Sorry, I’ll use English this time. Or my interpretation of English, at least.
Though there’s been a lot of talk about the domain names, from a technical perspective, the most important issue is control of the IP address space.
The US (via the IANA) has ultimate control over IP address allocation, but in practice, it delegates big chunks of addresses to local agencies known as the Regional Internet Registries, such as ARIN in the US. ARIN et al then hand out smaller chunks to the local ISPs.
IMHO, the only reason why IANA continues to maintain ultimate control, even though it isn’t making allocation decisions on a day-to-day basis, is the limited number of addresses that are available under the current IP version 4 scheme. We’re going to run in to trouble when, say, SE Asia starts asking for netblocks that are currently allocated to North America because they’re rapidly getting wired up.
When I’m dictator, I’m going to force everybody to (finally) move up to IPv6. Then, instead of the 4 billion addresses that have to go around with IPv4, we’d have 340 undecillion to share:
If the ITU were then in control of allocation, it could just split up the address space roughly according to population, and let the regional agencies take over like they do now.
While we’re at it, there’s no objective reason to maintain the current split scheme between generic top level domains (com, org, net, &c) and the country code TLDs (us, uk, jp, tw.) I say we drop the current generic scheme alltogether, though we could possibly grandfather in current registrants for a limited number of years, and force everybody to go to country codes.
Really, so long as its made explicitly clear that each country/region is to main practical control of its address and name space, there’s no reason to leave the ultimate authority in the hands of the US.