I’m pretty sure this is news that will interest everybody: U.S. control of the internet may be about to end.
I have no idea how this will affect anything, although I am suspicious of new bureaucracies getting involved in the highly free-wheeling and successful world of the net. The story seems to say there are many unknowns.
People with more technical savvy than myself may have some input, but here is my guess: today, most of the technical decisions regarding the internet are made in the United States because it was invented here. In the future, these decisions will be made by international committees. This is how it works in the telecom world, by the way. A lot of telecom technology was invented in the United States, and international bodies have standardized this technology for the last few decades (so that people can call each other from one country to the other). If so, this change for the internet could have positive impacts. But if we end up with UN-style bureaucracy getting in the way of the internet, we all will rue the day this happened.