Disaster averted

This report from the NZ herald. The US government has won its battle to retain control of the internet, under a compromise worked out ahead of this week’s United Nations summit on the information society, which leaves the current addressing and traffic direction system intact. Thank God. I can’t think of any organization in the world less qualified to control the internet. Can you imagine the UN with its stable of wacko, tinpot countries running anything as technical as the internet? Half of the committee would be working out how to make life difficult for the US and the other half, like China, Cuba etc would be working out how to stem the information that their citizens have through access to the web. Who’s idea was it in the first place?