EU Shocks with Proposed Internet Controls

(New York Times) The European decision to back the rest of the world in demanding the creation of a new international body to govern the Internet clearly caught the Americans off balance and left them largely isolated at talks designed to come up with a new way of regulating the digital traffic of the 21st century. (September  30, 2005)
http://www.nytimes.com/iht/2005/09/30/business/IHT-30net.html

EU Deal Threatens End to US Dominance of Internet

(The Register) The United States and countries around the world are stunned by the European Union's announcement of a policy ending the US-dominated Internet control. the Proposal calls for a "new co-operation model" that would not only oversee public policy matters but also create procedures for changing the internet's "root zone file", managers of country domains (such as .uk or .de), create a new arbitration service for the internet, and produce rules to cover the domain name system (DNS). (September  30, 2005)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/30/eu_deal_wsis/

US Remains Stubborn Over Internet Control

(The Inquirer) The US has refusted to hand over control of the main computers that control the Internet to the UN. Ambassador David Gross, the US coordinator for international communications and information policy at the State Department said that the US will not allow the UN to take over the management of the net, and that he was "deeply disappointed" with the European Union. (September  29, 2005)
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26573