In sudden announcement, US to give up control of DNS root zone

Signs point to fallout from NSA spying that lead to “multi-stakeholder” model.

This is incredibly huge news. However, given the incredible influence of the Government Advisor Council and relative denigration of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency the shift to multistakeholder governance is going to be fraught with sweet words to distract people from the real politik that has largely consumed Internet governance.