Well.... the discussion continuing on AO threads since a fortnight now... Its true that Internet has been developed by America... In fact the same is true for too many other technologies as well... It starts from the verry basic one 'The Electricity' to the latest 'The Internet'... Americans are no doubt world leaders as far as modern technologies are concerned....Unlike The Russian or The Chinese philosophy to develop and carry out the major advancements in hidden cloisters and try to conceal their achievements.. The Americans are more like an open society.. Most of the breakthroughs in the modern technology fields are done in America, not only the Americans have benefitted from them rather the whole world is benefitting.

Internet the wonderful technology, which was initially developed for collaborative research among four american university nodes Univ. of California(LA, SB and Stanford)and Univ.of Utah funded by ARPA later DARPA and then NSF has evolved to a point.. where it can be correctly judged as crucial for worldwide economies and governance(in some cases). Its hard to imagine at this moment if a similar technology had emerged in some other country of the world, then whether it would have succeded to the point where Internet is today or not. No doubt americans are given credit for this.

Now regarding the control of the Internet

Already many suggestions have been made
CENTR response
CENTR - an organisation representing a large number of country-code domains - has responded to the US government's declaration. In a cautious welcome, it agreed that the root files needed to be run in a neutral manner and welcomed its support for ICANN, but pushed that ICANN should focus only on its "core function and limited remit".

Disingenuously, CENTR also says that the stated approach to be taken by the US government "de-politicises the role of the Root Servers and empowers the relevant local Internet Registries". And this, says CENTR will "minimise the need for any procedural intervention by other unrelated parties." CENTR doesn't care who runs the root, so long as they do so neutrally and in a purely technical fashion. As representative for country-code domains, CENTR will be delighted by the US government's statement that it considers different countries as having complete rights over their own country domain.

That statement was a necessity to prevent the rest of the world's governments turning against the US, but it serves CENTR's ends
original source
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07...sh_net_policy/

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/dom...s_06302005.htm


Lets see how Root Zone File Management is handled by IANA/ ICANN
http://www.iana.org/root-management.htm

Here is something regarding the management of Regional Registries
http://www.icann.org/icp/icp-2.htm

The link is quite old though(4 June 2001) , Recently there was the news that this structure has been expanded and diversified. Could not get details of the latest structure though..

Here is some more infomation...
http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000192.html

The main concern of other countries is the control of US Government on ICANN functioning .... if ICANN is allowed to function independently without putting too much political pressure... Its just fine... Nobody wants to go back to fragmented world again.