"Internet governance historically has been the role of the United States, because it created the original system and funded much of its early development."

"Western countries that got onto the Internet first gobbled up most available addresses required for computers to connect, and left developing nations to share a limited supply."

"In 1998, the U.S. Commerce Department selected ICANN, a private organization with international board members, to decide what goes on those lists. Commerce kept veto power, but indicated it would let go once ICANN met a number of conditions. But earlier this year, the United States indicated Commerce would keep that control, regardless of whether and when those conditions were met."

"It has to be done in an appropriate way, so that nobody thinks it is a backdoor approach to have intergovernmental regulation for something that ought not to be regulated," Gross said."

So the Commerce department with veto power is regulating the internet, but intergovernmental regulation violates the not to be regulated internet? I don't like this Gross character already.