For other commenters that really haven't heard about what's going on with the ITU, Timothy Lee at Ars Technica covered it (Google's side, at least) pretty well

For other commenters that really haven't heard about what's going on with the ITU, Timothy Lee at Ars Technica covered it (Google's side, at least) pretty well a few days ago: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/google-rallies-opposition-to-un-takeover-of-internet-governance/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/google-rallies-op... ICANN is in no way ideal, but shady ACTA-style agreements that would increase the ITU's power is not an acceptable solution.