-internet-institutions-abandon-the-us-government/
