According to The Washington Times, representatives at WSIS voted yesterday to leave oversight of the Internet in US hands. The group voted to create a new international forum to discuss Internet issues, but it will have no policy-making power.
ICANN and the Dept of Commerce currently control the Internet root servers and top-level domains. The proposed new forum would not change that arrangement at all.
This sounds like exactly what the US wanted. Rep. John Doolittle, R-CA, the House of Representatives' leader on this issue, remains skeptical, however. He thinks that the UN's goal is still, "...to wrest control of the Internet."
Stay tuned.
UPDATE: The BBC has the story too. This seems to make the WSIS rather anti-climactic, but CIT will stay on it for you.
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